DET0293: Detect Hybrid Identity Authentication Process Modification
This detection strategy matters because it is tied to attempts to alter hybrid identity authentication processes, where on-premises identities are connecte...
Analyst context for executives and security teams
This detection strategy matters because it is tied to attempts to alter hybrid identity authentication processes, where on-premises identities are connected to cloud services. For executives and security leaders, the business issue is not just identity security; it is whether attackers could weaken authentication, maintain account access, or reach SaaS, office, identity provider, and IaaS environments through trusted identity plumbing.
Executive priority
Prioritize this as an identity and cloud resilience control area. Leaders should ask whether hybrid identity authentication paths are treated as critical infrastructure, whether changes to those paths are logged and reviewed, and whether incident responders can quickly determine if authentication behavior has been modified. This also supports audit and compliance evidence around privileged change control, identity governance, and cloud access monitoring.
Technical view
ATT&CK provides no official detection text for DET0293, so teams should anchor validation on the related technique T1556.007, Hybrid Identity, which spans defense impairment, persistence, and credential access. SOC, identity, and cloud teams should confirm visibility into administrative and configuration changes affecting hybrid authentication, identity synchronization, cloud identity provider settings, office suite authentication behavior, SaaS access, and IaaS identity integrations. Detection engineering should focus on whether normal authentication-process changes are distinguishable from suspicious or unauthorized modification attempts.
Likely telemetry
- Identity provider administrative audit logs
- Hybrid identity or directory synchronization change logs
- Cloud authentication and sign-in logs
- Privileged account activity logs
- Office suite and SaaS admin activity logs
Detection direction
- Validate that authentication-process and hybrid identity configuration changes are logged with actor, time, source, target, and before/after context where available.
- Correlate identity provider, SaaS, office suite, IaaS, and on-premises identity events because the related behavior crosses hybrid boundaries.
- Tune for unauthorized, unexpected, or poorly documented changes rather than all authentication configuration activity, since legitimate identity administration can be common.
- Review privileged identity activity around authentication changes, especially where changes could support persistence, credential access, or defense impairment.
- Identify blind spots where cloud audit logs, directory synchronization logs, or SaaS administrative events are not retained long enough for investigation.
Mitigation priorities
- Treat hybrid identity authentication components as high-value control points with restricted administrative access.
- Require formal change control and independent review for authentication and identity synchronization configuration changes.
- Ensure audit logging and retention are enabled across identity provider, SaaS, office suite, IaaS, and connected on-premises identity systems.
- Prepare incident response procedures for suspected authentication-process modification, including evidence preservation and privileged access review.
- Regularly test whether SOC detections and IR playbooks can identify and investigate unauthorized hybrid identity changes.
Analyst notes and limits
The supplied ATT&CK object is a detection strategy, DET0293, that detects T1556.007 Hybrid Identity. The practical value is in validating end-to-end observability and governance over hybrid authentication paths, because the related technique is associated with persistence, credential access, and defense impairment.
The official object has no description, no detection text, no tactics, and no platforms of its own. Platform and tactic context is derived only from the relationship to T1556.007. Local architecture, identity provider configuration, logging coverage, and change-management practices are required to turn this into environment-specific detections.
Detect Hybrid Identity Authentication Process Modification
No official description is available in the imported ATT&CK source object.
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| Domain | ID | Name | Relationship / procedure |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enterprise | T1556.007 | Hybrid Identity Sub-technique | This object detects Hybrid Identity. |
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| Release | Bundle imported | Object version | Modified | Status | Raw hash |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19.1 | 1.0 | Current bundle | 11441de55fb1… |
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