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Correlation Rules

Surface well-known, well-defined abnormal behaviour and events with fact-based correlation rules.

Correlation rules are rules that automatically correlate an event to a specific result. If an event meets specific conditions, the correlation rule triggers, which then takes a certain action. With the if-then logic of correlation rules, you can monitor known anomalies, detect signature-based threats, and identify compliance violations.

To create a correlation rule, you define the events that trigger your rule, specify conditions, then designate outcomes. After you create correlation rules, you can manage them—edit, enable or disable, delete, clone, filter, search for, and sort them.

To navigate to correlation rules in Threat Detection Management, click the Correlation Rules tab.

For each correlation rule, view:

  • Severity – The correlation rule severity: None, Low, Medium, High or Critical.

  • Name – The correlation rule name

  • Author – Who created the correlation rule

  • Created – The date and time the correlation rule was created

  • Last modified – The date and time the correlation rule was last modified

  • Last triggered – The date and time the correlation rule was last triggered

  • Triggered – The number of times the correlation rule has been triggered. To view the resulting rule trigger events in Search, click A blue square with an arrow pointing diagonally outward from the top-right corner..

  • Use case – The Exabeam use case associated with the correlation rule

  • Schedules – The number of trigger schedules associated with the correlation rule

  • MITRE – The MITRE ATT&CK® tactic associated with the correlation rule

  • Status – The state of the correlation rule:

    • Enabled – The correlation rule is enabled.

    • Testing – The correlation rule is enabled in test mode and its outcomes are suppressed.

    • Disabled – The correlation rule is disabled.

    • Stopped – The correlation rule has automatically been disabled because: events have satisfied the conditions of a sequence more than 500 times in five minutes; the correlation rule has triggered more than 50 times in five minutes; or the sequence uses incorrect query syntax or references an empty context table.