Alert Categories

Lacework classifies alerts into related categories. A category contains various properties and specifications that define the alerts within that category.

Alert Categories

The following table describes all alert categories.

Category	Description
Anomaly	Alerts that are generated when there are behavioral changes.
Policy	Alerts that are generated when a violation of a custom policy is detected.
Composite	Alerts that are generated when a potential intrusion is detected.

Alert Subcategories

The following table describes all alert subcategories.

Subcategory	Description
Compliance	Compliance-related alerts such as New violations: AWS Account <ACCOUNT_ID> : lacework-global-128 EC2 instances should not have a Public IP address attached. Lacework provides out-of-the-box compliance policies and supports the creation of custom compliance policies. These policies trigger alerts when a violation occurs (if the policies are enabled).
Application	Application-related vulnerabilities such as a suspicious application: Suspicious test app: Suspicious application /usr/local/bin/python2.7 (and 4 more)
Cloud Activity	Cloud-activity alerts specific to AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. For example: New Violations: GCP_CIS12_3_6 Ensure that SSH access is restricted from the internet new compliance violations detected.
File	Potentially suspicious file-related alerts such as: Clone of Suspicious Files: /var/run/qa/BFNE/08082021170247/eicar.com.txt (and 96 more).
Machine	Machine-related alerts such as new IP address connections: New External Server IP Address: ip-192.51.100.100.us-west-2.compute.internal connected to xx.xx.xxx.xxx
User	User-related alerts such as suspicious user logins: Suspicious logins from multiple GEOs: Suspicious user logins detected for user web93 (and 331 more) access from multiple geographies.
Platform	Platform-related alerts such as cloud activity ingestion failures: Cloud Activity log ingestion failure detected: dh-user-kt is failing for data ingestion into Lacework.
Kubernetes Activity	Kubernetes-related alerts such as a new binding to a Cluster Role was created: K8s Audit Log Cluster Role Created.
Registry	Registry-related alerts such as PolicyViolationChanged, NewPolicyViolation.
SystemCall	System-call-related alerts such as Attempted Host Path Mount, Host Path Mount Execution, Attempted Cron Job Creation.
Host Vulnerability	Host-vulnerability-related alerts such as "New vulnerable internal connection, New external host server connection from vulnerable application.
Container Vulnerability	Container-vulnerability-related alerts such as New security vulnerability, Known security vulnerability, Known security vulnerability discovered in repository.
Threat Intel	Network-related alerts such as Outbound connection to a bad external URL, Outbound connection to a bad external IP Addres, Inbound connection from a bad external IP Address.