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CTERA Mass Permissions Changes Detection Analytic

Description

This analytic rule detects and alerts when access denied operations generated by the CTERA Edge Filer goes over a predefined threshold
Rule type
Scheduled
Version
1.0.0
Declared status
Available
Query frequency
5m
Query period
5m
Trigger
GreaterThan 5000

Declared MITRE coverage

Declared sources

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

Connectors

Data types

KQL query

Original query, unchanged.

Syslog
  | where ProcessName == 'gw-audit'
  | extend
      TenantName = extract("\"vportal\":\"([^\"]*)\"", 1, SyslogMessage),
      UserName = extract("user=([^|]*)", 1, SyslogMessage),
      Operation = extract("op=([^|]*)", 1, SyslogMessage),
      EdgeFiler = extract("\"client\":\"([^\"]*)\"", 1, SyslogMessage),
      RootPath = extract("rootPath=([^|]*)", 1, SyslogMessage),
      Share = extract("share=([^|]*)", 1, SyslogMessage),
      LocalPath = extract("path=([^|]*)", 1, SyslogMessage),
      Timestamp = todatetime(extract("\"@timestamp\":\"([^\"]*)\"", 1, SyslogMessage))
  | where Operation in ('ACLAdded', 'ACLDeleted', 'ACLProtectionAdded','chown', 'setsd', 'ACLProtectionDeleted', 'ACEChanged', 'setdacl')
  | summarize Count = count() by UserName, bin(Timestamp, 5m)
  | where Count > 5000

Declared entities

AccountFile

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
90502ac9-19a2-41f0-ba81-e352de90b61b
Additional source files 2Solutions/CTERA/Analytic Rules/MassPermissionChanges.yamlsource ↗Solutions/CTERA/Data/Solution_CTERA.jsonsolution-membership ↗
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Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC

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