All tables
Endpoint / Security event

DeviceFileCertificateInfo

Certificate information for files seen on endpoints including signer and issuer details

Recommendation

Operational and reference context.

How the matrix works

C9 Health, inventory, and reference context

Secondary: health, performance, metrics, diagnostics, inventory, posture snapshots, reference data, and aggregates derived from another collected table

ACSC

No section

CISA

No event type

MITRE data sources

  • File: File Metadata Access

T4 Investigation context

Low-touch context queried during investigations rather than for alerting.

Lake supported in the Azure Monitor table feature matrix

Fields detections use

High-value fields

DeviceNameSignerDeviceIdCertificateExpirationTimeSignerHashIssuerIsSignedIsRootSignerMicrosoftCertificateCreationTimeIssuerHashSHA1SignatureTypeCrlDistributionPointUrlsIsTrusted

Most used in public rules

  1. DeviceName56
  2. Signer56
  3. DeviceId53
  4. SHA15
  5. IsTrusted3
  6. CertificateCreationTime2
  7. CertificateExpirationTime2
  8. IsSigned2
  9. Issuer2
  10. SignerHash2
  11. CertificateSerialNumber1
  12. CrlDistributionPointUrls1

Sources for this recommendation

  • Log Horizon classification baseline Initial per-table classifications, recommendations, lifecycle state, and descriptive metadata migrated without semantic changes.
  • Log Baseline volume model Judgment-based volume driver and relative volume class per table. Not measured tenant volume.
  • Log Baseline classification rules Value rules C1-C9 mapped to ASD and CISA guidance, and tier rules T1-T5 including plan support. Stored per table as valueRule and tierRule.
  • Microsoft Defender XDR advanced hunting schema reference Table identity, description, preview state, lifecycle, and columns for Defender XDR advanced hunting tables, including the per-table reference pages linked from the index. Field analysis uses the columns for XDR-only tables such as EntraIdSignInEvents.