| Category | Id | DisplayName | Description | Effect | Roles used | Details (UTC ymd) (i) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Azure Edge Hardware Center | 08a6b96f-576e-47a2-8511-119a212d344d | Azure Edge Hardware Center devices should have double encryption support enabled | Ensure that devices ordered from Azure Edge Hardware Center have double encryption support enabled, to secure the data at rest on the device. This option adds a second layer of data encryption. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) | |
| Machine Learning | 5853517a-63de-11ea-bc55-0242ac130003 | [Preview]: Configure allowed registries for specified Azure Machine Learning computes | Provide registries that are allowed in specified Azure Machine Learning computes and can be assigned at the workspace. For more information, visit https://aka.ms/amlpolicydoc. | Default: enforceSetting Allowed: (enforceSetting, disabled) |
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change: Major, suffix remains equal (3.0.0-preview > 4.0.0-preview) | |
| Machine Learning | 53c70b02-63dd-11ea-bc55-0242ac130003 | [Preview]: Configure allowed module authors for specified Azure Machine Learning computes | Provide allowed module authors in specified Azure Machine Learning computes and can be assigned at the workspace. For more information, visit https://aka.ms/amlpolicydoc. | Default: enforceSetting Allowed: (enforceSetting, disabled) |
2022-01-14 17:44:09
change: Major, suffix remains equal (3.0.0-preview > 4.0.0-preview) | |
| Machine Learning | 6a6f7384-63de-11ea-bc55-0242ac130003 | [Preview]: Configure code signing for training code for specified Azure Machine Learning computes | Provide code signing for training code in specified Azure Machine Learning computes and can be assigned at the workspace. For more information, visit https://aka.ms/amlpolicydoc. | Default: enforceSetting Allowed: (enforceSetting, disabled) |
2022-01-14 17:44:09
change: Major, suffix remains equal (3.1.0-preview > 4.0.0-preview) | |
| Monitoring | bacd7fca-1938-443d-aad6-a786107b1bfb | [Preview]: Configure Azure Arc-enabled Linux machines with Log Analytics agents connected to default Log Analytics workspace | Protect your Azure Arc-enabled Linux machines with Microsoft Defender for Cloud capabilities, by installing Log Analytics agents that send data to a default Log Analytics workspace created by Microsoft Defender for Cloud. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Contributor |
2022-01-07 18:14:35
add: bacd7fca-1938-443d-aad6-a786107b1bfb |
| Monitoring | 04c4380f-3fae-46e8-96c9-30193528f602 | [Preview]: Network traffic data collection agent should be installed on Linux virtual machines | Security Center uses the Microsoft Dependency agent to collect network traffic data from your Azure virtual machines to enable advanced network protection features such as traffic visualization on the network map, network hardening recommendations and specific network threats. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2022-01-07 18:14:35
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| Backup | 615b01c4-d565-4f6f-8c6e-d130268e3a1a | [Preview]: Configure backup for blobs on storage accounts with a given tag to an existing backup vault in the same region | Enforce backup for blobs on all storage accounts that contain a given tag to a central backup vault. Doing this can help you manage backup of blobs contained across multiple storage accounts at scale. For more details, refer to https://aka.ms/AB-BlobBackupAzPolicies | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) | Backup Contributor |
2022-01-07 18:14:35
change: Major, suffix remains equal (1.0.0-preview > 2.0.0-preview) |
| Monitoring | 594c1276-f44f-482d-9910-71fac2ce5ae0 | [Preview]: Configure Azure Arc-enabled Windows machines with Log Analytics agents connected to default Log Analytics workspace | Protect your Azure Arc-enabled Windows machines with Microsoft Defender for Cloud capabilities, by installing Log Analytics agents that send data to a default Log Analytics workspace created by Microsoft Defender for Cloud. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Contributor |
2022-01-07 18:14:35
add: 594c1276-f44f-482d-9910-71fac2ce5ae0 |
| Backup | 958dbd4e-0e20-4385-a082-d3f20c2a6ad8 | [Preview]: Configure blob backup for all storage accounts that do not contain a given tag to a backup vault in the same region | Enforce backup for blobs on all storage accounts that do not contain a given tag to a central backup vault. Doing this can help you manage backup of blobs contained across multiple storage accounts at scale. For more details, refer to https://aka.ms/AB-BlobBackupAzPolicies | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) | Backup Contributor |
2022-01-07 18:14:35
change: Major, suffix remains equal (1.0.0-preview > 2.0.0-preview) |
| Bot Service | 52152f42-0dda-40d9-976e-abb1acdd611e | Bot Service should have isolated mode enabled | Bots should be set to 'isolated only' mode. This setting configures Bot Service channels that require traffic over the public internet to be disabled. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2022-01-07 18:14:35
change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) | |
| Security Center | ae89ebca-1c92-4898-ac2c-9f63decb045c | 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. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2022-01-07 18:14:35
change: Patch (1.0.1 > 1.0.2) | |
| App Service | b607c5de-e7d9-4eee-9e5c-83f1bcee4fa0 | [Deprecated]: Diagnostic logs in App Services should be enabled | Audit enabling of diagnostic logs on the app. This enables you to recreate activity trails for investigation purposes if a security incident occurs or your network is compromised | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2022-01-07 18:14:35
change: Version remains equal, new suffix: deprecated (2.0.0 > 2.0.0-deprecated) | |
| Security Center | 5f0f936f-2f01-4bf5-b6be-d423792fa562 | Container registry images should have vulnerability findings resolved | Container image vulnerability assessment scans your registry for security vulnerabilities and exposes detailed findings for each image. Resolving the vulnerabilities can greatly improve your containers' security posture and protect them from attacks. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2022-01-07 18:14:35
change: Patch (2.0.0 > 2.0.1) | |
| Storage | bc1b984e-ddae-40cc-801a-050a030e4fbe | Storage accounts should have shared access signature (SAS) policies configured | Ensure storage accounts have shared access signature (SAS) expiration policy enabled. Users use a SAS to delegate access to resources in Azure Storage account. And SAS expiration policy recommend upper expiration limit when a user creates a SAS token. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2022-01-07 18:14:35
add: bc1b984e-ddae-40cc-801a-050a030e4fbe | |
| SQL | 0a370ff3-6cab-4e85-8995-295fd854c5b8 | SQL servers should use customer-managed keys to encrypt data at rest | Implementing Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) with your own key provides increased transparency and control over the TDE Protector, increased security with an HSM-backed external service, and promotion of separation of duties. This recommendation applies to organizations with a related compliance requirement. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2022-01-07 18:14:35
change: Patch (2.0.0 > 2.0.1) | |
| Monitoring | 2f2ee1de-44aa-4762-b6bd-0893fc3f306d | [Preview]: Network traffic data collection agent should be installed on Windows virtual machines | Security Center uses the Microsoft Dependency agent to collect network traffic data from your Azure virtual machines to enable advanced network protection features such as traffic visualization on the network map, network hardening recommendations and specific network threats. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2022-01-07 18:14:35
