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Security Event log cleared

Description

'Checks for event id 1102 which indicates the security event log was cleared. It uses Event Source Name "Microsoft-Windows-Eventlog" to avoid generating false positives from other sources, like AD FS servers for instance.'
Rule type
Scheduled
Version
1.1.5
Declared status
Available
Query frequency
1d
Query period
1d
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.

(union isfuzzy=true
(
SecurityEvent
| where EventID == 1102 and EventSourceName =~ "Microsoft-Windows-Eventlog"
| summarize StartTimeUtc = min(TimeGenerated), EndTimeUtc = max(TimeGenerated), EventCount = count() by Computer, Account, EventID, Activity
),
(
WindowsEvent
| where EventID == 1102 and Provider =~ "Microsoft-Windows-Eventlog"
| extend Account =  strcat(tostring(EventData.SubjectDomainName),"\\", tostring(EventData.SubjectUserName))
| extend Activity= "1102 - The audit log was cleared."
| summarize StartTimeUtc = min(TimeGenerated), EndTimeUtc = max(TimeGenerated), EventCount = count() by Computer, Account, EventID, Activity
)
)
| extend Name=tostring(split(Account, "@")[0]), UPNSuffix=tostring(split(Account, "@")[1])
| extend HostName = iif(Computer has '.',substring(Computer,0,indexof(Computer,'.')),Computer) , DnsDomain = iif(Computer has '.',substring(Computer,indexof(Computer,'.')+1),'')

Declared entities

AccountHost

Related content

Links established from declared identifiers and solution manifests.

Source provenance

GitHub

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Source identifier
80da0a8f-cfe1-4cd0-a895-8bc1771a720e
Additional source files 3Solutions/Endpoint Threat Protection Essentials/Analytic Rules/SecurityEventLogCleared.yamlsource ↗Detections/SecurityEvent/SecurityEventLogCleared.yamlmigration-note ↗Solutions/Endpoint Threat Protection Essentials/Data/Solution_EndpointThreatProtectionEssentials.jsonsolution-membership ↗
GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING

Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC

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