// MITRE ATT&CK
T1615 · Group Policy Discovery
🎯 Discovery Windows
Adversaries may gather information on Group Policy settings to identify paths for privilege escalation, security measures applied within a domain, and to discover patterns in domain objects that can be manipulated or used to blend in the environment. Group Policy allows for centralized management of...
How to detect & mitigate it
Detecting Group Policy Discovery starts with your SIEM/EDR telemetry. Write a detection rule with the Sigma generator, analyze suspicious logs in the log analyzer, and place the technique on your coverage with the ATT&CK matrix.
Related techniques
T1033
System Owner/User Discovery T1613
Container and Resource Discovery T1016.001
Internet Connection Discovery T1069
Permission Groups Discovery T1069.003
Cloud Groups T1652
Device Driver Discovery T1087.002
Domain Account T1087.001
Local Account
System Owner/User Discovery T1613
Container and Resource Discovery T1016.001
Internet Connection Discovery T1069
Permission Groups Discovery T1069.003
Cloud Groups T1652
Device Driver Discovery T1087.002
Domain Account T1087.001
Local Account
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