change: Patch, suffix remains equal (1.0.1-preview > 1.0.2-preview) | |
| Internet of Things | 27d4c5ec-8820-443f-91fe-1215e96f64b2 | Azure Device Update for IoT Hub 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 Azure Device Update for IoT Hub accounts, data leakage risks are reduced. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2022-01-07 18:14:35
add: 27d4c5ec-8820-443f-91fe-1215e96f64b2 | |
| Azure Purview | 9259053b-ddb8-40ab-842a-0aef19d0ade4 | Azure Purview 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 Azure Purview accounts instead of the entire service, you'll also be protected against data leakage risks. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/purview-private-link. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
2022-01-07 18:14:35
add: 9259053b-ddb8-40ab-842a-0aef19d0ade4 | |
| Monitoring | 7f89b1eb-583c-429a-8828-af049802c1d9 | Audit diagnostic setting | Audit diagnostic setting for selected resource types | Fixed: AuditIfNotExists |
2022-01-07 18:14:35
change: Minor (1.0.0 > 1.1.0) | |
| Security Center | 0fc39691-5a3f-4e3e-94ee-2e6447309ad9 | Running container images should have vulnerability findings resolved | Container image vulnerability assessment scans container images running on your Kubernetes clusters for security vulnerabilities and exposes detailed findings for each image. Resolving the vulnerabilities can greatly improve your containers' security posture and protect them from attacks. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2022-01-07 18:14:35
change: Patch (1.0.0 > 1.0.1) | |
| Monitoring | 8e3e61b3-0b32-22d5-4edf-55f87fdb5955 | Configure Log Analytics workspace and automation account to centralize logs and monitoring | Deploy resource group containing Log Analytics workspace and linked automation account to centralize logs and monitoring. The automation account is aprerequisite for solutions like Updates and Change Tracking. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) | Contributor |
2022-01-07 18:14:35
change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) |
| Kubernetes | 440b515e-a580-421e-abeb-b159a61ddcbc | [Deprecated]: Kubernetes cluster containers should only listen on allowed ports | Restrict containers to listen only on allowed ports to secure access to the Kubernetes cluster. The policy is deprecating since container port is only informative field which cannot decide the port container is actually using. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2022-01-07 18:14:35
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| Network | 5e1cd26a-5090-4fdb-9d6a-84a90335e22d | Configure network security groups to use specific workspace for traffic analytics | If it already has traffic analytics enabled, then policy will overwrite its existing settings with the ones provided during policy creation. Traffic analytics is a cloud-based solution that provides visibility into user and application activity in cloud networks. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Contributor |
2021-12-10 17:29:56
change: Patch (1.0.0 > 1.0.1) |
| Kubernetes | a6f560f4-f582-4b67-b123-a37dcd1bf7ea | Configure Kubernetes clusters with specified GitOps configuration using HTTPS secrets | Deploy a 'sourceControlConfiguration' to Kubernetes clusters to assure that the clusters get their source of truth for workloads and configurations from the defined git repo. This definition requires HTTPS user and key secrets stored in Key Vault. For instructions, visit https://aka.ms/K8sGitOpsPolicy. | Default: deployIfNotExists Allowed: (deployIfNotExists, auditIfNotExists, disabled) | Contributor |
2021-12-10 17:29:56
change: Patch (1.0.0 > 1.0.1) |
| Network | e920df7f-9a64-4066-9b58-52684c02a091 | Configure network security groups to enable traffic analytics | Traffic analytics can be enabled for all network security groups hosted in a particular region with the settings provided during policy creation. If it already has Traffic analytics enabled, then policy does not overwrite its settings. Flow Logs are also enabled for the Network security groups that do not have it. Traffic analytics is a cloud-based solution that provides visibility into user and application activity in cloud networks. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Contributor |
2021-12-10 17:29:56
change: Patch (1.0.0 > 1.0.1) |
| Kubernetes | c050047b-b21b-4822-8a2d-c1e37c3c0c6a | Configure Kubernetes clusters with specified GitOps configuration using SSH secrets | Deploy a 'sourceControlConfiguration' to Kubernetes clusters to assure that the clusters get their source of truth for workloads and configurations from the defined git repo. This definition requires a SSH private key secret in Key Vault. For instructions, visit https://aka.ms/K8sGitOpsPolicy. | Default: deployIfNotExists Allowed: (deployIfNotExists, auditIfNotExists, disabled) | Contributor |
2021-12-10 17:29:56
change: Patch (1.0.0 > 1.0.1) |
| Network | 0db34a60-64f4-4bf6-bd44-f95c16cf34b9 | Deploy a flow log resource with target network security group | Configures flow log for specific network security group. It will allow to log information about IP traffic flowing through an network security group. Flow log helps to identify unknown or undesired traffic, verify network isolation and compliance with enterprise access rules, analyze network flows from compromised IPs and network interfaces. | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
2021-12-10 17:29:56
change: Patch (1.0.0 > 1.0.1) |
| Security Center | c25d9a16-bc35-4e15-a7e5-9db606bf9ed4 | [Deprecated]: Azure Defender for container registries should be enabled | Azure Defender for container registries provides vulnerability scanning of any images pulled within the last 30 days, pushed to your registry, or imported, and exposes detailed findings per image. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Version remains equal, new suffix: deprecated (1.0.3 > 1.0.3-deprecated) | |
| Backup | 345fa903-145c-4fe1-8bcd-93ec2adccde8 | Configure backup on virtual machines with a given tag to an existing recovery services vault in the same location | Enforce backup for all virtual machines by backing them up to an existing central recovery services vault in the same location and subscription as the virtual machine. Doing this is useful when there is a central team in your organization managing backups for all resources in a subscription. You can optionally include virtual machines containing a specified tag to control the scope of assignment. See https://aka.ms/AzureVMCentralBackupIncludeTag. | Default: deployIfNotExists Allowed: (deployIfNotExists, auditIfNotExists, disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor Backup Contributor |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Major (4.0.0 > 5.0.0) |
| Security Center | 2370a3c1-4a25-4283-a91a-c9c1a145fb2f | Configure Azure Defender for DNS to be enabled | Azure Defender for DNS provides an additional layer of protection for your cloud resources by continuously monitoring all DNS queries from your Azure resources. Azure Defender alerts you about suspicious activity at the DNS layer. Learn more about the capabilities of Azure Defender for DNS at https://aka.ms/defender-for-dns . Enabling this Azure Defender plan results in charges. Learn about the pricing details per region on Security Center's pricing page: https://aka.ms/pricing-security-center . | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Security Admin |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Patch (1.0.0 > 1.0.1) |
| Kubernetes | 56d0a13f-712f-466b-8416-56fb354fb823 | Kubernetes cluster containers should not use forbidden sysctl interfaces | Containers should not use forbidden sysctl interfaces in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Patch (4.0.1 > 4.0.2) | |
