Security Descriptor & ACL Monitoring

Last published : Oct 14, 2026
The ESA Threat Detection rules for permissions (security descriptors and ACLs) are Citrix vendor rules\.
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Threat Detection Engine

File System ACL Rules

The rules in this section detect suspicious behavior related to file system permissions (ACLs)\.
  • Detect processes started from directories that are user\-writeable
  • Detect process starts from directories with a low mandatory integrity label

Security Descriptor Monitoring Capabilities

uberAgent® ESA has sophisticated features that make security descriptors, which can be a bit obscure and difficult to work with, much more accessible:
  • SID to name lookup
  • Conversion of hex access masks to permission strings
Please see this document for details\.