IA-T-06Level 1 · Signal
Session token or cookie theft indicators
- Threat
- Neutral
- Level 1 · Signal
A threat signal from the identity provider or session monitoring: a session token issued to the person was reused from a different device, location or browser fingerprint.
Classification
- Risk domain One of 9 areas of human risk, from social engineering to readiness and response. Every signal belongs to one.
- Evidence level
- Maturity practices One capability a program performs, scored on its own: See, Understand, Act, Prove, Govern and Culture.
- Leads to The kind of breach the evidence beneath it points toward, each anchored to a Verizon DBIR or VERIS pattern or an FBI IC3 category.
- NIST CSF 2.0
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- DE.CM-03
- MITRE ATT&CK
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- T1539
The definition, in detail
Definition
It points to a stolen session that bypasses the password and MFA.
Example
A finance lead's authenticated session appears on a second device in another country while her laptop stays in the office.
How it is measured
- Source
- Identity provider & MFA
- Subject
- Person
- Event
- Token anomaly
- Risk domain
- Identity and access
- Provenance
- Verizon DBIR
How it is used
Programs count "Session token or cookie theft indicators" per person from Identity provider & MFA and read it beside the other Identity and access signals; it feeds 0 cohorts, 0 sequences and 1 breach scenario.
A "session token or cookie theft indicators" record is evidence of what reaches the person (the threat side of the model). It says nothing on its own about what the person did.
Technical mappings
Framework mappings; validate for your use case.
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The initial assessment
Find your level.Then fix what matters.
18 questions, about 4 minutes and nothing to type before the result: your level, a score for each practice and three first playbooks, each Easy, Medium or Hard.