| Guest Configuration | f6ec09a3-78bf-4f8f-99dc-6c77182d0f99 | Audit Linux machines that have accounts without passwords | Requires that prerequisites are deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. Machines are non-compliant if Linux machines that have accounts without passwords | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Minor (1.1.0 > 1.2.0) | |
| Kubernetes | f06ddb64-5fa3-4b77-b166-acb36f7f6042 | 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 recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Patch (4.0.2 > 4.0.3) | |
| Guest Configuration | 331e8ea8-378a-410f-a2e5-ae22f38bb0da | Deploy the Linux Guest Configuration extension to enable Guest Configuration assignments on Linux VMs | This policy deploys the Linux Guest Configuration extension to Linux virtual machines hosted in Azure that are supported by Guest Configuration. The Linux Guest Configuration extension is a prerequisite for all Linux Guest Configuration assignments and must be deployed to machines before using any Linux Guest Configuration policy definition. For more information on Guest Configuration, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Minor (1.1.1 > 1.2.0) |
| Kubernetes | 3fc4dc25-5baf-40d8-9b05-7fe74c1bc64e | Kubernetes clusters should use internal load balancers | Use internal load balancers to make a Kubernetes service accessible only to applications running in the same virtual network as the Kubernetes cluster. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Patch (6.0.0 > 6.0.1) | |
| Kubernetes | f85eb0dd-92ee-40e9-8a76-db25a507d6d3 | Kubernetes cluster containers should only use allowed ProcMountType | Pod containers can only use allowed ProcMountTypes in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Patch (5.0.1 > 5.0.2) | |
| Kubernetes | c26596ff-4d70-4e6a-9a30-c2506bd2f80c | 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 AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Patch (4.0.1 > 4.0.2) | |
| Guest Configuration | 630c64f9-8b6b-4c64-b511-6544ceff6fd6 | Authentication to Linux machines should require SSH keys | Although SSH itself provides an encrypted connection, using passwords with SSH still leaves the VM vulnerable to brute-force attacks. The most secure option for authenticating to an Azure Linux virtual machine over SSH is with a public-private key pair, also known as SSH keys. Learn more: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-machines/linux/create-ssh-keys-detailed. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Minor (2.1.0 > 2.2.0) | |
| Kubernetes | 9f061a12-e40d-4183-a00e-171812443373 | 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. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Patch (2.1.1 > 2.1.2) | |
| Security Center | c9ddb292-b203-4738-aead-18e2716e858f | Configure Microsoft Defender for Containers to be enabled | Microsoft Defender for Containers provides hardening, vulnerability assessment and run-time protections for your Azure, hybrid, and multi-cloud Kubernetes environments. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Security Admin |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
add: c9ddb292-b203-4738-aead-18e2716e858f |
| Guest Configuration | 1e7fed80-8321-4605-b42c-65fc300f23a3 | Linux machines should have Log Analytics agent installed on Azure Arc | Machines are non-compliant if Log Analytics agent is not installed on Azure Arc enabled Linux server. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Minor (1.0.0 > 1.1.0) | |
| Guest Configuration | f19aa1c1-6b91-4c27-ae6a-970279f03db9 | [Deprecated]: Deploy prerequisites to audit Linux VMs that do not have the passwd file permissions set to 0644 | This policy creates a Guest Configuration assignment to audit Linux virtual machines that do not have the passwd file permissions set to 0644. It also creates a system-assigned managed identity and deploys the VM extension for Guest Configuration. This policy should only be used along with its corresponding audit policy in an initiative. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Minor, suffix remains equal (3.0.0-deprecated > 3.1.0-deprecated) |
| Security Center | 133047bf-1369-41e3-a3be-74a11ed1395a | [Deprecated]: Configure Azure Defender for Kubernetes to be enabled | Azure Defender for Kubernetes provides real-time threat protection for containerized environments and generates alerts for suspicious activities. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Security Admin |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
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| Guest Configuration | 497dff13-db2a-4c0f-8603-28fa3b331ab6 | Add system-assigned managed identity to enable Guest Configuration assignments on VMs with a user-assigned identity | This policy adds a system-assigned managed identity to virtual machines hosted in Azure that are supported by Guest Configuration and have at least one user-assigned identity but do not have a system-assigned managed identity. A system-assigned managed identity is a prerequisite for all Guest Configuration assignments and must be added to machines before using any Guest Configuration policy definitions. For more information on Guest Configuration, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | Fixed: modify | Contributor |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Minor (1.0.0 > 1.1.0) |
| Guest Configuration | 0447bc18-e2f7-4c0d-aa20-bff034275be1 | Audit Linux machines that have the specified applications installed | Requires that prerequisites are deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. Machines are non-compliant if the Chef InSpec resource indicates that one or more of the packages provided by the parameter are installed. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Minor (3.1.0 > 3.2.0) | |
| Guest Configuration | fb27e9e0-526e-4ae1-89f2-a2a0bf0f8a50 | [Deprecated]: Deploy prerequisites to enable Guest Configuration Policy on Linux VMs. | This policy creates a system-assigned managed identity and deploys the VM extension for Guest Configuration on Linux VMs. This is a prerequisite for Guest Configuration Policy and must be assigned to the scope before using any Guest Configuration policy. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Minor, suffix remains equal (3.0.0-deprecated > 3.1.0-deprecated) |
| Backup | 83644c87-93dd-49fe-bf9f-6aff8fd0834e | Configure backup on virtual machines with a given tag to a new recovery services vault with a default policy | Enforce backup for all virtual machines by deploying a recovery services vault in the same location and resource group as the virtual machine. Doing this is useful when different application teams in your organization are allocated separate resource groups and need to manage their own backups and restores. You can optionally include virtual machines containing a specified tag to control the scope of assignment. See https://aka.ms/AzureVMAppCentricBackupIncludeTag. | Default: deployIfNotExists Allowed: (deployIfNotExists, auditIfNotExists, disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor Backup Contributor |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Major (4.0.0 > 5.0.0) |
| Kubernetes | b2fd3e59-6390-4f2b-8247-ea676bd03e2d | [Deprecated]: Enforce unique ingress hostnames across namespaces in Kubernetes cluster | This policy enforces unique ingress hostnames across namespaces in a Kubernetes cluster. For instructions on using this policy, please go to https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
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| Guest Configuration | ec49586f-4939-402d-a29e-6ff502b20592 | [Deprecated]: Deploy prerequisites to audit Linux VMs that allow remote connections from accounts without passwords | This policy creates a Guest Configuration assignment to audit Linux virtual machines that allow remote connections from accounts without passwords. It also creates a system-assigned managed identity and deploys the VM extension for Guest Configuration. This policy should only be used along with its corresponding audit policy in an initiative. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Minor, suffix remains equal (3.0.0-deprecated > 3.1.0-deprecated) |
