---
title: M365 Security Compliance Admin Signal
description: Identifies administrative actions in the Microsoft 365 Security & Compliance Center including cmdlet execution, RBAC changes, security insights, and user...
url: https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/security/prebuilt-rules/rules_building_block/defense_evasion_microsoft_security_compliance_admin_signal
products:
  - Elastic Security
---

# M365 Security Compliance Admin Signal
Identifies administrative actions in the Microsoft 365 Security & Compliance Center including cmdlet execution, RBAC
changes, security insights, and user permission modifications. These events can indicate legitimate administrative
activity or potential defense evasion through security control modifications such as DLP policy removal, compliance
rule changes, or privilege escalation. This building block rule generates security events for correlation, threat
hunting, and telemetry collection.
**Rule type**: query
**Rule indices**:
- logs-o365.audit-*
- filebeat-*

**Rule Severity**: low
**Risk Score**: 21
**Runs every**: 
**Searches indices from**: `now-9m`
**Maximum alerts per execution**: 100
**References**:
- [[https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/purview/audit-log-activities](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/purview/audit-log-activities)](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/purview/audit-log-activities)
- [[https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office-365-management-api/office-365-management-activity-api-schema#enum-auditlogrecordtype---type-edmint32](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office-365-management-api/office-365-management-activity-api-schema#enum-auditlogrecordtype---type-edmint32)](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office-365-management-api/office-365-management-activity-api-schema#enum-auditlogrecordtype---type-edmint32)

**Tags**:
- Domain: Cloud
- Domain: SaaS
- Data Source: Microsoft 365
- Data Source: Microsoft 365 Audit Logs
- Data Source: Microsoft Purview
- Use Case: Threat Detection
- Use Case: Configuration Auditing
- Tactic: Defense Evasion
- Tactic: Persistence
- Rule Type: BBR
- Rule Type: Custom Query (KQL)
- Platform: Microsoft 365
- Service: Microsoft Purview

**Version**: 3
**Rule authors**:
- Elastic

**Rule license**: Elastic License v2

### Additional notes

For information on troubleshooting the maximum alerts warning please refer to this [guide](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/security/current/alerts-ui-monitor.html#troubleshoot-max-alerts).

## Rule Query

```kuery
event.dataset:o365.audit and
    event.code:(SecurityComplianceCenterEOPCmdlet or SecurityComplianceInsights or SecurityComplianceRBAC or SecurityComplianceUserChange)
```

**Framework:** MITRE ATT&CK
- Tactic:
  - Name: Defense Evasion
  - Id: TA0005
  - Reference URL: [[https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0005/](https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0005/)](https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0005/)
- Technique:
  - Name: Impair Defenses
  - Id: T1562
  - Reference URL: [[https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1562/](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1562/)](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1562/)
- Sub Technique:
  - Name: Disable or Modify Tools
  - Id: T1562.001
  - Reference URL: [[https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1562/001/](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1562/001/)](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1562/001/)

**Framework:** MITRE ATT&CK
- Tactic:
  - Name: Persistence
  - Id: TA0003
  - Reference URL: [[https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0003/](https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0003/)](https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0003/)
- Technique:
  - Name: Account Manipulation
  - Id: T1098
  - Reference URL: [[https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1098/](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1098/)](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1098/)

**Framework:** MITRE ATT&CK
- Tactic:
  - Name: Execution
  - Id: TA0002
  - Reference URL: [[https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0002/](https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0002/)](https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0002/)
- Technique:
  - Name: Command and Scripting Interpreter
  - Id: T1059
  - Reference URL: [[https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1059/](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1059/)](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1059/)
- Sub Technique:
  - Name: PowerShell
  - Id: T1059.001
  - Reference URL: [[https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1059/001/](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1059/001/)](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1059/001/)