Okta admin privilege granted
An Okta administrator role was granted to a user or group.
What it detects
An Okta administrator role was granted to a user or group. Assigning admin privilege is a direct privilege-escalation and persistence action; when it happens outside a known change it can indicate an attacker cementing control of the identity provider.
MITRE ATT&CK mapping
- T1098Account Manipulation· Persistence
False positives and triage
Legitimate onboarding of new administrators looks identical. Confirm the grant matches an approved request and that the granting actor is authorized to assign admin roles.
The rule
Declarative YAML read by the detection engine — data, never executed. Confidence 75%. Source: rules/cloud/okta_admin_privilege_granted.yaml, licensed under the Apache License 2.0.
id: cloud.okta.admin_privilege_granted
version: 1.0.0
status: stable
severity: high
confidence: 0.75
platforms: [application]
mitre_techniques: [T1098]
description: |
An Okta administrator role was granted to a user or group. Assigning admin privilege is
a direct privilege-escalation and persistence action; when it happens outside a known
change it can indicate an attacker cementing control of the identity provider.
match:
provider: Okta
event_action_any:
- user.account.privilege.grant
- group.privilege.grant
- user.account.privilege.grant.admin
correlation_keys: [user_name]
false_positive_guidance: |
Legitimate onboarding of new administrators looks identical. Confirm the grant matches
an approved request and that the granting actor is authorized to assign admin roles.
Related detections
Run this rule on your own logs — offline
KIROSEC runs this rule and the rest of the library over Windows, Linux, macOS and cloud audit logs on the analyst's own machine. Every alert links to the events that raised it, and nothing leaves the device.