T1555 Credentials from Password Stores

This diagnostic statement protects against Credentials from Password Stores through the use of privileged account management and the use of multi-factor authentication.

This diagnostic statement protects against Credentials from Password Stores through the use of privileged account management. Employing auditing, privilege access management, and just in time access protects against adversaries trying to obtain illicit access to critical systems.

This diagnostic statement is related to the implementation of a patch management program. Applying patches and upgrades for products and systems provided by vendors mitigates the risk of adversaries exploiting known vulnerabilities. For example, performing regular software updates mitigates adversary exploitation of password storage locations to obtain user credentials.

This diagnostic statement describes how the organization implement appropriate authentication requirements, including selecting mechanisms based on risk, utilizing multi-factor authentication where necessary, and safeguarding the storage of authenticators like pins and passwords to protect sensitive access credentials.

This diagnostic statement provides protections for production environments. Measures such as network segmentation and access control reduce the attack surface, restrict movement by adversaries, and protect critical assets and data from compromise.

This diagnostic statement protects against Credentials from Password Stores through the use of hardened access control policies, secure defaults, password complexity requirements, multifactor authentication requirements, and removal of terminated accounts.

This control can identify one of this technique's sub-techniques when executed via "Powershell Empire cmdlets seen in command line", but does not address other procedures.

This control may provide a more secure location for storing passwords. If an Azure user account, endpoint, or application is compromised, they may have limited access to passwords stored in the Key Vault.

This control may provide recommendations for auditing and hardening Azure Key Vault to prevent malicious access and segment key access.

This control analyzes host data to detect execution of known malicious PowerShell PowerSploit cmdlets. This covers execution of this technique via the PowerSploit Exfiltration modules on Windows, but does not address other procedures or platforms, and temporal factor is unknown, resulting in a Minimal score.

This control may detect suspicious secret access from Azure key vaults.

This control may alert on credential dumping from Azure Key Vaults, App Services Configurations, and Automation accounts by specific exploitation toolkits. Consequently, its Coverage score is Minimal resulting in an overall Minimal score. The following alerts may be generated: "MicroBurst exploitation toolkit used to extract secrets from your Azure key vaults", "MicroBurst exploitation toolkit used to extract keys to your storage accounts".

This control can protect APIs from adversaries attempting to access credentials.

This control manages symmetric and asymmetric cryptographic keys for cloud services and protects against stealing credentials, certificates, keys from the organization.

This control may provide a more secure location for storing passwords. If an cloud user account, endpoint, or application is compromised, they may have limited access to passwords stored in Secret Manager.

This control may prevent harvesting of credentials from password stores by providing a secure, finely controlled location for secrets storage. This control is only relevant for credentials that would be used from application and configuration files and not those entered directly by an end user.

This control provides minimal detection for some of this technique's sub-techniques, while not providing any detection for the remaining, resulting in a Minimal score.

Microsoft Defender security alerts explain the suspicious activities detected by Defender for Identity sensors on your network, and the actors and computers involved in each threat. Alert evidence lists contain direct links to the involved users and computers, to help make your investigations easy and direct. Defender security alerts are divided into the following categories or phases, like the phases seen in a typical cyber-attack kill chain. Learn more about each phase, the alerts designed to detect each attack, and how to use the alerts to help protect your network using the following links: Reconnaissance and discovery alerts Persistence and privilege escalation alerts Credential access alerts Lateral movement alerts Other alerts License: A Microsoft 365 security product license entitles customer use of Microsoft Defender XDR.