Authentication

Authentication events report authentication session activities such as user attempts a logon or logoff, successfully or otherwise.

Attributes

Caption	Name	Type	Description
Activity ID	`activity_id`	Integer	The normalized identifier of the activity that triggered the event. `0`: Unknown (`UNKNOWN`) `1`: Logon (`LOGON`) `2`: Logoff (`LOGOFF`) `3`: Authentication Ticket (`AUTHENTICATION_TICKET`) `4`: Service Ticket Request (`SERVICE_TICKET_REQUEST`) `5`: Service Ticket Renew (`SERVICE_TICKET_RENEW`) `6`: Preauth (`PREAUTH`) `99`: Other (`OTHER`)
Activity	`activity_name`	String	The event activity name, as defined by the activity_id.
Actor	`actor`	Actor[]	The actor that requested the authentication.
API Details	`api`	API[]	Describes details about a typical API (Application Programming Interface) call.
Authentication Factors	`auth_factors`	Authentication Factor[]	Describes a category of methods used for identity verification in an authentication attempt.
Auth Protocol	`auth_protocol`	String	The authentication protocol as defined by the caption of 'auth_protocol_id'. In the case of 'Other', it is defined by the event source.
Auth Protocol ID	`auth_protocol_id`	Integer	The normalized identifier of the authentication protocol used to create the user session. `0`: Unknown (`UNKNOWN`) `1`: NTLM (`NTLM`) `10`: RADIUS (`RADIUS`) `2`: Kerberos (`KERBEROS`) `3`: Digest (`DIGEST`) `4`: OpenID (`OPENID`) `5`: SAML (`SAML`) `6`: OAUTH 2.0 (`OAUTH_2.0`) `7`: PAP (`PAP`) `8`: CHAP (`CHAP`) `9`: EAP (`EAP`) `99`: Other (`OTHER`)
Category	`category_name`	String	The event category name, as defined by category_uid value.
Category ID	`category_uid`	Integer	The category unique identifier of the event. `3`: Identity & Access Management (`IDENTITY_&_ACCESS_MANAGEMENT`)
Certificate	`certificate`	Digital Certificate[]	The certificate associated with the authentication or pre-authentication (Kerberos).
Class	`class_name`	String	The event class name, as defined by class_uid value.
Class ID	`class_uid`	Integer	The unique identifier of a class. A class describes the attributes available in an event. `3002`: Authentication (`AUTHENTICATION`)
Cloud	`cloud`	Cloud[]	Describes details about the Cloud environment where the event was originally created or logged.
Confidence	`confidence`	Integer	The confidence of the reported event severity as a percentage: 0%-100%. 🚧 WARNING: DEPRECATED Confidence has been deprecated since 1.1.0. Deprecated in upgrade from ocsf-0.31.1 to qdm-1.1.0
Count	`count`	Integer	The number of times that events in the same logical group occurred during the event Start Time to End Time period.
Data	`data`	JSON	Additional data that is associated with the event. 🚧 WARNING: DEPRECATED Data has been deprecated since 1.1.0. Deprecated in upgrade from ocsf-0.31.1 to qdm-1.1.0
Device	`device`	Device[]	An addressable device, computer system or host.
Destination Endpoint	`dst_endpoint`	Network Endpoint[]	The endpoint to which the authentication was targeted.
Duration	`duration`	Long	The event duration or aggregate time, the amount of time the event covers from `start_time` to `end_time` in milliseconds.
End Time	`end_time`	Timestamp	The end time of a time period, or the time of the most recent event included in the aggregate event.
Enrichments	`enrichments`	Enrichment[]	The additional information from an external data source, which is associated with the event or a finding. For example add location information for the IP address in the DNS answers: `[{"name": "answers.ip", "value": "92.24.47.250", "type": "location", "data": {"city": "Socotra", "continent": "Asia", "coordinates": [-25.4153, 17.0743], "country": "YE", "desc": "Yemen"}}]`
HTTP Request	`http_request`	HTTP Request[]	Details about the underlying HTTP request.
Cleartext Credentials	`is_cleartext`	Boolean	Indicates whether the credentials were passed in clear text. Note: True if the credentials were passed in a clear text protocol such as FTP or TELNET, or if Windows detected that a user's logon password was passed to the authentication package in clear text.
Multi Factor Authentication	`is_mfa`	Boolean	Indicates whether Multi Factor Authentication was used during authentication.
New Logon	`is_new_logon`	Boolean	Indicates logon is from a device not seen before or a first time account logon.
Remote	`is_remote`	Boolean	The attempted authentication is over a remote connection.
Logon Process	`logon_process`	Linux Process[]	The trusted process that validated the authentication credentials.
Logon Type	`logon_type`	String	The logon type, normalized to the caption of the logon_type_id value. In the case of 'Other', it is defined by the event source.