| Security Center | 1f725891-01c0-420a-9059-4fa46cb770b7 | Configure Azure Defender for Key Vaults to be enabled | Azure 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. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Security Admin |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Patch (1.0.0 > 1.0.1) |
| Backup | 09ce66bc-1220-4153-8104-e3f51c936913 | Configure backup on virtual machines without a given tag to an existing recovery services vault in the same location | Enforce backup for all virtual machines by backing them up to an existing central recovery services vault in the same location and subscription as the virtual machine. Doing this is useful when there is a central team in your organization managing backups for all resources in a subscription. You can optionally exclude virtual machines containing a specified tag to control the scope of assignment. See https://aka.ms/AzureVMCentralBackupExcludeTag. | Default: deployIfNotExists Allowed: (deployIfNotExists, auditIfNotExists, disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor Backup Contributor |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Major (4.0.0 > 5.0.0) |
| Guest Configuration | 884b209a-963b-4520-8006-d20cb3c213e0 | [Deprecated]: Deploy prerequisites to audit Linux VMs that have the specified applications installed | This policy creates a Guest Configuration assignment to audit Linux virtual machines that have the specified applications installed. It also creates a system-assigned managed identity and deploys the VM extension for Guest Configuration. This policy should only be used along with its corresponding audit policy in an initiative. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
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| Guest Configuration | 3470477a-b35a-49db-aca5-1073d04524fe | [Deprecated]: Deploy prerequisites to audit Linux VMs that have accounts without passwords | This policy creates a Guest Configuration assignment to audit Linux virtual machines that have accounts without passwords. It also creates a system-assigned managed identity and deploys the VM extension for Guest Configuration. This policy should only be used along with its corresponding audit policy in an initiative. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
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| Guest Configuration | fc9b3da7-8347-4380-8e70-0a0361d8dedd | 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. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Minor (1.2.0 > 1.3.0) | |
| Security Center | d3d1e68e-49d4-4b56-acff-93cef644b432 | [Deprecated]: Configure Azure Defender for container registries to be enabled | Azure Defender for container registries provides vulnerability scanning of any images pulled within the last 30 days, pushed to your registry, or imported, and exposes detailed findings per image. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Security Admin |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
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| Guest Configuration | 5b842acb-0fe7-41b0-9f40-880ec4ad84d8 | [Deprecated]: Show audit results from Linux VMs that have the specified applications installed | This policy should only be used along with its corresponding deploy policy in an initiative. This definition allows Azure Policy to process the results of auditing Linux virtual machines that have the specified applications installed. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: auditIfNotExists |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
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| Guest Configuration | fee5cb2b-9d9b-410e-afe3-2902d90d0004 | [Deprecated]: Show audit results from Linux VMs that do not have the specified applications installed | This policy should only be used along with its corresponding deploy policy in an initiative. This definition allows Azure Policy to process the results of auditing Linux virtual machines that do not have the specified applications installed. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: auditIfNotExists |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Minor, suffix remains equal (3.0.0-deprecated > 3.1.0-deprecated) | |
| Monitoring | a499fed8-bcc8-4195-b154-641f14743757 | Azure Monitor Private Link Scope should block access to non private link resources | Azure Private Link lets you connect your virtual networks to Azure resources through a private endpoint to an Azure Monitor Private Link scope (AMPLS). Private Link Access modes are set on your AMPLS to control whether ingestion and query requests from your networks can reach all resources, or only Private Link resources (to prevent data exfiltration). Learn more about private links at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-monitor/logs/private-link-security#private-link-access-modes-private-only-vs-open. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: a499fed8-bcc8-4195-b154-641f14743757 | |
| Security Center | 523b5cd1-3e23-492f-a539-13118b6d1e3a | [Deprecated]: Azure Defender for Kubernetes should be enabled | Azure Defender for Kubernetes provides real-time threat protection for containerized environments and generates alerts for suspicious activities. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Version remains equal, new suffix: deprecated (1.0.3 > 1.0.3-deprecated) | |
| Compute | 7c1b1214-f927-48bf-8882-84f0af6588b1 | Resource logs in Virtual Machine Scale Sets should be enabled | It is recommended to enable Logs so that activity trail can be recreated when investigations are required in the event of an incident or a compromise. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Minor (2.0.1 > 2.1.0) | |
| SQL | ac01ad65-10e5-46df-bdd9-6b0cad13e1d2 | SQL managed instances should use customer-managed keys to encrypt data at rest | Implementing Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) with your own key provides you with increased transparency and control over the TDE Protector, increased security with an HSM-backed external service, and promotion of separation of duties. This recommendation applies to organizations with a related compliance requirement. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Major, old suffix: preview (1.0.0-preview > 2.0.0) | |
| SQL | 048248b0-55cd-46da-b1ff-39efd52db260 | [Deprecated]: SQL managed instances should use customer-managed keys to encrypt data at rest | This policy is deprecated. Please use /providers/Microsoft.Authorization/policyDefinitions/ac01ad65-10e5-46df-bdd9-6b0cad13e1d2 instead | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Version remains equal, new suffix: deprecated (1.0.2 > 1.0.2-deprecated) | |
| Security Center | b7021b2b-08fd-4dc0-9de7-3c6ece09faf9 | Configure Azure Defender for Resource Manager to be enabled | Azure Defender for Resource Manager automatically monitors the resource management operations in your organization. Azure Defender detects threats and alerts you about suspicious activity. Learn more about the capabilities of Azure Defender for Resource Manager at https://aka.ms/defender-for-resource-manager . Enabling this Azure Defender plan results in charges. Learn about the pricing details per region on Security Center's pricing page: https://aka.ms/pricing-security-center . | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Security Admin |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Patch (1.0.0 > 1.0.1) |
| Kubernetes | e345eecc-fa47-480f-9e88-67dcc122b164 | Kubernetes cluster containers CPU and memory resource limits should not exceed the specified limits | Enforce container CPU and memory resource limits to prevent resource exhaustion attacks in a Kubernetes cluster. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Patch (7.0.0 > 7.0.1) | |
