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| [Preview]: Deploy Microsoft Defender for Endpoint agent | Deploy Microsoft Defender for Endpoint agent on applicable images. | 4 | 1.0.0-preview | | Configure Advanced Threat Protection to be enabled on open-source relational databases | Enable Advanced Threat Protection on your non-Basic tier open-source relational databases to detect anomalous activities indicating unusual and potentially harmful attempts to access or exploit databases. See https://aka.ms/AzDforOpenSourceDBsDocu. | 5 | 1.2.0 | | Configure Azure Defender to be enabled on SQL Servers and SQL Managed Instances | Enable Azure Defender on your SQL Servers and SQL Managed Instances to detect anomalous activities indicating unusual and potentially harmful attempts to access or exploit databases. | 3 | 3.0.0 | | Configure Microsoft Defender for Cloud plans | Microsoft Defender for Cloud provides comprehensive, cloud-native protections from development to runtime in multi-cloud environments. Use the policy initiative to configure Defender for Cloud plans and extensions to be enabled on selected scope(s). | 12 | 1.1.2.0.0 | | Configure Microsoft Defender for Databases to be enabled | Configure Microsoft Defender for Databases to protect your Azure SQL Databases, Managed Instances, Open-source relational databases and Cosmos DB. | 4 | 1.0.0 | | Configure multiple Microsoft Defender for Endpoint integration settings with Microsoft Defender for Cloud | Configure the multiple Microsoft Defender for Endpoint integration settings with Microsoft Defender for Cloud (WDATP, WDATP_EXCLUDE_LINUX_PUBLIC_PREVIEW, WDATP_UNIFIED_SOLUTION etc.). See: https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/defender-for-cloud/integration-defender-for-endpoint for more information. | 3 | 1.0.0 | | Configure SQL VMs and Arc-enabled SQL Servers to install Microsoft Defender extension | Microsoft Defender for SQL collects events from the agents and uses them to provide security alerts and tailored hardening tasks (recommendations). | 3 | 1.0.0 | | Configure SQL VMs and Arc-enabled SQL Servers to install Microsoft Defender for SQL and AMA with a LA workspace | Microsoft Defender for SQL collects events from the agents and uses them to provide security alerts and tailored hardening tasks (recommendations). Creates a resource group and a Data Collection Rule and Log Analytics workspace in the same region as the machine. | 9 | 1.3.0 | | Configure SQL VMs and Arc-enabled SQL Servers to install Microsoft Defender for SQL and AMA with a user-defined LA workspace | Microsoft Defender for SQL collects events from the agents and uses them to provide security alerts and tailored hardening tasks (recommendations). Creates a resource group and a Data Collection Rule in the same region as the user-defined Log Analytics workspace. | 8 | 1.2.0 | | Microsoft cloud security benchmark | The Microsoft cloud security benchmark initiative represents the policies and controls implementing security recommendations defined in Microsoft cloud security benchmark, see https://aka.ms/azsecbm. This also serves as the Microsoft Defender for Cloud default policy initiative. You can directly assign this initiative, or manage its policies and compliance results within Microsoft Defender for Cloud. | 226216 | 57.58.60.0 | | Microsoft cloud security benchmark v2 | The Microsoft cloud security benchmark initiative represents the policies and controls implementing security recommendations defined in Microsoft cloud security benchmark, see https://aka.ms/MCSB. This also serves as the Microsoft Defender for Cloud default policy initiative. You can directly assign this initiative, or manage its policies and compliance results within Microsoft Defender for Cloud. | 730718 | 1.6.8.0 |

Defender for Cloud's default initiative (Microsoft cloud security benchmark)

| [Preview]: Azure Stack HCI servers should have consistently enforced application control policies | At a minimum, apply the Microsoft WDAC base policy in enforced mode on all Azure Stack HCI servers. Applied Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC) policies must be consistent across servers in the same cluster. | Audit, Disabled, AuditIfNotExists | 1.0.0-preview | | [Preview]: Azure Stack HCI servers should meet Secured-core requirements | Ensure that all Azure Stack HCI servers meet the Secured-core requirements. To enable the Secured-core server requirements: 1. From the Azure Stack HCI clusters page, go to Windows Admin Center and select Connect. 2. Go to the Security extension and select Secured-core. 3. Select any setting that is not enabled and click Enable. | Audit, Disabled, AuditIfNotExists | 1.0.0-preview | | [Preview]: Azure Stack HCI systems should have encrypted volumes | Use BitLocker to encrypt the OS and data volumes on Azure Stack HCI systems. | Audit, Disabled, AuditIfNotExists | 1.0.0-preview | | [Preview]: Guest Attestation extension should be installed on supported Linux virtual machines | Install Guest Attestation extension on supported Linux virtual machines to allow Azure Security Center to proactively attest and monitor the boot integrity. Once installed, boot integrity will be attested via Remote Attestation. This assessment applies to Trusted Launch and Confidential Linux virtual machines. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 6.0.0-preview | | [Preview]: Guest Attestation extension should be installed on supported Linux virtual machines scale sets | Install Guest Attestation extension on supported Linux virtual machines scale sets to allow Azure Security Center to proactively attest and monitor the boot integrity. Once installed, boot integrity will be attested via Remote Attestation. This assessment applies to Trusted Launch and Confidential Linux virtual machine scale sets. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 5.1.0-preview | | [Preview]: Guest Attestation extension should be installed on supported Windows virtual machines | Install Guest Attestation extension on supported virtual machines to allow Azure Security Center to proactively attest and monitor the boot integrity. Once installed, boot integrity will be attested via Remote Attestation. This assessment applies to Trusted Launch and Confidential Windows virtual machines. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 4.0.0-preview | | [Preview]: Guest Attestation extension should be installed on supported Windows virtual machines scale sets | Install Guest Attestation extension on supported virtual machines scale sets to allow Azure Security Center to proactively attest and monitor the boot integrity. Once installed, boot integrity will be attested via Remote Attestation. This assessment applies to Trusted Launch and Confidential Windows virtual machine scale sets. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 3.1.0-preview | | [Preview]: Host and VM networking should be protected on Azure Stack HCI systems | Protect data on the Azure Stack HCI hosts network and on virtual machine network connections. | Audit, Disabled, AuditIfNotExists | 1.0.0-preview | | [Preview]: Linux virtual machines should use only signed and trusted boot components | All OS boot components (boot loader, kernel, kernel drivers) must be signed by trusted publishers. Defender for Cloud has identified untrusted OS boot components on one or more of your Linux machines. To protect your machines from potentially malicious components, add them to your allow list or remove the identified components. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.0.0-preview | | [Preview]: Secure Boot should be enabled on supported Windows virtual machines | Enable Secure Boot on supported Windows virtual machines to mitigate against malicious and unauthorized changes to the boot chain. Once enabled, only trusted bootloaders, kernel and kernel drivers will be allowed to run. This assessment applies to Trusted Launch and Confidential Windows virtual machines. | Audit, Disabled | 4.0.0-preview | | [Preview]: vTPM should be enabled on supported virtual machines | Enable virtual TPM device on supported virtual machines to facilitate Measured Boot and other OS security features that require a TPM. Once enabled, vTPM can be used to attest boot integrity. This assessment only applies to trusted launch enabled virtual machines. | Audit, Disabled | 2.0.0-preview | | A maximum of 3 owners should be designated for your subscription | It is recommended to designate up to 3 subscription owners in order to reduce the potential for breach by a compromised owner. