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Defender Alert Evidence

Description

This analytic rule is looking for new alert evidence from Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. The intent is to create entries in the SecurityAlert table for every new alert evidence attached to an entity of type Device or User monitored by Defender for Endpoint.
Rule type
Scheduled
Version
1.0.0
Declared status
Available
Query frequency
60m
Query period
60m
Trigger
GreaterThan 0

Declared MITRE coverage

Declared sources

Metadata from the source file. No dependencies inferred from KQL.

Connectors

Data types

KQL query

Original query, unchanged.

AlertEvidence
| where EntityType in ("Device", "User")

Declared entities

AccountIPHost

Related content

Links established from declared identifiers and solution manifests.

Source provenance

GitHub

Displayed values come from files in Azure/Azure-Sentinel. They describe the published template, not your workspace configuration.

Source identifier
8138863e-e55f-4f02-ac94-72796e203d27
Additional source files 1Solutions/Vectra XDR/Analytic Rules/Defender_Alert_Evidence.yamlsource ↗
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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