Elastic Security Detection Rules

AWS RDS Security Group Deletion

Last updated 7 months ago on 2025-01-15
Created 4 years ago on 2021-06-05

About

Identifies the deletion of an Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Security group.
Tags
Domain: CloudData Source: AWSData Source: Amazon Web ServicesData Source: AWS RDSTactic: ImpactLanguage: kuery
Severity
low
Risk Score
21
MITRE ATT&CK™

Impact (TA0040)(opens in a new tab or window)

↳ Account Access Removal (T1531)(opens in a new tab or window)

False Positive Examples
An RDS security group deletion may be done by a system or network administrator. Verify whether the user identity, user agent, and/or hostname should be making changes in your environment. Security group deletions by unfamiliar users or hosts should be investigated. If known behavior is causing false positives, it can be exempted from the rule.
License
Elastic License v2(opens in a new tab or window)

Definition

Rule Type
Query (Kibana Query Language)
Integration Pack
Prebuilt Security Detection Rules
Index Patterns
filebeat-*logs-aws.cloudtrail-*
Related Integrations

aws(opens in a new tab or window)

Query
event.dataset:aws.cloudtrail and event.provider:rds.amazonaws.com and event.action:DeleteDBSecurityGroup and event.outcome:success

Install detection rules in Elastic Security

Detect AWS RDS Security Group Deletion 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(opens in a new tab or window).