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Tailscale: Unauthorized device connected to control plane

Description

Identifies devices actively connected to the Tailscale control plane (ConnectedToControl=true) but not yet authorized by an admin (Authorized=false). Often benign onboarding but can indicate rogue joins.

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

TailscaleCCF

Data types

Tailscale_Devices_CL

KQL query

Original query, unchanged.

Tailscale_Devices_CL
| where TimeGenerated > ago(1h)
| summarize arg_max(TimeGenerated, *) by DeviceId
| where Authorized == false and ConnectedToControl == true
| project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, Hostname, User, Os, ClientVersion, Created, LastSeen, MachineKey, NodeKey

Declared entities

HostAccount

Source provenance

GitHub

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

File: Solutions/Tailscale (CCF)/Analytic Rules/TailscaleUnauthorizedDeviceConnected.yaml ↗
Commit: 9800e51 ↗
Source identifier: a1b2c3d4-5678-9012-3456-789012340042

Additional source files 2

Solutions/Tailscale (CCF)/Analytic Rules/TailscaleUnauthorizedDeviceConnected.yamlsource ↗Solutions/Tailscale (CCF)/Data/Solution_Tailscale.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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