services / Azure / Microsoft Sentinel ML analytics setting

A machine-learning analytics setting in Microsoft Sentinel that powers behavioral/anomaly detections (e.g. UEBA-driven and Fusion ML models).

ML analytics settings back the anomaly-detection layer of the SIEM; disabling or weakening them removes behavioral detection coverage, so the resource type is HIGH.

Microsoft.​SecurityInsights/​securityMLAnalyticsSettings/​write

Updating an ML analytics setting lets an attacker disable or detune anomaly detection, removing behavioral coverage that would otherwise flag their activity.

Risks

1. Defense destruction (EVASION)

Scope: HIGH

This privilege may grant access to sensitive data from a single organizational function, or allow interruption of a service supporting a single organizational function.

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