| Network | 564feb30-bf6a-4854-b4bb-0d2d2d1e6c66 | 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. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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change: Major (1.0.1 > 2.0.0) | |
| Guest Configuration | 4d1c04de-2172-403f-901b-90608c35c721 | [Deprecated]: Deploy prerequisites to audit Linux VMs that do not have the specified applications installed | This policy creates a Guest Configuration assignment to audit Linux virtual machines that do not have the specified applications installed. It also creates a system-assigned managed identity and deploys the VM extension for Guest Configuration. This policy should only be used along with its corresponding audit policy in an initiative. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Minor, suffix remains equal (3.0.0-deprecated > 3.1.0-deprecated) |
| Guest Configuration | 385f5831-96d4-41db-9a3c-cd3af78aaae6 | Deploy the Windows Guest Configuration extension to enable Guest Configuration assignments on Windows VMs | This policy deploys the Windows Guest Configuration extension to Windows virtual machines hosted in Azure that are supported by Guest Configuration. The Windows Guest Configuration extension is a prerequisite for all Windows Guest Configuration assignments and must be deployed to machines before using any Windows Guest Configuration policy definition. For more information on Guest Configuration, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Minor (1.1.0 > 1.2.0) |
| Kubernetes | 82985f06-dc18-4a48-bc1c-b9f4f0098cfe | Kubernetes cluster pods should only use approved host network and port range | Restrict pod access to the host network and the allowable host port range in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of CIS 5.2.4 which is intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Patch (4.0.1 > 4.0.2) | |
| Backup | 98d0b9f8-fd90-49c9-88e2-d3baf3b0dd86 | Configure backup on virtual machines without a given tag to a new recovery services vault with a default policy | Enforce backup for all virtual machines by deploying a recovery services vault in the same location and resource group as the virtual machine. Doing this is useful when different application teams in your organization are allocated separate resource groups and need to manage their own backups and restores. You can optionally exclude virtual machines containing a specified tag to control the scope of assignment. See https://aka.ms/AzureVMAppCentricBackupExcludeTag. | Default: deployIfNotExists Allowed: (deployIfNotExists, auditIfNotExists, disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor Backup Contributor |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Major (4.0.0 > 5.0.0) |
| Kubernetes | 440b515e-a580-421e-abeb-b159a61ddcbc | [Deprecated]: Kubernetes cluster containers should only listen on allowed ports | Restrict containers to listen only on allowed ports to secure access to the Kubernetes cluster. The policy is deprecating since container port is only informative field which cannot decide the port container is actually using. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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change: Patch (6.1.1 > 6.1.2) | |
| Kubernetes | 0adc5395-9169-4b9b-8687-af838d69410a | [Preview]: Configure Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes clusters to install the Azure Policy extension | Deploy Azure Policy's extension for Azure Arc to provide at-scale enforcements and safeguard your Arc enabled Kubernetes clusters in a centralized, consistent manner. Learn more at https://aka.ms/akspolicydoc. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Kubernetes Extension Contributor |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
add: 0adc5395-9169-4b9b-8687-af838d69410a |
| SQL | 0a370ff3-6cab-4e85-8995-295fd854c5b8 | SQL servers should use customer-managed keys to encrypt data at rest | Implementing Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) with your own key provides increased transparency and control over the TDE Protector, increased security with an HSM-backed external service, and promotion of separation of duties. This recommendation applies to organizations with a related compliance requirement. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Major, old suffix: preview (1.0.0-preview > 2.0.0) | |
| Kubernetes | df49d893-a74c-421d-bc95-c663042e5b80 | 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 AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Patch (4.0.1 > 4.0.2) | |
| Kubernetes | 95edb821-ddaf-4404-9732-666045e056b4 | 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 AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Patch (7.0.0 > 7.0.1) | |
| Video Analyzers | 165a4137-c3ed-4fd0-a17f-1c8a80266580 | Video Analyzer accounts should use customer-managed keys to encrypt data at rest | Use customer-managed keys to manage the encryption at rest of your Video Analyzer accounts. By default, customer data is encrypted with service-managed keys, but customer-managed keys are commonly required to meet regulatory compliance standards. Customer-managed keys enable the data to be encrypted with an Azure Key Vault key created and owned by you. You have full control and responsibility for the key lifecycle, including rotation and management. Learn more at https://aka.ms/videoanalyzerscmkdocs. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
add: 165a4137-c3ed-4fd0-a17f-1c8a80266580 | |
| Kubernetes | 511f5417-5d12-434d-ab2e-816901e72a5e | Kubernetes cluster containers should only use allowed AppArmor profiles | Containers should only use allowed AppArmor profiles in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Patch (4.0.1 > 4.0.2) | |
| Backup | 958dbd4e-0e20-4385-a082-d3f20c2a6ad8 | [Preview]: Configure blob backup for all storage accounts that do not contain a given tag to a backup vault in the same region | Enforce backup for blobs on all storage accounts that do not contain a given tag to a central backup vault. Doing this can help you manage backup of blobs contained across multiple storage accounts at scale. For more details, refer to https://aka.ms/AB-BlobBackupAzPolicies | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) | Backup Contributor |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
add: 958dbd4e-0e20-4385-a082-d3f20c2a6ad8 |
| Kubernetes | 36a27de4-199b-40fb-b336-945a8475d6c5 | Configure AAD integrated Azure Kubernetes Service Clusters with required Admin Group Access | Ensure to improve cluster security by centrally govern Administrator access to Azure Active Directory integrated AKS clusters. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Azure Kubernetes Service Contributor Role |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
add: 36a27de4-199b-40fb-b336-945a8475d6c5 |
| Kubernetes | 975ce327-682c-4f2e-aa46-b9598289b86c | Kubernetes cluster containers should only use allowed seccomp profiles | Pod containers can only use allowed seccomp profiles in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Patch (4.0.1 > 4.0.2) | |
| Kubernetes | febd0533-8e55-448f-b837-bd0e06f16469 | 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. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Patch (7.0.3 > 7.0.4) | |
| Guest Configuration | c40c9087-1981-4e73-9f53-39743eda9d05 | [Deprecated]: Show audit results from Linux VMs that have accounts without passwords | This policy should only be used along with its corresponding deploy policy in an initiative. This definition allows Azure Policy to process the results of auditing Linux virtual machines that have accounts without passwords. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: auditIfNotExists |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
