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Compliance Finding (2003)

Compliance Finding events describe results of evaluations performed against resources, to check compliance with various Industry Frameworks or Security Standards such as NIST SP 800-53, CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark v1.4.0, ISO/IEC 27001 etc.

  • Category: Findings
  • Extends: finding
  • UID: 2003

Attributes

Section titled “Attributes”

Classification

Section titled “Classification”

activity_id

  • Type: integer_t
  • Requirement: required
  • Values:
    • 0 - Unknown: The event activity is unknown.
    • 1 - Create: A finding was created.
    • 2 - Update: A finding was updated.
    • 3 - Close: A finding was closed.
    • 99 - Other: The event activity is not mapped. See the activity_name attribute, which contains a data source specific value.

The normalized identifier of the finding activity.

category_uid

  • Type: integer_t
  • Requirement: required
  • Values:
    • 2 - Findings: Findings events report findings, detections, and possible resolutions of malware, anomalies, or other actions performed by security products.

The category unique identifier of the event.

class_uid

  • Type: integer_t
  • Requirement: required
  • Values:
    • 2003 - Compliance Finding: Compliance Finding events describe results of evaluations performed against resources, to check compliance with various Industry Frameworks or Security Standards such as NIST SP 800-53, CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark v1.4.0, ISO/IEC 27001 etc.

The unique identifier of a class. A Class describes the attributes available in an event.

severity_id

  • Type: integer_t
  • Requirement: required
  • Values:
    • 0 - Unknown: The event/finding severity is unknown.
    • 1 - Informational: Informational message. No action required.
    • 2 - Low: The user decides if action is needed.
    • 3 - Medium: Action is required but the situation is not serious at this time.
    • 4 - High: Action is required immediately.
    • 5 - Critical: Action is required immediately and the scope is broad.
    • 6 - Fatal: An error occurred but it is too late to take remedial action.
    • 99 - Other: The event/finding severity is not mapped. See the severity attribute, which contains a data source specific value.

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.

type_uid

  • Type: long_t
  • Requirement: required
  • Values:
    • 200300 - Compliance Finding: Unknown
    • 200301 - Compliance Finding: Create: A finding was created.
    • 200302 - Compliance Finding: Update: A finding was updated.
    • 200303 - Compliance Finding: Close: A finding was closed.
    • 200399 - Compliance Finding: Other

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.

activity_name

  • Type: string_t
  • Requirement: optional

The finding activity name, as defined by the activity_id.

category_name

  • Type: string_t
  • Requirement: optional

The event category name, as defined by category_uid value: Findings.

class_name

  • Type: string_t
  • Requirement: optional

The event class name, as defined by class_uid value: Compliance Finding.

severity

  • Type: string_t
  • Requirement: optional

The event/finding severity, normalized to the caption of the severity_id value. In the case of ‘Other’, it is defined by the source.

type_name

  • Type: string_t
  • Requirement: optional

The event/finding type name, as defined by the type_uid.

Context

Section titled “Context”

metadata

The metadata associated with the event or a finding.

confidence_id

  • Type: integer_t
  • Requirement: recommended
  • Values:
    • 0 - Unknown: The normalized confidence is unknown.
    • 1 - Low
    • 2 - Medium
    • 3 - High
    • 99 - Other: The confidence is not mapped to the defined enum values. See the confidence attribute, which contains a data source specific value.

The normalized confidence refers to the accuracy of the rule that created the finding. A rule with a low confidence means that the finding scope is wide and may create finding reports that may not be malicious in nature.

remediation

Describes the recommended remediation steps to address identified issue(s).

status_id

  • Type: integer_t
  • Requirement: recommended
  • Values:
    • 0 - Unknown: The status is unknown.
    • 1 - New: The Finding is new and yet to be reviewed.
    • 2 - In Progress: The Finding is under review.
    • 3 - Suppressed: The Finding was reviewed, determined to be benign or a false positive and is now suppressed.
    • 4 - Resolved: The Finding was reviewed, remediated and is now considered resolved.
    • 99 - Other: The event status is not mapped. See the status attribute, which contains a data source specific value.

The normalized status identifier of the Finding, set by the consumer.

api cloud

  • Type: api
  • Requirement: optional

Describes details about a typical API (Application Programming Interface) call.

comment

  • Type: string_t
  • Requirement: optional

A user provided comment about the finding.

confidence

  • Type: string_t
  • Requirement: optional

The confidence, normalized to the caption of the confidence_id value. In the case of ‘Other’, it is defined by the event source.

confidence_score

  • Type: integer_t
  • Requirement: optional

The confidence score as reported by the event source.

enrichments

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"}}]

raw_data

  • Type: string_t
  • Requirement: optional

The raw event/finding data as received from the source.

status

  • Type: string_t
  • Requirement: optional

The normalized status of the Finding set by the consumer normalized to the caption of the status_id value. In the case of ‘Other’, it is defined by the source.

unmapped

  • Type: object
  • Requirement: optional

The attributes that are not mapped to the event schema. The names and values of those attributes are specific to the event source.

Occurrence

Section titled “Occurrence”

time

  • Type: timestamp_t
  • Requirement: required

The normalized event occurrence time or the finding creation time.

timezone_offset

  • Type: integer_t
  • Requirement: recommended

The number of minutes that the reported event time is ahead or behind UTC, in the range -1,080 to +1,080.

count

  • Type: integer_t
  • Requirement: optional

The number of times that events in the same logical group occurred during the event Start Time to End Time period.

duration

  • Type: integer_t
  • Requirement: optional

The event duration or aggregate time, the amount of time the event covers from start_time to end_time in milliseconds.

end_time

  • Type: timestamp_t
  • Requirement: optional

The time of the most recent event included in the finding.

end_time_dt datetime

  • Type: datetime_t
  • Requirement: optional

The time of the most recent event included in the finding.

start_time

  • Type: timestamp_t
  • Requirement: optional

The time of the least recent event included in the finding.

start_time_dt datetime

  • Type: datetime_t
  • Requirement: optional

The time of the least recent event included in the finding.

time_dt datetime

  • Type: datetime_t
  • Requirement: optional

The normalized event occurrence time or the finding creation time.

Primary

Section titled “Primary”

cloud cloud

  • Type: cloud
  • Requirement: required

Describes details about the Cloud environment where the event was originally created or logged.

compliance

The compliance object provides context to compliance findings (e.g., a check against a specific regulatory or best practice framework such as CIS, NIST etc.) and contains compliance related details.

finding_info

Describes the supporting information about a generated finding.

message

  • Type: string_t
  • Requirement: recommended

The description of the event/finding, as defined by the source.

resource

Describes details about the resource that is the subject of the compliance check.

actor host

  • Type: actor
  • Requirement: optional

The actor object describes details about the user/role/process that was the source of the activity.

device host

  • Type: device
  • Requirement: optional

Describes the affected device/host. It can be used in conjunction with Affected Resource(s).

e.g. Specific details about an AWS EC2 instance, that is affected by the Finding.

observables

The observables associated with the event or a finding.

status_code

  • Type: string_t
  • Requirement: optional

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_detail

  • Type: string_t
  • Requirement: optional

The status details contains additional information about the event/finding outcome.

Objects Used

Section titled “Objects Used”