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High bandwidth in the network (Microsoft Defender for IoT)

Description

'This alert leverages Defender for IoT to detect an unusually high bandwidth which may be an indication of a new service/process or malicious activity on the network. An example scenario is a cyber threat attempting to manipulate the SCADA network.'
Rule type
Scheduled
Version
1.0.3
Declared status
Available
Query frequency
3h
Query period
3h
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.

SecurityAlert
| where ProviderName == "IoTSecurity"
| where AlertName in ("Abnormal Traffic Bandwidth", "Abnormal Traffic Bandwidth Between Devices", "ARP Spoofing", "ICMP Flooding")
| extend ExtendedProperties = parse_json(ExtendedProperties)
| where tostring(ExtendedProperties.isNew) == "True"
| extend DeviceId = tostring(ExtendedProperties.DeviceId), 
         SourceDeviceAddress = tostring(ExtendedProperties.SourceDeviceAddress), 
         DestDeviceAddress = tostring(ExtendedProperties.DestinationDeviceAddress), 
         RemediationSteps = tostring(parse_json(RemediationSteps)[0]), 
         Protocol = tostring(ExtendedProperties.Protocol), 
         AlertManagementUri = tostring(ExtendedProperties.AlertManagementUri)
| project
  TimeGenerated,
  DeviceId,
  ProductName,
  ProductComponentName,
  AlertSeverity,
  AlertName,
  Description,
  Protocol,
  SourceDeviceAddress,
  DestDeviceAddress,
  RemediationSteps,
  Tactics,
  Entities,
  VendorOriginalId,
  AlertLink,
  AlertManagementUri,
  Techniques

Related content

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Source provenance

GitHub

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

Source identifier
caa4665f-21fa-462d-bb31-92226e746c68
Additional source files 2Solutions/IoTOTThreatMonitoringwithDefenderforIoT/Analytic Rules/IoTHighBandwidth.yamlsource ↗Solutions/IoTOTThreatMonitoringwithDefenderforIoT/Data/Solution_IoTOTThreatMonitoringwithDefenderforIoT.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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