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| Guest Configuration | b18175dd-c599-4c64-83ba-bb018a06d35b | [Deprecated]: Show audit results from Linux VMs that do not have the passwd file permissions set to 0644 | This policy should only be used along with its corresponding deploy policy in an initiative. This definition allows Azure Policy to process the results of auditing Linux virtual machines that do not have the passwd file permissions set to 0644. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: auditIfNotExists |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Minor, suffix remains equal (3.0.0-deprecated > 3.1.0-deprecated) | |
| Security Center | 1c988dd6-ade4-430f-a608-2a3e5b0a6d38 | Microsoft Defender for Containers should be enabled | Microsoft Defender for Containers provides hardening, vulnerability assessment and run-time protections for your Azure, hybrid, and multi-cloud Kubernetes environments. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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add: 1c988dd6-ade4-430f-a608-2a3e5b0a6d38 | |
| Guest Configuration | c648fbbb-591c-4acd-b465-ce9b176ca173 | Audit Windows machines that do not have the specified Windows PowerShell execution policy | Requires that prerequisites are deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. Machines are non-compliant if the Windows PowerShell command Get-ExecutionPolicy returns a value other than what was selected in the policy parameter. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Minor (1.0.0 > 1.1.0) | |
| Guest Configuration | ea53dbee-c6c9-4f0e-9f9e-de0039b78023 | Audit Linux machines that allow remote connections from accounts without passwords | Requires that prerequisites are deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. Machines are non-compliant if Linux machines that allow remote connections from accounts without passwords | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Minor (1.1.0 > 1.2.0) | |
| Kubernetes | 233a2a17-77ca-4fb1-9b6b-69223d272a44 | 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 AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Patch (6.1.1 > 6.1.2) | |
| Kubernetes | a8eff44f-8c92-45c3-a3fb-9880802d67a7 | Deploy Azure Policy Add-on to Azure Kubernetes Service clusters | Use Azure Policy Add-on to manage and report on the compliance state of your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters. For more information, see https://aka.ms/akspolicydoc. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Azure Kubernetes Service Contributor Role |
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change: Major (2.0.0 > 3.0.0) |
| Monitoring | c9c29499-c1d1-4195-99bd-2ec9e3a9dc89 | Deploy Diagnostic Settings for Network Security Groups | This policy automatically deploys diagnostic settings to network security groups. A storage account with name '{storagePrefixParameter}{NSGLocation}' will be automatically created. | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Monitoring Contributor Storage Account Contributor |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) |
| Monitoring | bec5db8e-c4e3-40f9-a545-e0bd00065c82 | Configure Azure Monitor Private Link Scope to block access to non private link resources | Azure Private Link lets you connect your virtual networks to Azure resources through a private endpoint to an Azure Monitor Private Link scope (AMPLS). Private Link Access modes are set on your AMPLS to control whether ingestion and query requests from your networks can reach all resources, or only Private Link resources (to prevent data exfiltration). Learn more about private links at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-monitor/logs/private-link-security#private-link-access-modes-private-only-vs-open. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | Contributor |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
add: bec5db8e-c4e3-40f9-a545-e0bd00065c82 |
| Guest Configuration | 2d67222d-05fd-4526-a171-2ee132ad9e83 | [Deprecated]: Show audit results from Linux VMs that allow remote connections from accounts without passwords | This policy should only be used along with its corresponding deploy policy in an initiative. This definition allows Azure Policy to process the results of auditing Linux virtual machines that allow remote connections from accounts without passwords. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: auditIfNotExists |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Minor, suffix remains equal (3.0.0-deprecated > 3.1.0-deprecated) | |
| App Platform | af35e2a4-ef96-44e7-a9ae-853dd97032c4 | Azure Spring Cloud should use network injection | Azure Spring Cloud instances should use virtual network injection for the following purposes: 1. Isolate Azure Spring Cloud from Internet. 2. Enable Azure Spring Cloud to interact with systems in either on premises data centers or Azure service in other virtual networks. 3. Empower customers to control inbound and outbound network communications for Azure Spring Cloud. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled, Deny) |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Minor (1.0.0 > 1.1.0) | |
| Kubernetes | 1ddac26b-ed48-4c30-8cc5-3a68c79b8001 | Kubernetes clusters should not allow endpoint edit permissions of ClusterRole/system:aggregate-to-edit | ClusterRole/system:aggregate-to-edit should not allow endpoint edit permissions due to CVE-2021-25740, Endpoint & EndpointSlice permissions allow cross-Namespace forwarding, https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/103675. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Patch (1.0.0 > 1.0.1) | |
| Kubernetes | 47a1ee2f-2a2a-4576-bf2a-e0e36709c2b8 | Kubernetes cluster containers should not share host process ID or host IPC namespace | Block pod containers from sharing the host process ID namespace and host IPC namespace in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of CIS 5.2.2 and CIS 5.2.3 which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Patch (3.0.1 > 3.0.2) | |
| Kubernetes | 46592696-4c7b-4bf3-9e45-6c2763bdc0a6 | Kubernetes cluster pods should use specified labels | Use specified labels to identify the pods in a Kubernetes cluster. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Patch (6.0.0 > 6.0.1) | |
| SQL | 0d134df8-db83-46fb-ad72-fe0c9428c8dd | [Deprecated]: SQL servers should use customer-managed keys to encrypt data at rest | This policy is deprecated. Please use /providers/Microsoft.Authorization/policyDefinitions/0a370ff3-6cab-4e85-8995-295fd854c5b8 instead. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Version remains equal, new suffix: deprecated (2.0.1 > 2.0.1-deprecated) | |
| Kubernetes | 16697877-1118-4fb1-9b65-9898ec2509ec | Kubernetes cluster pods should only use allowed volume types | Pods can only use allowed volume types in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Patch (3.0.1 > 3.0.2) | |
| Guest Configuration | d3b823c9-e0fc-4453-9fb2-8213b7338523 | Audit Linux machines that don't have the specified applications installed | Requires that prerequisites are deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. Machines are non-compliant if the Chef InSpec resource indicates that one or more of the packages provided by the parameter are not installed. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Minor (3.0.0 > 3.1.0) | |
| Kubernetes | 1c6e92c9-99f0-4e55-9cf2-0c234dc48f99 | Kubernetes clusters should not allow container privilege escalation | Do not allow containers to run with privilege escalation to root in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of CIS 5.2.5 which is intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Patch (4.0.0 > 4.0.1) | |
| Kubernetes | 098fc59e-46c7-4d99-9b16-64990e543d75 | 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 recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Patch (4.0.1 > 4.0.2) | |