Logon Type ID	`logon_type_id`	Integer	The normalized logon type identifier. `0`: Unknown (`UNKNOWN`) `1`: System (`SYSTEM`) `10`: Remote Interactive (`REMOTE_INTERACTIVE`) `11`: Cached Interactive (`CACHED_INTERACTIVE`) `12`: Cached Remote Interactive (`CACHED_REMOTE_INTERACTIVE`) `13`: Cached Unlock (`CACHED_UNLOCK`) `2`: Interactive (`INTERACTIVE`) `3`: Network (`NETWORK`) `4`: Batch (`BATCH`) `5`: OS Service (`OS_SERVICE`) `7`: Unlock (`UNLOCK`) `8`: Network Cleartext (`NETWORK_CLEARTEXT`) `9`: New Credentials (`NEW_CREDENTIALS`) `99`: Other (`OTHER`)
Message	`message`	String	The description of the event/finding, as defined by the source.
Metadata	`metadata`	Metadata[]	The metadata associated with the event or a finding.
Observables	`observables`	Observable[]	The observables associated with the event or a finding.
OSINT	`osint`	OSINT[]	The OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) object contains details related to an indicator such as the indicator itself, related indicators, geolocation, registrar information, subdomains, analyst commentary, and other contextual information. This information can be used to further enrich a detection or finding by providing decisioning support to other analysts and engineers.
Raw Data	`raw_data`	JSON	The event data as received from the event source.
Record ID	`record_id`	String	Unique idenifier for the event
Service	`service`	Service[]	The service or gateway to which the user or process is being authenticated
Session	`session`	Session[]	The authenticated user or service session.
Severity	`severity`	String	The event/finding severity, normalized to the caption of the severity_id value. In the case of 'Other', it is defined by the source.
Severity ID	`severity_id`	Integer	The normalized identifier of the event/finding severity. The normalized severity is a measurement the effort and expense required to manage and resolve an event or incident. Smaller numerical values represent lower impact events, and larger numerical values represent higher impact events. `0`: Unknown (`UNKNOWN`) `1`: Informational (`INFORMATIONAL`) `2`: Low (`LOW`) `3`: Medium (`MEDIUM`) `4`: High (`HIGH`) `5`: Critical (`CRITICAL`) `6`: Fatal (`FATAL`) `99`: Other (`OTHER`)
Source Endpoint	`src_endpoint`	Network Endpoint[]	Details about the source of the IAM activity.
Start Time	`start_time`	Timestamp	The start time of a time period, or the time of the least recent event included in the aggregate event.
Status	`status`	String	The event status, normalized to the caption of the status_id value. In the case of 'Other', it is defined by the event source.
Status Code	`status_code`	String	The event status code, as reported by the event source. For example, in a Windows Failed Authentication event, this would be the value of 'Failure Code', e.g. 0x18.
Status Details	`status_detail`	String	The details about the authentication request. For example, possible details for Windows logon or logoff events are: Success LOGOFF_USER_INITIATED LOGOFF_OTHER Failure USER_DOES_NOT_EXIST INVALID_CREDENTIALS ACCOUNT_DISABLED ACCOUNT_LOCKED_OUT PASSWORD_EXPIRED
Status ID	`status_id`	Integer	The normalized identifier of the event status. `0`: Unknown (`UNKNOWN`) `1`: Success (`SUCCESS`) `2`: Failure (`FAILURE`) `99`: Other (`OTHER`)
Event Time	`time`	Timestamp	The normalized event occurrence time or the finding creation time.
Timezone Offset	`timezone_offset`	Integer	The number of minutes that the reported event `time` is ahead or behind UTC, in the range -1,080 to +1,080.
Type Name	`type_name`	String	The event/finding type name, as defined by the type_uid.
Type ID	`type_uid`	Long	The event/finding type ID. It identifies the event's semantics and structure. The value is calculated by the logging system as: `class_uid * 100 + activity_id`. `300200`: Authentication: Unknown (`AUTHENTICATION_UNKNOWN`) `300201`: Authentication: Logon (`AUTHENTICATION_LOGON`) `300202`: Authentication: Logoff (`AUTHENTICATION_LOGOFF`) `300203`: Authentication: Authentication Ticket (`AUTHENTICATION_AUTHENTICATION_TICKET`) `300204`: Authentication: Service Ticket Request (`AUTHENTICATION_SERVICE_TICKET_REQUEST`) `300205`: Authentication: Service Ticket Renew (`AUTHENTICATION_SERVICE_TICKET_RENEW`) `300206`: Authentication: Preauth (`AUTHENTICATION_PREAUTH`) `300299`: Authentication: Other (`AUTHENTICATION_OTHER`)
Unmapped Data	`unmapped`	Unmapped[]	The attributes that are not mapped to the event schema. The names and values of those attributes are specific to the event source.
User	`user`	User[]	The subject (user/role or account) to authenticate.

Relationships

Outbound Relationships

Authentication references the following objects and events in its attributes:

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