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Microsoft.Insights/diagnosticSettings/delete

CSP: Azure
Techniques:

Event

Deletes an Azure Monitor diagnostic setting, stopping the forwarding of logs and metrics to a configured destination.

Security Context

  • Impairing defenses allows adversaries to operate freely by removing security controls that would otherwise detect or block their activity.
  • Modifications to logging and monitoring infrastructure can create blind spots that allow adversary activity to go undetected.

Log Source

Azure Activity Log

Sample Event

MITRE ATT&CK Mapping

Tactics: Defense Evasion

Techniques:
  • T1562 — Impair Defenses — Adversaries may maliciously modify components of a victim environment in order to hinder or disable defensive mechanisms. This not only involves impairing preventative defenses, such as firewalls and anti-virus, but also detection capabilities that defenders can use to audit activity and identify...