| Kubernetes | a27c700f-8a22-44ec-961c-41625264370b | Kubernetes clusters should not use specific security capabilities | Prevent specific security capabilities in Kubernetes clusters to prevent ungranted privileges on the Pod resource. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Patch (3.0.1 > 3.0.2) | |
| Kubernetes | f4a8fce0-2dd5-4c21-9a36-8f0ec809d663 | Kubernetes cluster pod FlexVolume volumes should only use allowed drivers | Pod FlexVolume volumes should only use allowed drivers in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Kubernetes | 13cd7ae3-5bc0-4ac4-a62d-4f7c120b9759 | [Preview]: Kubernetes clusters should gate deployment of vulnerable images | Protect your Kubernetes clusters and container workloads from potential threats by restricting deployment of container images with vulnerable software components. Use Azure Defender CI/CD scanning (https://aka.ms/AzureDefenderCICDscanning) and Azure defender for container registries (https://aka.ms/AzureDefenderForContainerRegistries) to identify and patch vulnerabilities prior to deployment. Evaluation prerequisite: Policy Addon and Azure Defender Profile. Only applicable for private preview customers. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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| Kubernetes | 1a5b4dca-0b6f-4cf5-907c-56316bc1bf3d | 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 AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more info, visit https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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change: Patch (6.0.0 > 6.0.1) | |
| Kubernetes | 6b2122c1-8120-4ff5-801b-17625a355590 | [Preview]: Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes clusters should have the Azure Policy extension installed | The Azure Policy extension for Azure Arc provides at-scale enforcements and safeguards on your Arc enabled Kubernetes clusters in a centralized, consistent manner. Learn more at https://aka.ms/akspolicydoc. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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add: 6b2122c1-8120-4ff5-801b-17625a355590 | |
| Security Center | b40e7bcd-a1e5-47fe-b9cf-2f534d0bfb7d | Configure Azure Defender for App Service to be enabled | Azure Defender for App Service leverages the scale of the cloud, and the visibility that Azure has as a cloud provider, to monitor for common web app attacks. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Security Admin |
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change: Patch (1.0.0 > 1.0.1) |
| Kubernetes | d2e7ea85-6b44-4317-a0be-1b951587f626 | Kubernetes clusters should not grant CAP_SYS_ADMIN security capabilities | To reduce the attack surface of your containers, restrict CAP_SYS_ADMIN Linux capabilities. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Patch (3.0.1 > 3.0.2) | |
| Kubernetes | e1e6c427-07d9-46ab-9689-bfa85431e636 | Kubernetes cluster pods and containers should only use allowed SELinux options | Pods and containers should only use allowed SELinux options in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Patch (4.0.1 > 4.0.2) | |
| Backup | 615b01c4-d565-4f6f-8c6e-d130268e3a1a | [Preview]: Configure backup for blobs on storage accounts with a given tag to an existing backup vault in the same region | Enforce backup for blobs on all storage accounts that contain a given tag to a central backup vault. Doing this can help you manage backup of blobs contained across multiple storage accounts at scale. For more details, refer to https://aka.ms/AB-BlobBackupAzPolicies | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) | Backup Contributor |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
add: 615b01c4-d565-4f6f-8c6e-d130268e3a1a |
| Kubernetes | 423dd1ba-798e-40e4-9c4d-b6902674b423 | Kubernetes clusters should disable automounting API credentials | Disable automounting API credentials to prevent a potentially compromised Pod resource to run API commands against Kubernetes clusters. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Patch (2.0.1 > 2.0.2) | |
| Security Center | 0fc39691-5a3f-4e3e-94ee-2e6447309ad9 | Running container images should have vulnerability findings resolved | Container image vulnerability assessment scans container images running on your Kubernetes clusters for security vulnerabilities and exposes detailed findings for each image. Resolving the vulnerabilities can greatly improve your containers' security posture and protect them from attacks. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
add: 0fc39691-5a3f-4e3e-94ee-2e6447309ad9 | |
| Compute | 702dd420-7fcc-42c5-afe8-4026edd20fe0 | OS and data disks should be encrypted with a customer-managed key | Use customer-managed keys to manage the encryption at rest of the contents of your managed disks. By default, the data is encrypted at rest with platform-managed keys, but customer-managed keys are commonly required to meet regulatory compliance standards. Customer-managed keys enable the data to be encrypted with an Azure Key Vault key created and owned by you. You have full control and responsibility for the key lifecycle, including rotation and management. Learn more at https://aka.ms/disks-cmk. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Major (2.0.0 > 3.0.0) | |
| Guest Configuration | e6955644-301c-44b5-a4c4-528577de6861 | Audit Linux machines that do not have the passwd file permissions set to 0644 | Requires that prerequisites are deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. Machines are non-compliant if Linux machines that do not have the passwd file permissions set to 0644 | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Minor (1.1.0 > 1.2.0) | |
| Kubernetes | d46c275d-1680-448d-b2ec-e495a3b6cc89 | Kubernetes cluster services should only use allowed external IPs | Use allowed external IPs to avoid the potential attack (CVE-2020-8554) in a Kubernetes cluster. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Patch (3.0.1 > 3.0.2) | |
| Guest Configuration | 3cf2ab00-13f1-4d0c-8971-2ac904541a7e | Add system-assigned managed identity to enable Guest Configuration assignments on virtual machines with no identities | This policy adds a system-assigned managed identity to virtual machines hosted in Azure that are supported by Guest Configuration but do not have any managed identities. A system-assigned managed identity is a prerequisite for all Guest Configuration assignments and must be added to machines before using any Guest Configuration policy definitions. For more information on Guest Configuration, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | Fixed: modify | Contributor |
2021-12-06 22:17:57
change: Minor (1.0.0 > 1.1.0) |
| Media Services | 9285c3de-d5fd-4225-86d4-027894b0c442 | Azure Media Services should use customer-managed keys to encrypt data at rest | Use customer-managed keys to manage the encryption at rest of your Media Services accounts. By default, customer data is encrypted with service-managed keys, but customer-managed keys are commonly required to meet regulatory compliance standards. Customer-managed keys enable the data to be encrypted with an Azure Key Vault key created and owned by you. You have full control and responsibility for the key lifecycle, including rotation and management. Learn more at https://aka.ms/mediaservicescmkdocs. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-11-12 16:23:07
add: 9285c3de-d5fd-4225-86d4-027894b0c442 | |
| Security Center | 7cb1b219-61c6-47e0-b80c-4472cadeeb5f | [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. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-11-12 16:23:07
change: Major, suffix remains equal (1.0.0-preview > 3.0.0-preview) |
| Security Center | 221aac80-54d8-484b-83d7-24f4feac2ce0 | [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. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-11-12 16:23:07
add: 221aac80-54d8-484b-83d7-24f4feac2ce0 | |
