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AWSCloudTrail - SAML update identity provider

Description

Detects updates to AWS SAML identity provider configuration. Unauthorized changes can allow adversaries to issue trusted federation tokens and gain persistent or privileged access.

Rule type: Scheduled
Version: 1.0.2
Declared status: Available
Query frequency: 1d
Query period: 1d
Trigger: gt 0

Declared MITRE coverage

Persistence T1078

Declared sources

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

Connectors

AWS

Data types

AWSCloudTrail

KQL query

Original query, unchanged.

AWSCloudTrail
| where EventName == "UpdateSAMLProvider" and isempty(ErrorCode) and isempty(ErrorMessage)
| extend UserIdentityArn = iif(isempty(UserIdentityArn), tostring(parse_json(Resources)[0].ARN), UserIdentityArn)
| extend UserName = tostring(split(UserIdentityArn, '/')[-1])
| extend AccountName = case( UserIdentityPrincipalid == "Anonymous", "Anonymous", isempty(UserIdentityUserName), UserName, UserIdentityUserName)
| extend AccountName = iif(AccountName contains "@", tostring(split(AccountName, '@', 0)[0]), AccountName),
  AccountUPNSuffix = iif(AccountName contains "@", tostring(split(AccountName, '@', 1)[0]), "")

Declared entities

AccountIP

Source provenance

GitHub

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

File: Solutions/Amazon Web Services/Analytic Rules/AWS_SAMLUpdateIdentity.yaml ↗
Commit: 9800e51 ↗
Source identifier: bce1dcba-4948-414d-8838-6385afb9d496

Additional source files 2

Solutions/Amazon Web Services/Analytic Rules/AWS_SAMLUpdateIdentity.yamlsource ↗Solutions/Amazon Web Services/Data/Solution_AmazonWebServices.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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