Elastic Security Detection Rules

M365 Identity Excessive SSO Login Errors Reported

Last updated 22 days ago on 2025-12-10
Created 5 years ago on 2021-05-17

About

Identifies accounts with a high number of single sign-on (SSO) logon errors. Excessive logon errors may indicate an attempt to brute force a password or SSO token.
Tags
Domain: CloudData Source: Microsoft 365Use Case: Identity and Access AuditTactic: Credential AccessLanguage: kuery
Severity
high
Risk Score
73
MITRE ATT&CK™

Credential Access (TA0006)(external, opens in a new tab or window)

↳ Brute Force (T1110)(external, opens in a new tab or window)

False Positive Examples
Automated processes that attempt to authenticate using expired credentials and unbounded retries may lead to false positives.
License
Elastic License v2(external, opens in a new tab or window)

Definition

Rule Type
Threshold Rule
Integration Pack
Prebuilt Security Detection Rules
Index Patterns
logs-o365.audit-*filebeat-*
Related Integrations

o365(external, opens in a new tab or window)

Query
text code block:
event.dataset:o365.audit and event.provider:AzureActiveDirectory and event.category:authentication and o365.audit.LogonError:"SsoArtifactInvalidOrExpired"

Install detection rules in Elastic Security

Detect M365 Identity Excessive SSO Login Errors Reported in the Elastic Security detection engine by installing this rule into your Elastic Stack.

To setup this rule, check out the installation guide for Prebuilt Security Detection Rules(external, opens in a new tab or window).