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Sensitive Azure Key Vault operations

Description

'Identifies when sensitive Azure Key Vault operations are used. This includes: VaultDelete, KeyDelete, SecretDelete, SecretPurge, KeyPurge, SecretBackup, KeyBackup. Any Backup operations should match with expected scheduled backup activity.'

Rule type: Scheduled
Version: 1.0.4
Declared status: Available
Query frequency: 1d
Query period: 1d
Trigger: gt 0

Declared MITRE coverage

Impact T1485

Declared sources

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

Connectors

AzureKeyVault

Data types

KeyVaultData

KQL query

Original query, unchanged.

let SensitiveOperationList = dynamic(
["VaultDelete", "KeyDelete", "SecretDelete", "SecretPurge", "KeyPurge", "SecretBackup", "KeyBackup"]);
AzureDiagnostics
| extend ResultType = column_ifexists("ResultType", "NoResultType"), 
requestUri_s = column_ifexists("requestUri_s", "None"), 
identity_claim_oid_g = column_ifexists("identity_claim_oid_g", "None"), CallerIPAddress = column_ifexists("CallerIPAddress", "None"), 
clientInfo_s = column_ifexists("clientInfo_s", "None"), 
identity_claim_upn_s = column_ifexists("identity_claim_upn_s", "None"),
identity_claim_http_schemas_microsoft_com_identity_claims_objectidentifier_g = column_ifexists("identity_claim_http_schemas_microsoft_com_identity_claims_objectidentifier_g", "None")
| where ResourceType =~ "VAULTS" and ResultType =~ "Success"
| where OperationName in~ (SensitiveOperationList)
| summarize EventCount=count(), StartTimeUtc=min(TimeGenerated), EndTimeUtc=max(TimeGenerated), TimeTriggered=make_list(TimeGenerated),OperationNameList=make_set(OperationName), RequestURLList=make_set(requestUri_s), CallerIPList = make_set(CallerIPAddress),  CallerIPMax= arg_max(CallerIPAddress,*) by ResourceType, ResultType, Resource, identity_claim_upn_s, clientInfo_s, identity_claim_http_schemas_microsoft_com_identity_claims_objectidentifier_g
| extend timestamp = StartTimeUtc
| extend Name = tostring(split(identity_claim_upn_s,'@',0)[0]), UPNSuffix = tostring(split(identity_claim_upn_s,'@',1)[0]), AadUserId = identity_claim_http_schemas_microsoft_com_identity_claims_objectidentifier_g

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/Azure Key Vault/Analytic Rules/KeyVaultSensitiveOperations.yaml ↗
Commit: 9800e51 ↗
Source identifier: d6491be0-ab2d-439d-95d6-ad8ea39277c5

Additional source files 3

Solutions/Azure Key Vault/Analytic Rules/KeyVaultSensitiveOperations.yamlsource ↗Detections/AzureDiagnostics/KeyVaultSensitiveOperations.yamlmigration-note ↗Solutions/Azure Key Vault/Data/Solution_Azure Key Vault.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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