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Netskope - Heavy Personal Cloud Storage Usage (Shadow IT)
Description
Detects heavy usage of personal cloud storage applications like personal Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive personal, etc. Indicates potential Shadow IT or data leakage risk.
- Rule type
- Scheduled
- Version
- 1.0.0
- Declared status
- Available
- Query frequency
- 1h
- Query period
- 1h
- Trigger
- gt 0
Declared MITRE coverage
Declared sources
Metadata from the source file. No dependencies inferred from KQL.
Connectors
Data types
KQL query
Original query, unchanged.
let heavyUsageThresholdMB = 500;
NetskopeWebTransactions_CL
| where TimeGenerated > ago(1h)
| where isnotempty(CsUsername) and isnotempty(XCsApp)
| where XCsApp has_any ('Dropbox', 'Google Drive', 'OneDrive', 'Box', 'iCloud', 'pCloud', 'MEGA', 'MediaFire', 'WeTransfer')
| where XCsAppInstanceTag contains 'Personal'
or XCsAppInstanceName contains 'Personal'
or XCsAppTags contains 'Unsanctioned'
or not(XCsAppTags contains 'Enterprise')
| summarize
TotalBytes = sum(Bytes),
UploadBytes = sum(CsBytes),
DownloadBytes = sum(ScBytes),
FileCount = dcount(XCsAppObjectName),
Files = make_set(XCsAppObjectName, 10),
Activities = make_set(XCsAppActivity),
EventCount = count()
by CsUsername, XCsApp, XCsAppCategory, XCsAppInstanceName, XCsAppTags, XCDevice, XCCountry
| extend
TotalMB = round(TotalBytes / 1048576.0, 2),
UploadMB = round(UploadBytes / 1048576.0, 2),
DownloadMB = round(DownloadBytes / 1048576.0, 2)
| where TotalMB > heavyUsageThresholdMB or FileCount > 50
| project
TimeGenerated = now(),
User = CsUsername,
CloudApplication = XCsApp,
AppCategory = XCsAppCategory,
AppInstance = XCsAppInstanceName,
AppTags = XCsAppTags,
TotalDataMB = TotalMB,
UploadMB,
DownloadMB,
FileCount,
Files,
Activities,
Device = XCDevice,
Country = XCCountry,
EventCount
Declared entities
Related content
Links established from declared identifiers and solution manifests.
Source provenance
GitHubDisplayed values come from files in Azure/Azure-Sentinel. They describe the published template, not your workspace configuration.
- Commit
9800e51↗- Source identifier
272f9bca-5fd0-4413-b494-03b2d9f0bb9b
GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING
Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC