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Monitoring Event Logs

Event monitoring with SIEM (system information and event management) integration is an important tool for monitoring your organization to maintain best security practices and ensure compliance. The following sections highlight several monitoring reference points that will provide increased observability of your Bitwarden solutions. This monitoring includes enabling insights into user actions in the vault, and providing examples of targets for automated alerting.

These events have been selected from the Bitwarden Event logs. By configuring a combination of instant alerts with alerting-over-time against the events that matter to your business, you will be able to audit your organization's use of Bitwarden in accordance with your unique security landscape.

Understanding Logs

Various SIEM platforms integrate with Bitwarden to review critical information on day to day vault usage.

Panther JSON Object
Panther JSON Object

SIEM event monitoring platforms will provide specific fields which should be monitored to maintain high security standards:

Value

Description

actingUserEmail

The email of the user performing the action.

actingUserId

Unique id of user performing action.

actingUserName

Name of the user performing an action.

collectionId

Organization collection id.

device

Numerical id of device. Exact mapping can be located here.

ipAddress

The ip address that performed the event.

itemId

Vault item (cipher, secure note, etc..) of the organization vault.

policyId

Organization policy update. See organization events here.

Tracking Bitwarden usage trends can identify questionable activity, or potential security threats:

Abnormal Rate of failed login attempts

  • Failed Login attempts

    • 1005 Login attempt failed with incorrect password

    • 1006 Login attempt failed with incorrect two step login.

Abnormal rate of viewing sensitive or hidden fields

  • Viewing item

    • 1107 Viewed item item-identifier

    • 1108 Viewed password for item item-identifier

    • 1109 Viewed hidden field for item item-identifier

    • 1110 Viewed security code for item item-identifier

  • Copying item fields

    • 1111 Copied password for item item-identifier

    • 1112 Copied security code for item item-identifier

Monitor usage trends to identify users engaging with Bitwarden and maintaining security practices:

Monitor user frequency

Critical vault actions

Specific events may be monitored in order to track critical actions made by high-level users, or changes made to critical vault items:

Super-user activities

  • Individual account activity

    • 1000 Logged in

    • 1001 Changed account password

    • 1002 Enabled/updated two-step login

    • 1003 Disabled two-step login

    • 1007 User exported their individual vault items

    • 1603 Organization vault access by a managing provider

  • Organization activities

    • 1500 Invited user user-identifier

    • 1501 Confirmed user user-identifier

    • 1502 Edited user user-identifier

    • 1504 Edited groups for user user-identifier

    • 1511 Revoked organization access for user user-identifier

    • 1512 Restored organization access for user-identifier

    • 1513 Approved device for user-identifier

    • 1600 Edited organization settings

    • 1609 Modified collection management setting

    • 1700 Modified policy policy-identifier

    • 2001 Removed domain domain-name

  • Exporting organization vault information

    • 1602 Exported organization vault

Critical item activities

  • Changes made to items that have been identified to be critical

    • 1101 Edited item item-identifier

    • 1105 Moved item item-identifier to an organization

    • 1106 Edited collections for item item-identifier

    • 1107 Viewed item item-identifier

    • 1108 Viewed password for item item-identifier

    • 1109 Viewed hidden field for item item-identifier

    • 1110 Viewed security code for item item-identifier

    • 1111 Copied password for item item-identifier

    • 1112 Copied hidden field for item item-identifier

    • 1113 Copied security code for item item-identifier

    • 1114 Autofilled item item-identifier

    • 1117 Viewed card number for item item-identifier