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 3.0.0 | | A Microsoft Entra administrator should be provisioned for MySQL servers | Audit provisioning of a Microsoft Entra administrator for your MySQL server to enable Microsoft Entra authentication. Microsoft Entra authentication enables simplified permission management and centralized identity management of database users and other Microsoft services | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.1.1 | | A Microsoft Entra administrator should be provisioned for PostgreSQL servers | Audit provisioning of a Microsoft Entra administrator for your PostgreSQL server to enable Microsoft Entra authentication. Microsoft Entra authentication enables simplified permission management and centralized identity management of database users and other Microsoft services | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.0.1 | | API Management should disable public network access to the service configuration endpoints | To improve the security of API Management services, restrict connectivity to service configuration endpoints, like direct access management API, Git configuration management endpoint, or self-hosted gateways configuration endpoint. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.0.1 | | API Management subscriptions should not be scoped to all APIs | API Management subscriptions should be scoped to a product or an individual API instead of all APIs, which could result in an excessive data exposure. | Audit, Disabled, Deny | 1.1.0 | | App Configuration should use private link | Azure Private Link lets you connect your virtual network to Azure services without a public IP address at the source or destination. The private link platform handles the connectivity between the consumer and services over the Azure backbone network. By mapping private endpoints to your app configuration instances instead of the entire service, you'll also be protected against data leakage risks. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/appconfig/private-endpoint. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.0.2 | | App Service apps should have Client Certificates (Incoming client certificates) enabled | Client certificates allow for the app to request a certificate for incoming requests. Only clients that have a valid certificate will be able to reach the app. This policy applies to apps with Http version set to 1.1. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.0.0 | | App Service apps should have remote debugging turned off | Remote debugging requires inbound ports to be opened on an App Service app. Remote debugging should be turned off. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 2.0.0 | | App Service apps should have resource logs enabled | Audit enabling of resource logs on the app. This enables you to recreate activity trails for investigation purposes if a security incident occurs or your network is compromised. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 2.0.1 | | App Service apps should not have CORS configured to allow every resource to access your apps | Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) should not allow all domains to access your app. Allow only required domains to interact with your app. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 2.0.0 | | Email notification to subscription owner for high severity alerts should be enabled | To ensure your subscription owners are notified when there is a potential security breach in their subscription, set email notifications to subscription owners for high severity alerts in Security Center. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 2.1.0 | | Enforce SSL connection should be enabled for MySQL database servers | Azure Database for MySQL supports connecting your Azure Database for MySQL server to client applications using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). Enforcing SSL connections between your database server and your client applications helps protect against 'man in the middle' attacks by encrypting the data stream between the server and your application. This configuration enforces that SSL is always enabled for accessing your database server. | Audit, Disabled | 1.0.1 | | Enforce SSL connection should be enabled for PostgreSQL database servers | Azure Database for PostgreSQL supports connecting your Azure Database for PostgreSQL server to client applications using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). Enforcing SSL connections between your database server and your client applications helps protect against 'man in the middle' attacks by encrypting the data stream between the server and your application. This configuration enforces that SSL is always enabled for accessing your database server. | Audit, Disabled | 1.0.1 | | Function apps should have Client Certificates (Incoming client certificates) enabled | Client certificates allow for the app to request a certificate for incoming requests. Only clients that have a valid certificate will be able to reach the app. This policy applies to apps with Http version set to 1.1. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.1.0 | | Function apps should have remote debugging turned off | Remote debugging requires inbound ports to be opened on Function apps. Remote debugging should be turned off. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 2.1.0 | | Function apps should not have CORS configured to allow every resource to access your apps | Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) should not allow all domains to access your Function app. Allow only required domains to interact with your Function app. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 2.1.0 | | Function apps should only be accessible over HTTPS | Use of HTTPS ensures server/service authentication and protects data in transit from network layer eavesdropping attacks. | Audit, Disabled, Deny | 5.1.0 | | Guest accounts with owner permissions on Azure resources should be removed | External accounts with owner permissions should be removed from your subscription in order to prevent unmonitored access. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.0.0 | | Guest accounts with read permissions on Azure resources should be removed | External accounts with read privileges should be removed from your subscription in order to prevent unmonitored access. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.0.0 | | Guest accounts with write permissions on Azure resources should be removed | External accounts with write privileges should be removed from your subscription in order to prevent unmonitored access. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.0.0 | | Guest Attestation extension should be installed on supported Linux virtual machines | Install Guest Attestation extension on supported Linux virtual machines to allow Azure Security Center to proactively attest and monitor the boot integrity. Once installed, boot integrity will be attested via Remote Attestation. This assessment applies to Trusted Launch and Confidential Linux virtual machines. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 6.1.0 | | Guest Attestation extension should be installed on supported Linux virtual machines scale sets | Install Guest Attestation extension on supported Linux virtual machines scale sets to allow Azure Security Center to proactively attest and monitor the boot integrity. Once installed, boot integrity will be attested via Remote Attestation. This assessment applies to Trusted Launch and Confidential Linux virtual machine scale sets. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 5.2.0 | | Guest Attestation extension should be installed on supported Windows virtual machines | Install Guest Attestation extension on supported virtual machines to allow Azure Security Center to proactively attest and monitor the boot integrity. Once installed, boot integrity will be attested via Remote Attestation. This assessment applies to Trusted Launch and Confidential Windows virtual machines. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 4.0.1 | | Guest Attestation extension should be installed on supported Windows virtual machines scale sets | Install Guest Attestation extension on supported virtual machines scale sets to allow Azure Security Center to proactively attest and monitor the boot integrity. Once installed, boot integrity will be attested via Remote Attestation. This assessment applies to Trusted Launch and Confidential Windows virtual machine scale sets. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 3.1.1 | | Guest Configuration extension should be installed on your machines | To ensure secure configurations of in-guest settings of your machine, install the Guest Configuration extension. In-guest settings that the extension monitors include the configuration of the operating system, application configuration or presence, and environment settings. Once installed, in-guest policies will be available such as 'Windows Exploit guard should be enabled'. Learn more at https://aka.ms/gcpol. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.0.3 | | Internet-facing virtual machines should be protected with network security groups | Protect your virtual machines from potential threats by restricting access to them with network security groups (NSG). Learn more about controlling traffic with NSGs at https://aka.ms/nsg-doc | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 3.0.0 | | IP Forwarding on your virtual machine should be disabled | Enabling IP forwarding on a virtual machine's NIC allows the machine to receive traffic addressed to other destinations. IP forwarding is rarely required (e.g., when using the VM as a network virtual appliance), and therefore, this should be reviewed by the network security team. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 3.0.0 | | Kubernetes cluster containers should only use allowed capabilities | Restrict the capabilities to reduce the attack surface of containers in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of CIS 5.2.8 and CIS 5.2.9 which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | audit, Audit, deny, Deny, disabled, Disabled | 6.2.0 | | Kubernetes cluster containers should only use allowed images | Use images from trusted registries to reduce the Kubernetes cluster's exposure risk to unknown vulnerabilities, security issues and malicious images. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | audit, Audit, deny, Deny, disabled, Disabled | 9.3.0 | | Kubernetes cluster containers should run with a read only root file system | Run containers with a read only root file system to protect from changes at run-time with malicious binaries being added to PATH in a Kubernetes cluster. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | audit, Audit, deny, Deny, disabled, Disabled | 6.3.0 | | Kubernetes cluster pod hostPath volumes should only use allowed host paths | Limit pod HostPath volume mounts to the allowed host paths in a Kubernetes Cluster. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | audit, Audit, deny, Deny, disabled, Disabled | 6.4.0 | | Kubernetes cluster pods and containers should only run with approved user and group IDs | Control the user, primary group, supplemental group and file system group IDs that pods and containers can use to run in a Kubernetes Cluster. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | audit, Audit, deny, Deny, disabled, Disabled | 6.2.0 | | Kubernetes cluster pods should only use approved host network and port list | Restrict pod access to the host network and the allowable host ports in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of CIS 5.2.4 which is intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments and aligns with Pod Security Standards (PSS) for hostPorts. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Audit, Deny, Disabled | 8.0.0 | | Kubernetes cluster services should listen only on allowed ports | Restrict services to listen only on allowed ports to secure access to the Kubernetes cluster. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | audit, Audit, deny, Deny, disabled, Disabled | 8.2.0 | | Kubernetes cluster should not allow privileged containers | Do not allow privileged containers creation in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of CIS 5.2.1 which is intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | audit, Audit, deny, Deny, disabled, Disabled | 9.2.0 | | Kubernetes clusters should be accessible only over HTTPS | Use of HTTPS ensures authentication and protects data in transit from network layer eavesdropping attacks. This capability is currently generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and in preview for Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more info, visit https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc | Audit, Deny, Disabled | 9.0.0 | | Kubernetes clusters should not use the default namespace | Prevent usage of the default namespace in Kubernetes clusters to protect against unauthorized access for ConfigMap, Pod, Secret, Service, and ServiceAccount resource types. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | audit, Audit, deny, Deny, disabled, Disabled | 4.2.0 | | Linux machines should meet requirements for the Azure compute security baseline | Requires that prerequisites are deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. Machines are non-compliant if the machine is not configured correctly for one of the recommendations in the Azure compute security baseline. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 2.3.1 | | Linux virtual machines should enable Azure Disk Encryption or EncryptionAtHost. | Although a virtual machine's OS and data disks are encrypted-at-rest by default using platform managed keys; resource disks (temp disks), data caches, and data flowing between Compute and Storage resources are not encrypted. Use Azure Disk Encryption or EncryptionAtHost to remediate. Visit https://aka.ms/diskencryptioncomparison to compare encryption offerings. This policy requires two prerequisites to be deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.2.1 | | Machines should be configured to periodically check for missing system updates | To ensure periodic assessments for missing system updates are triggered automatically every 24 hours, the AssessmentMode property should be set to 'AutomaticByPlatform'. Learn more about AssessmentMode property for Windows: https://aka.ms/computevm-windowspatchassessmentmode, for Linux: https://aka.ms/computevm-linuxpatchassessmentmode. | Audit, Deny, Disabled | 3.10.0 | | Machines should have secret findings resolved | Audits virtual machines to detect whether they contain secret findings from the secret scanning solutions on your virtual machines. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.0.2 | | Management ports of virtual machines should be protected with just-in-time network access control | Possible network Just In Time (JIT) access will be monitored by Azure Security Center as recommendations | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 3.0.0 | | Management ports should be closed on your virtual machines | Open remote management ports are exposing your VM to a high level of risk from Internet-based attacks. These attacks attempt to brute force credentials to gain admin access to the machine. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 3.0.0 | | Resource logs in Search services should be enabled | Audit enabling of resource logs. This enables you to recreate activity trails to use for investigation purposes; when a security incident occurs or when your network is compromised | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 5.0.0 | | Resource logs in Service Bus should be enabled | Audit enabling of resource logs. This enables you to recreate activity trails to use for investigation purposes; when a security incident occurs or when your network is compromised | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 5.0.0 | | Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) should be used on Kubernetes Services | To provide granular filtering on the actions that users can perform, use Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) to manage permissions in Kubernetes Service Clusters and configure relevant authorization policies. | Audit, Disabled | 1.1.0 | | Secure Boot should be enabled on supported Windows virtual machines | Enable Secure Boot on supported Windows virtual machines to mitigate against malicious and unauthorized changes to the boot chain. Once enabled, only trusted bootloaders, kernel and kernel drivers will be allowed to run. This assessment applies to Trusted Launch and Confidential Windows virtual machines. | Audit, Disabled | 4.0.1 | | Secure transfer to storage accounts should be enabled | Audit requirement of Secure transfer in your storage account. Secure transfer is an option that forces your storage account to accept requests only from secure connections (HTTPS). Use of HTTPS ensures authentication between the server and the service and protects data in transit from network layer attacks such as man-in-the-middle, eavesdropping, and session-hijacking | Audit, Deny, Disabled | 2.0.0 | | Service Fabric clusters should have the ClusterProtectionLevel property set to EncryptAndSign | Service Fabric provides three levels of protection (None, Sign and EncryptAndSign) for node-to-node communication using a primary cluster certificate. Set the protection level to ensure that all node-to-node messages are encrypted and digitally signed | Audit, Deny, Disabled | 1.1.0 | | Service Fabric clusters should only use Azure Active Directory for client authentication | Audit usage of client authentication only via Azure Active Directory in Service Fabric | Audit, Deny, Disabled | 1.1.0 | | SQL servers with auditing to storage account destination should be configured with 90 days retention or higher | For incident investigation purposes, we recommend setting the data retention for your SQL Server' auditing to storage account destination to at least 90 days. Confirm that you are meeting the necessary retention rules for the regions in which you are operating. This is sometimes required for compliance with regulatory standards. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 3.0.0 | | Storage account public access should be disallowed | Anonymous public read access to containers and blobs in Azure Storage is a convenient way to share data but might present security risks. To prevent data breaches caused by undesired anonymous access, Microsoft recommends preventing public access to a storage account unless your scenario requires it. | audit, Audit, deny, Deny, disabled, Disabled | 3.1.1 | | Storage accounts should be migrated to new Azure Resource Manager resources | Use new Azure Resource Manager for your storage accounts to provide security enhancements such as: stronger access control (RBAC), better auditing, Azure Resource Manager based deployment and governance, access to managed identities, access to key vault for secrets, Azure AD-based authentication and support for tags and resource groups for easier security management | Audit, Deny, Disabled | 1.0.0 | | Storage accounts should prevent shared key access | Audit requirement of Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) to authorize requests for your storage account. By default, requests can be authorized with either Azure Active Directory credentials, or by using the account access key for Shared Key authorization. Of these two types of authorization, Azure AD provides superior security and ease of use over Shared Key, and is recommended by Microsoft. | Audit, Deny, Disabled | 2.1.0 | | Storage accounts should prevent shared key access (excluding storage accounts created by Databricks) | Audit requirement of Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) to authorize requests for your storage account. By default, requests can be authorized with either Azure Active Directory credentials, or by using the account access key for Shared Key authorization. Of these two types of authorization, Azure AD provides superior security and ease of use over Shared Key, and is recommended by Microsoft. | Audit, Deny, Disabled | 1.0.0 | | Storage accounts should prevent shared key access (excluding storage accounts managed by Azure Red Hat OpenShift) | Audit requirement of Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) to authorize requests for your storage account. By default, requests can be authorized with either Azure Active Directory credentials, or by using the account access key for Shared Key authorization. Of these two types of authorization, Azure AD provides superior security and ease of use over Shared Key, and is recommended by Microsoft. Storage accounts in resource groups managed by Azure Red Hat OpenShift are excluded from evaluation. | Audit, Deny, Disabled | 1.0.0 | | Storage accounts should restrict network access | Network access to storage accounts should be restricted. Configure network rules so only applications from allowed networks can access the storage account. To allow connections from specific internet or on-premises clients, access can be granted to traffic from specific Azure virtual networks or to public internet IP address ranges | Audit, Deny, Disabled | 1.2.0 | | Storage accounts should restrict network access (excluding storage accounts managed by Azure Red Hat OpenShift) | Network access to storage accounts should be restricted. Configure network rules so only applications from allowed networks can access the storage account. To allow connections from specific internet or on-premises clients, access can be granted to traffic from specific Azure virtual networks or to public internet IP address ranges. Storage accounts in resource groups managed by Azure Red Hat OpenShift are excluded from evaluation. | Audit, Deny, Disabled | 1.0.0 | | Storage accounts should restrict network access using virtual network rules | Protect your storage accounts from potential threats using virtual network rules as a preferred method instead of IP-based filtering. Disabling IP-based filtering prevents public IPs from accessing your storage accounts. | Audit, Deny, Disabled | 1.1.0 | | Storage accounts should restrict network access using virtual network rules (excluding storage accounts created by Databricks) | Protect your storage accounts from potential threats using virtual network rules as a preferred method instead of IP-based filtering. Disabling IP-based filtering prevents public IPs from accessing your storage accounts. | Audit, Deny, Disabled | 1.0.0 | | Storage accounts should restrict network access using virtual network rules (excluding storage accounts managed by ARO) | Protect your storage accounts from potential threats using virtual network rules as a preferred method instead of IP-based filtering. Disabling IP-based filtering prevents public IPs from accessing your storage accounts. Storage accounts in resource groups managed by Azure Red Hat OpenShift are excluded from evaluation. | Audit, Deny, Disabled | 1.0.0 | | Storage accounts should use customer-managed key for encryption | Secure your blob and file storage account with greater flexibility using customer-managed keys. When you specify a customer-managed key, that key is used to protect and control access to the key that encrypts your data. Using customer-managed keys provides additional capabilities to control rotation of the key encryption key or cryptographically erase data. | Audit, Disabled | 1.1.0 | | Storage accounts should use customer-managed key for encryption (excluding storage accounts managed by Azure Red Hat OpenShift) | Secure your blob and file storage account with greater flexibility using customer-managed keys. When you specify a customer-managed key, that key is used to protect and control access to the key that encrypts your data. Using customer-managed keys provides additional capabilities to control rotation of the key encryption key or cryptographically erase data. Storage accounts in resource groups managed by Azure Red Hat OpenShift are excluded from evaluation. | Audit, Disabled | 1.0.0 | | Storage accounts should use private link | Azure Private Link lets you connect your virtual network to Azure services without a public IP address at the source or destination. The Private Link platform handles the connectivity between the consumer and services over the Azure backbone network. By mapping private endpoints to your storage account, data leakage risks are reduced. Learn more about private links at - https://aka.ms/azureprivatelinkoverview | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 2.1.0 | | Storage accounts should use private link (excluding storage accounts created by Databricks) | Azure Private Link lets you connect your virtual network to Azure services without a public IP address at the source or destination. The Private Link platform handles the connectivity between the consumer and services over the Azure backbone network. By mapping private endpoints to your storage account, data leakage risks are reduced. Learn more about private links at - https://aka.ms/azureprivatelinkoverview | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.0.0 | | Storage accounts should use private link (excluding storage accounts managed by Azure Red Hat OpenShift) | Azure Private Link lets you connect your virtual network to Azure services without a public IP address at the source or destination. The Private Link platform handles the connectivity between the consumer and services over the Azure backbone network. By mapping private endpoints to your storage account, data leakage risks are reduced. Learn more about private links at - https://aka.ms/azureprivatelinkoverview. Storage accounts in resource groups managed by ARO are excluded from evaluation. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.0.0 | | Subnets should be associated with a Network Security Group | Protect your subnet from potential threats by restricting access to it with a Network Security Group (NSG). NSGs contain a list of Access Control List (ACL) rules that allow or deny network traffic to your subnet. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 3.0.0 | | Subscriptions should have a contact email address for security issues | To ensure the relevant people in your organization are notified when there is a potential security breach in one of your subscriptions, set a security contact to receive email notifications from Security Center. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.0.1 | | Synapse Workspaces should have Microsoft Entra-only authentication enabled | Require Synapse Workspaces to use Microsoft Entra-only authentication. This policy doesn't block workspaces from being created with local authentication enabled. It does block local authentication from being enabled on resources after create. Consider using the 'Microsoft Entra-only authentication' initiative instead to require both. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/Synapse. | Audit, Deny, Disabled | 1.0.0 | | Virtual machines' Guest Configuration extension should be deployed with system-assigned managed identity | The Guest Configuration extension requires a system assigned managed identity. Azure virtual machines in the scope of this policy will be non-compliant when they have the Guest Configuration extension installed but do not have a system assigned managed identity. Learn more at https://aka.ms/gcpol | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.0.1 | | VM Image Builder templates should use private link | Azure Private Link lets you connect your virtual network to Azure services without a public IP address at the source or destination. The Private Link platform handles the connectivity between the consumer and services over the Azure backbone network. By mapping private endpoints to your VM Image Builder building resources, data leakage risks are reduced. Learn more about private links at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-machines/linux/image-builder-networking#deploy-using-an-existing-vnet. | Audit, Disabled, Deny | 1.1.0 | | VPN gateways should use only Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication for point-to-site users | Disabling local authentication methods improves security by ensuring that VPN Gateways use only Azure Active Directory identities for authentication. Learn more about Azure AD authentication at https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/vpn-gateway/openvpn-azure-ad-tenant | Audit, Deny, Disabled | 1.0.0 | | vTPM should be enabled on supported virtual machines | Enable virtual TPM device on supported virtual machines to facilitate Measured Boot and other OS security features that require a TPM. Once enabled, vTPM can be used to attest boot integrity. This assessment only applies to trusted launch enabled virtual machines. | Audit, Disabled | 2.0.1 | | Vulnerability assessment should be enabled on SQL Managed Instance | Audit each SQL Managed Instance which doesn't have vulnerability assessment properly configured. Vulnerability assessment can discover, track, and help you remediate potential database vulnerabilities. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.2.0 | | Vulnerability assessment should be enabled on your SQL servers | Audit Azure SQL servers which do not have vulnerability assessment properly configured. Vulnerability assessment can discover, track, and help you remediate potential database vulnerabilities. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 3.1.0 | | Web Application Firewall (WAF) should be enabled for Application Gateway | Deploy Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) in front of public facing web applications for additional inspection of incoming traffic. Web Application Firewall (WAF) provides centralized protection of your web applications from common exploits and vulnerabilities such as SQL injections, Cross-Site Scripting, local and remote file executions. You can also restrict access to your web applications by countries, IP address ranges, and other http(s) parameters via custom rules. | Audit, Deny, Disabled | 2.0.0 | | [Preview]: ChangeTracking extension should be installed on your Windows Arc machine | Install ChangeTracking Extension on Windows Arc machines to enable File Integrity Monitoring(FIM) in Azure Security Center. FIM examines operating system files, Windows registries, application software, Linux system files, and more, for changes that might indicate an attack. The extension can be installed in virtual machines and locations supported by Azure Monitoring Agent. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.0.0-preview | | [Preview]: ChangeTracking extension should be installed on your Windows virtual machine | Install ChangeTracking Extension on Windows virtual machines to enable File Integrity Monitoring(FIM) in Azure Security Center. FIM examines operating system files, Windows registries, application software, Linux system files, and more, for changes that might indicate an attack. The extension can be installed in virtual machines and locations supported by Azure Monitoring Agent. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 2.0.0-preview | | [Preview]: Configure Azure Defender for SQL agent on virtual machine | Configure Windows machines to automatically install the Azure Defender for SQL agent where the Azure Monitor Agent is installed. Security Center collects events from the agent and uses them to provide security alerts and tailored hardening tasks (recommendations). Creates a resource group and Log Analytics workspace in the same region as the machine. Target virtual machines must be in a supported location. | DeployIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.0.0-preview | | [Preview]: Configure supported Linux virtual machine scale sets to automatically install the Guest Attestation extension | Configure supported Linux virtual machines scale sets to automatically install the Guest Attestation extension to allow Azure Security Center to proactively attest and monitor the boot integrity. Boot integrity is attested via Remote Attestation. | DeployIfNotExists, Disabled | 6.1.0-preview | | [Preview]: Configure supported Linux virtual machines to automatically enable Secure Boot | Configure supported Linux virtual machines to automatically enable Secure Boot to mitigate against malicious and unauthorized changes to the boot chain. Once enabled, only trusted bootloaders, kernel and kernel drivers will be allowed to run. | DeployIfNotExists, Disabled | 5.0.0-preview | | [Preview]: Configure supported Linux virtual machines to automatically install the Guest Attestation extension | Configure supported Linux virtual machines to automatically install the Guest Attestation extension to allow Azure Security Center to proactively attest and monitor the boot integrity. Boot integrity is attested via Remote Attestation. | DeployIfNotExists, Disabled | 7.1.0-preview | | [Preview]: Configure supported virtual machines to automatically enable vTPM | Configure supported virtual machines to automatically enable vTPM to facilitate Measured Boot and other OS security features that require a TPM. Once enabled, vTPM can be used to attest boot integrity. | DeployIfNotExists, Disabled | 2.0.0-preview | | [Preview]: Configure supported Windows virtual machine scale sets to automatically install the Guest Attestation extension | Configure supported Windows virtual machines scale sets to automatically install the Guest Attestation extension to allow Azure Security Center to proactively attest and monitor the boot integrity. Boot integrity is attested via Remote Attestation. | DeployIfNotExists, Disabled | 4.1.0-preview | | [Preview]: Configure supported Windows virtual machines to automatically enable Secure Boot | Configure supported Windows virtual machines to automatically enable Secure Boot to mitigate against malicious and unauthorized changes to the boot chain. Once enabled, only trusted bootloaders, kernel and kernel drivers will be allowed to run. | DeployIfNotExists, Disabled | 3.0.0-preview | | [Preview]: Configure supported Windows virtual machines to automatically install the Guest Attestation extension | Configure supported Windows virtual machines to automatically install the Guest Attestation extension to allow Azure Security Center to proactively attest and monitor the boot integrity. Boot integrity is attested via Remote Attestation. | DeployIfNotExists, Disabled | 5.1.0-preview | | [Preview]: Configure VMs created with Shared Image Gallery images to install the Guest Attestation extension | Configure virtual machines created with Shared Image Gallery images to automatically install the Guest Attestation extension to allow Azure Security Center to proactively attest and monitor the boot integrity. Boot integrity is attested via Remote Attestation. | DeployIfNotExists, Disabled | 2.0.0-preview | | [Preview]: Configure VMSS created with Shared Image Gallery images to install the Guest Attestation extension | Configure VMSS created with Shared Image Gallery images to automatically install the Guest Attestation extension to allow Azure Security Center to proactively attest and monitor the boot integrity. Boot integrity is attested via Remote Attestation. | DeployIfNotExists, Disabled | 2.1.0-preview | | [Preview]: Deploy Microsoft Defender for Endpoint agent on Linux hybrid machines | Deploys Microsoft Defender for Endpoint agent on Linux hybrid machines | DeployIfNotExists, AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 2.0.1-preview | | [Preview]: Deploy Microsoft Defender for Endpoint agent on Linux virtual machines | Deploys Microsoft Defender for Endpoint agent on applicable Linux VM images. | DeployIfNotExists, AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 3.0.0-preview | | [Preview]: Deploy Microsoft Defender for Endpoint agent on Windows Azure Arc machines | Deploys Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on Windows Azure Arc machines. | DeployIfNotExists, AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 2.0.1-preview | | [Preview]: Deploy Microsoft Defender for Endpoint agent on Windows virtual machines | Deploys Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on applicable Windows VM images. | DeployIfNotExists, AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 2.0.1-preview | | [Preview]: Guest Attestation extension should be installed on supported Linux virtual machines | Install Guest Attestation extension on supported Linux virtual machines to allow Azure Security Center to proactively attest and monitor the boot integrity. Once installed, boot integrity will be attested via Remote Attestation. This assessment applies to Trusted Launch and Confidential Linux virtual machines. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 6.0.0-preview | | [Preview]: Guest Attestation extension should be installed on supported Linux virtual machines scale sets | Install Guest Attestation extension on supported Linux virtual machines scale sets to allow Azure Security Center to proactively attest and monitor the boot integrity. Once installed, boot integrity will be attested via Remote Attestation. This assessment applies to Trusted Launch and Confidential Linux virtual machine scale sets. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 5.1.0-preview | | [Preview]: Guest Attestation extension should be installed on supported Windows virtual machines | Install Guest Attestation extension on supported virtual machines to allow Azure Security Center to proactively attest and monitor the boot integrity. Once installed, boot integrity will be attested via Remote Attestation. This assessment applies to Trusted Launch and Confidential Windows virtual machines. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 4.0.0-preview | | [Preview]: Guest Attestation extension should be installed on supported Windows virtual machines scale sets | Install Guest Attestation extension on supported virtual machines scale sets to allow Azure Security Center to proactively attest and monitor the boot integrity. Once installed, boot integrity will be attested via Remote Attestation. This assessment applies to Trusted Launch and Confidential Windows virtual machine scale sets. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 3.1.0-preview | | [Preview]: Linux virtual machines should use only signed and trusted boot components | All OS boot components (boot loader, kernel, kernel drivers) must be signed by trusted publishers. Defender for Cloud has identified untrusted OS boot components on one or more of your Linux machines. To protect your machines from potentially malicious components, add them to your allow list or remove the identified components. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.0.0-preview | | [Preview]: Linux virtual machines should use Secure Boot | To protect against the installation of malware-based rootkits and boot kits, enable Secure Boot on supported Linux virtual machines. Secure Boot ensures that only signed operating systems and drivers will be allowed to run. This assessment only applies to Linux virtual machines that have the Azure Monitor Agent installed. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.0.0-preview | | [Preview]: Machines should have ports closed that might expose attack vectors | Azure's Terms Of Use prohibit the use of Azure services in ways that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair any Microsoft server, or the network. The exposed ports identified by this recommendation need to be closed for your continued security. For each identified port, the recommendation also provides an explanation of the potential threat. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.0.0-preview | | [Preview]: Secure Boot should be enabled on supported Windows virtual machines | Enable Secure Boot on supported Windows virtual machines to mitigate against malicious and unauthorized changes to the boot chain. Once enabled, only trusted bootloaders, kernel and kernel drivers will be allowed to run. This assessment applies to Trusted Launch and Confidential Windows virtual machines. | Audit, Disabled | 4.0.0-preview | | [Preview]: Virtual machines guest attestation status should be healthy | Guest attestation is performed by sending a trusted log (TCGLog) to an attestation server. The server uses these logs to determine whether boot components are trustworthy. This assessment is intended to detect compromises of the boot chain which might be the result of a bootkit or rootkit infection. This assessment only applies to Trusted Launch enabled virtual machines that have Guest Attestation extension installed. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.0.0-preview | | [Preview]: vTPM should be enabled on supported virtual machines | Enable virtual TPM device on supported virtual machines to facilitate Measured Boot and other OS security features that require a TPM. Once enabled, vTPM can be used to attest boot integrity. This assessment only applies to trusted launch enabled virtual machines. | Audit, Disabled | 2.0.0-preview | | A maximum of 3 owners should be designated for your subscription | It is recommended to designate up to 3 subscription owners in order to reduce the potential for breach by a compromised owner. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 3.0.0 | | A vulnerability assessment solution should be enabled on your virtual machines | Audits virtual machines to detect whether they are running a supported vulnerability assessment solution. A core component of every cyber risk and security program is the identification and analysis of vulnerabilities. Azure Security Center's standard pricing tier includes vulnerability scanning for your virtual machines at no extra cost. Additionally, Security Center can automatically deploy this tool for you. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 3.0.0 | | All network ports should be restricted on network security groups associated to your virtual machine | Azure Security Center has identified some of your network security groups' inbound rules to be too permissive. Inbound rules should not allow access from 'Any' or 'Internet' ranges. This can potentially enable attackers to target your resources. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 3.0.0 | | Configure Microsoft Defender for Endpoint integration settings with Microsoft Defender for Cloud (WDATP_UNIFIED_SOLUTION) | Configures the Microsoft Defender for Endpoint integration settings, within Microsoft Defender for Cloud (also known as WDATP_UNIFIED_SOLUTION), for enabling auto provisioning of MDE Unified Agent for Windows Server 2012R2 and 2016. WDATP setting must be turned on for this setting to be applied. See: https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/defender-for-cloud/integration-defender-for-endpoint for more information. | DeployIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.0.0 | | Configure Microsoft Defender for Endpoint integration settings with Microsoft Defender for Cloud (WDATP) | Configures the Microsoft Defender for Endpoint integration settings, within Microsoft Defender for Cloud (also known as WDATP), for Windows downlevel machines onboarded to MDE via MMA, and auto provisioning of MDE on Windows Server 2019 , Windows Virtual Desktop and above. Must be turned on in order for the other settings (WDATP_UNIFIED, etc.) to work. See: https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/defender-for-cloud/integration-defender-for-endpoint for more information. | DeployIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.0.0 | | Configure Microsoft Defender for Key Vault plan | Microsoft Defender for Key Vault provides an additional layer of protection and security intelligence by detecting unusual and potentially harmful attempts to access or exploit key vault accounts. | DeployIfNotExists, Disabled | 2.0.0 | | Configure Microsoft Defender for Servers P1 plan | Configures Microsoft Defender for Servers with Plan P1. Agentless VM Scanning is not supported for P1 and is excluded from this policy. | DeployIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.0.0 | | Configure Microsoft Defender for Servers plan | New capabilities are continuously being added to Defender for Servers, which may require the user's explicit enablement. Use this policy to make sure all new capabilities will be enabled. | DeployIfNotExists, Disabled | 2.0.0 | | Configure Microsoft Defender for Servers plan (P1 OR P2) | Ensures that the selected Microsoft Defender for Servers subplan (P1 or P2) is enabled at the subscription level. This policy supports dynamic selection via parameters and enforces deployment if not already configured. | DeployIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.1.0 | | Configure Microsoft Defender for SQL to be enabled on Synapse workspaces | Enable Microsoft Defender for SQL on your Azure Synapse workspaces to detect anomalous activities indicating unusual and potentially harmful attempts to access or exploit SQL databases. | DeployIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.0.0 | | Configure Microsoft Defender for Storage to be enabled | Microsoft Defender for Storage is an Azure-native layer of security intelligence that detects potential threats to your storage accounts. This policy will enable all Defender for Storage capabilities; Activity Monitoring, Malware Scanning and Sensitive Data Threat Detection. To learn more about Defender for Storage capabilities and benefits, visit aka.ms/DefenderForStorage. | DeployIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.5.0 | | Configure Microsoft Defender threat protection for AI Services | New capabilities are continuously being added to threat protection for AI Services, which may require the user's explicit enablement. Use this policy to make sure all new capabilities will be enabled. | DeployIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.1.0 | | Configure selected Microsoft Defender for Cloud plans with managed extensions | Configures selected Defender for Cloud plans through Microsoft.Security/batchPricings/global. Unselected plans remain unchanged. Extensions managed by this policy are enabled for selected plans. | DeployIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.0.0 | | Configure SQL Virtual Machines to automatically install Azure Monitor Agent | Automate the deployment of Azure Monitor Agent extension on your Windows SQL Virtual Machines. Learn more: https://aka.ms/AMAOverview. | DeployIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.6.0 | | Configure SQL Virtual Machines to automatically install Microsoft Defender for SQL | Configure Windows SQL Virtual Machines to automatically install the Microsoft Defender for SQL extension. Microsoft Defender for SQL collects events from the agent and uses them to provide security alerts and tailored hardening tasks (recommendations). | DeployIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.6.0 | | Configure SQL Virtual Machines to automatically install Microsoft Defender for SQL and DCR with a Log Analytics workspace | Microsoft Defender for SQL collects events from the agent and uses them to provide security alerts and tailored hardening tasks (recommendations). Create a resource group, a Data Collection Rule and Log Analytics workspace in the same region as the machine. | DeployIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.9.0 | | Configure SQL Virtual Machines to automatically install Microsoft Defender for SQL and DCR with a user-defined LA workspace | Microsoft Defender for SQL collects events from the agent and uses them to provide security alerts and tailored hardening tasks (recommendations). Create a resource group and a Data Collection Rule in the same region as the user-defined Log Analytics workspace. | DeployIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.10.0 | | Configure SQL Virtual Machines to automatically install Microsoft Defender for SQL extension | Configure Windows SQL Virtual Machines to automatically install the Microsoft Defender for SQL extension. Microsoft Defender for SQL collects events from the agent and uses them to provide security alerts and tailored hardening tasks (recommendations). | DeployIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.0.0 | | Configure supported Linux virtual machine scale sets to automatically install the Guest Attestation extension | Configure supported Linux virtual machines scale sets to automatically install the Guest Attestation extension to allow Azure Security Center to proactively attest and monitor the boot integrity. Boot integrity is attested via Remote Attestation. | DeployIfNotExists, Disabled | 6.2.0 | | Configure supported Linux virtual machines to automatically enable Secure Boot | Configure supported Linux virtual machines to automatically enable Secure Boot to mitigate against malicious and unauthorized changes to the boot chain. Once enabled, only trusted bootloaders, kernel and kernel drivers will be allowed to run. | DeployIfNotExists, Disabled | 5.1.0 | | Configure supported Linux virtual machines to automatically install the Guest Attestation extension | Configure supported Linux virtual machines to automatically install the Guest Attestation extension to allow Azure Security Center to proactively attest and monitor the boot integrity. Boot integrity is attested via Remote Attestation. | DeployIfNotExists, Disabled | 7.2.0 | | Configure supported virtual machines to automatically enable vTPM | Configure supported virtual machines to automatically enable vTPM to facilitate Measured Boot and other OS security features that require a TPM. Once enabled, vTPM can be used to attest boot integrity. | DeployIfNotExists, Disabled | 2.0.1 | | Configure supported Windows virtual machine scale sets to automatically install the Guest Attestation extension | Configure supported Windows virtual machines scale sets to automatically install the Guest Attestation extension to allow Azure Security Center to proactively attest and monitor the boot integrity. Boot integrity is attested via Remote Attestation. | DeployIfNotExists, Disabled | 4.2.0 | | Configure supported Windows virtual machines to automatically enable Secure Boot | Configure supported Windows virtual machines to automatically enable Secure Boot to mitigate against malicious and unauthorized changes to the boot chain. Once enabled, only trusted bootloaders, kernel and kernel drivers will be allowed to run. | DeployIfNotExists, Disabled | 3.0.1 | | Configure supported Windows virtual machines to automatically install the Guest Attestation extension | Configure supported Windows virtual machines to automatically install the Guest Attestation extension to allow Azure Security Center to proactively attest and monitor the boot integrity. Boot integrity is attested via Remote Attestation. | DeployIfNotExists, Disabled | 5.2.0 | | Configure the Microsoft Defender for SQL Log Analytics workspace | Microsoft Defender for SQL collects events from the agent and uses them to provide security alerts and tailored hardening tasks (recommendations). Create a resource group and Log Analytics workspace in the same region as the machine. | DeployIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.5.0 | | Configure VMs created with Shared Image Gallery images to install the Guest Attestation extension | Configure virtual machines created with Shared Image Gallery images to automatically install the Guest Attestation extension to allow Azure Security Center to proactively attest and monitor the boot integrity. Boot integrity is attested via Remote Attestation. | DeployIfNotExists, Disabled | 2.1.0 | | Configure VMSS created with Shared Image Gallery images to install the Guest Attestation extension | Configure VMSS created with Shared Image Gallery images to automatically install the Guest Attestation extension to allow Azure Security Center to proactively attest and monitor the boot integrity. Boot integrity is attested via Remote Attestation. | DeployIfNotExists, Disabled | 2.2.0 | | Create and assign a built-in user-assigned managed identity | Create and assign a built-in user-assigned managed identity at scale to SQL virtual machines. | AuditIfNotExists, DeployIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.8.0 | | Deploy - Configure suppression rules for Azure Security Center alerts | Suppress Azure Security Center alerts to reduce alerts fatigue by deploying suppression rules on your management group or subscription. | deployIfNotExists | 1.0.0 | | Deploy export to Event Hub as a trusted service for Microsoft Defender for Cloud data | Enable export to Event Hub as a trusted service of Microsoft Defender for Cloud data. This policy deploys an export to Event Hub as a trusted service configuration with your conditions and target Event Hub on the assigned scope. To deploy this policy on newly created subscriptions, open the Compliance tab, select the relevant non-compliant assignment and create a remediation task. | DeployIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.0.0 | | Guest accounts with owner permissions on Azure resources should be removed | External accounts with owner permissions should be removed from your subscription in order to prevent unmonitored access. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.0.0 | | Guest accounts with read permissions on Azure resources should be removed | External accounts with read privileges should be removed from your subscription in order to prevent unmonitored access. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.0.0 | | Guest accounts with write permissions on Azure resources should be removed | External accounts with write privileges should be removed from your subscription in order to prevent unmonitored access. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.0.0 | | Guest Attestation extension should be installed on supported Linux virtual machines | Install Guest Attestation extension on supported Linux virtual machines to allow Azure Security Center to proactively attest and monitor the boot integrity. Once installed, boot integrity will be attested via Remote Attestation. This assessment applies to Trusted Launch and Confidential Linux virtual machines. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 6.1.0 | | Guest Attestation extension should be installed on supported Linux virtual machines scale sets | Install Guest Attestation extension on supported Linux virtual machines scale sets to allow Azure Security Center to proactively attest and monitor the boot integrity. Once installed, boot integrity will be attested via Remote Attestation. This assessment applies to Trusted Launch and Confidential Linux virtual machine scale sets. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 5.2.0 | | Guest Attestation extension should be installed on supported Windows virtual machines | Install Guest Attestation extension on supported virtual machines to allow Azure Security Center to proactively attest and monitor the boot integrity. Once installed, boot integrity will be attested via Remote Attestation. This assessment applies to Trusted Launch and Confidential Windows virtual machines. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 4.0.1 | | Guest Attestation extension should be installed on supported Windows virtual machines scale sets | Install Guest Attestation extension on supported virtual machines scale sets to allow Azure Security Center to proactively attest and monitor the boot integrity. Once installed, boot integrity will be attested via Remote Attestation. This assessment applies to Trusted Launch and Confidential Windows virtual machine scale sets. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 3.1.1 | | Guest Configuration extension should be installed on your machines | To ensure secure configurations of in-guest settings of your machine, install the Guest Configuration extension. In-guest settings that the extension monitors include the configuration of the operating system, application configuration or presence, and environment settings. Once installed, in-guest policies will be available such as 'Windows Exploit guard should be enabled'. Learn more at https://aka.ms/gcpol. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.0.3 | | Internet-facing virtual machines should be protected with network security groups | Protect your virtual machines from potential threats by restricting access to them with network security groups (NSG). Learn more about controlling traffic with NSGs at https://aka.ms/nsg-doc | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 3.0.0 | | IP Forwarding on your virtual machine should be disabled | Enabling IP forwarding on a virtual machine's NIC allows the machine to receive traffic addressed to other destinations. IP forwarding is rarely required (e.g., when using the VM as a network virtual appliance), and therefore, this should be reviewed by the network security team. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 3.0.0 | | Kubernetes Services should be upgraded to a non-vulnerable Kubernetes version | Upgrade your Kubernetes service cluster to a later Kubernetes version to protect against known vulnerabilities in your current Kubernetes version. Vulnerability CVE-2019-9946 has been patched in Kubernetes versions 1.11.9+, 1.12.7+, 1.13.5+, and 1.14.0+ | Audit, Disabled | 1.0.2 | | Linux virtual machines should use Secure Boot | To protect against the installation of malware-based rootkits and boot kits, enable Secure Boot on supported Linux virtual machines. Secure Boot ensures that only signed operating systems and drivers will be allowed to run. This assessment only applies to Linux virtual machines that have the Azure Monitor Agent installed. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.0.1 | | Log Analytics agent should be installed on your Cloud Services (extended support) role instances | Security Center collects data from your Cloud Services (extended support) role instances to monitor for security vulnerabilities and threats. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 2.0.0 | | Machines should have secret findings resolved | Audits virtual machines to detect whether they contain secret findings from the secret scanning solutions on your virtual machines. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.0.2 | | Management ports of virtual machines should be protected with just-in-time network access control | Possible network Just In Time (JIT) access will be monitored by Azure Security Center as recommendations | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 3.0.0 | | Microsoft Defender for Storage should be enabled | Microsoft Defender for Storage detects potential threats to your storage accounts. It helps prevent the three major impacts on your data and workload: malicious file uploads, sensitive data exfiltration, and data corruption. The new Defender for Storage plan includes Malware Scanning and Sensitive Data Threat Detection. This plan also provides a predictable pricing structure (per storage account) for control over coverage and costs. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.0.0 | | Non-internet-facing virtual machines should be protected with network security groups | Protect your non-internet-facing virtual machines from potential threats by restricting access with network security groups (NSG). Learn more about controlling traffic with NSGs at https://aka.ms/nsg-doc | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 3.0.0 | | Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) should be used on Kubernetes Services | To provide granular filtering on the actions that users can perform, use Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) to manage permissions in Kubernetes Service Clusters and configure relevant authorization policies. | Audit, Disabled | 1.1.0 | | Secure Boot should be enabled on supported Windows virtual machines | Enable Secure Boot on supported Windows virtual machines to mitigate against malicious and unauthorized changes to the boot chain. Once enabled, only trusted bootloaders, kernel and kernel drivers will be allowed to run. This assessment applies to Trusted Launch and Confidential Windows virtual machines. | Audit, Disabled | 4.0.1 | | Security Center standard pricing tier should be selected | The standard pricing tier enables threat detection for networks and virtual machines, providing threat intelligence, anomaly detection, and behavior analytics in Azure Security Center | Audit, Disabled | 1.1.0 | | Setup subscriptions to transition to an alternative vulnerability assessment solution | Microsoft Defender for cloud offers vulnerability scanning for your machines at no extra cost. Enabling this policy will cause Defender for Cloud to automatically propagate the findings from the built-in Microsoft Defender vulnerability management solution to all supported machines. | DeployIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.0.0-preview | | SQL databases should have vulnerability findings resolved | Monitor vulnerability assessment scan results and recommendations for how to remediate database vulnerabilities. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 4.1.0 | | Subscriptions should have a contact email address for security issues | To ensure the relevant people in your organization are notified when there is a potential security breach in one of your subscriptions, set a security contact to receive email notifications from Security Center. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.0.1 | | System updates should be installed on your machines (powered by Update Center) | Your machines are missing system, security, and critical updates. Software updates often include critical patches to security holes. Such holes are frequently exploited in malware attacks so it's vital to keep your software updated. To install all outstanding patches and secure your machines, follow the remediation steps. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.0.1 | | There should be more than one owner assigned to your subscription | It is recommended to designate more than one subscription owner in order to have administrator access redundancy. | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 3.0.0 | \ No newline at end of file | Virtual machines' Guest Configuration extension should be deployed with system-assigned managed identity | The Guest Configuration extension requires a system assigned managed identity. Azure virtual machines in the scope of this policy will be non-compliant when they have the Guest Configuration extension installed but do not have a system assigned managed identity. Learn more at https://aka.ms/gcpol | AuditIfNotExists, Disabled | 1.0.1 | \ No newline at end of file| vTPM should be enabled on supported virtual machines | Enable virtual TPM device on supported virtual machines to facilitate Measured Boot and other OS security features that require a TPM. Once enabled, vTPM can be used to attest boot integrity. This assessment only applies to trusted launch enabled virtual machines. | Audit, Disabled | 2.0.1 | \ No newline at end of file