| Security Center | 8b5ad9ab-3d44-4a6e-9ac3-75b04ea5fd28 | [Preview]: Configure machines to automatically create the Azure Security Center pipeline for Azure Monitor Agent | Configure machines to automatically create the Azure Security Center pipeline for Azure Monitor Agent. Security Center 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 to store audit records. Target virtual machines must be in a supported location. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Contributor |
2021-11-12 16:23:07
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| Network | 055aa869-bc98-4af8-bafc-23f1ab6ffe2c | Azure Web Application Firewall should be enabled for Azure Front Door entry-points | 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. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-11-12 16:23:07
change: Patch (1.0.1 > 1.0.2) | |
| Security Center | 10caed8a-652c-4d1d-84e4-2805b7c07278 | [Preview]: Configure ChangeTracking Extension for Linux Arc machines | Configure Linux Arc machines to automatically install the ChangeTracking Extension 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 Monitor Agent. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-11-12 16:23:07
add: 10caed8a-652c-4d1d-84e4-2805b7c07278 |
| Security Center | 1288c8d7-4b05-4e3a-bc88-9053caefc021 | [Preview]: Configure ChangeTracking Extension for Linux virtual machine scale sets | Configure Linux virtual machine scale sets to automatically install the ChangeTracking Extension 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 Monitor Agent. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-11-12 16:23:07
add: 1288c8d7-4b05-4e3a-bc88-9053caefc021 |
| Security Center | e494853f-93c3-4e44-9210-d12f61a64b34 | [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. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-11-12 16:23:07
change: Major, suffix remains equal (1.0.0-preview > 2.0.0-preview) |
| Security Center | a7f5e735-d212-4c32-9229-d12bffbc7e00 | [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. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-11-12 16:23:07
add: a7f5e735-d212-4c32-9229-d12bffbc7e00 | |
| Security Center | 4bb303db-d051-4099-95d2-e3e1428a4d00 | [Preview]: ChangeTracking extension should be installed on your Windows virtual machine scale sets | Install ChangeTracking Extension on Windows virtual machine scale sets 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. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-11-12 16:23:07
add: 4bb303db-d051-4099-95d2-e3e1428a4d00 | |
| Security Center | 4bb303db-d051-4099-95d2-e3e1428a4cd5 | [Preview]: Configure ChangeTracking Extension for Windows Arc machines | Configure Windows Arc machines to automatically install the ChangeTracking Extension 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 Monitor Agent. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-11-12 16:23:07
add: 4bb303db-d051-4099-95d2-e3e1428a4cd5 |
| Security Center | 009259b0-12e8-42c9-94e7-7af86aa58d13 | [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. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Reader Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-11-12 16:23:07
change: Major, suffix remains equal (1.0.0-preview > 2.0.0-preview) |
| Security Center | c9b2ae08-09e2-4f0e-bb43-b60bf0135bdf | [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. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-11-12 16:23:07
change: Major, suffix remains equal (2.0.0-preview > 3.0.0-preview) |
| Security Center | 4bb303db-d051-4099-95d2-e3e1428a4d2c | [Preview]: Configure ChangeTracking Extension for Windows virtual machine scale sets | Configure Windows virtual machine scale sets to automatically install the ChangeTracking Extension 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 Monitor Agent. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-11-12 16:23:07
add: 4bb303db-d051-4099-95d2-e3e1428a4d2c |
| Kubernetes | a1840de2-8088-4ea8-b153-b4c723e9cb01 | [Preview]: Azure Kubernetes Service clusters should have Defender profile enabled | Microsoft Defender for Containers provides cloud-native Kubernetes security capabilities including environment hardening, workload protection, and run-time protection. When you enable the SecurityProfile.AzureDefender on your Azure Kubernetes Service cluster, an agent is deployed to your cluster to collect security event data. Learn more about Microsoft Defender for Containers in https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/security-center/defender-for-kubernetes-introduction | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
2021-11-12 16:23:07
change: Patch, suffix remains equal (1.0.0-preview > 1.0.1-preview) | |
| Security Center | 8893442c-e7cb-4637-bab8-299a5d4ed96a | [Preview]: ChangeTracking extension should be installed on your Linux virtual machine | Install ChangeTracking Extension on Linux 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. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-11-12 16:23:07
add: 8893442c-e7cb-4637-bab8-299a5d4ed96a | |
| Security Center | e71c1e29-9c76-4532-8c4b-cb0573b0014c | [Preview]: ChangeTracking extension should be installed on your Linux virtual machine scale sets | Install ChangeTracking Extension on Linux virtual machine scale sets 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. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-11-12 16:23:07
add: e71c1e29-9c76-4532-8c4b-cb0573b0014c | |
| Backup | 98d0b9f8-fd90-49c9-88e2-d3baf3b0dd86 | Configure backup on virtual machines without a given tag to a new recovery services vault with a default policy | Enforce backup for all virtual machines by deploying a recovery services vault in the same location and resource group as the virtual machine. Doing this is useful when different application teams in your organization are allocated separate resource groups and need to manage their own backups and restores. You can optionally exclude virtual machines containing a specified tag to control the scope of assignment. See https://aka.ms/AzureVMAppCentricBackupExcludeTag. | Default: deployIfNotExists Allowed: (deployIfNotExists, auditIfNotExists, disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor Backup Contributor |
2021-11-12 16:23:07
change: Major (3.0.0 > 4.0.0) |
| Kubernetes | 8dfab9c4-fe7b-49ad-85e4-1e9be085358f | [Preview]: Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes clusters should have Azure Defender's extension installed | Azure Defender's extension for Azure Arc provides threat protection for your Arc enabled Kubernetes clusters. The extension collects data from nodes in the cluster and sends it to the Azure Defender for Kubernetes backend in the cloud for further analysis. Learn more in https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/security-center/defender-for-kubernetes-azure-arc. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-11-12 16:23:07
change: Major, suffix remains equal (3.0.0-preview > 4.0.0-preview) | |
| Security Center | f655e522-adff-494d-95c2-52d4f6d56a42 | [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 only applies to trusted launch enabled virtual machine scale sets. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-11-12 16:23:07
change: Major, suffix remains equal (1.0.0-preview > 2.0.0-preview) | |
| Security Center | 57c2e3f0-98cf-4c3b-aa6b-e8f70726e74e | [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. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-11-12 16:23:07
change: Major, suffix remains equal (3.0.0-preview > 5.0.0-preview) |
| Backup | 013e242c-8828-4970-87b3-ab247555486d | Azure Backup should be enabled for Virtual Machines | Ensure protection of your Azure Virtual Machines by enabling Azure Backup. Azure Backup is a secure and cost effective data protection solution for Azure. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-11-12 16:23:07
change: Major (2.0.0 > 3.0.0) | |
| Security Center | 98ea2fc7-6fc6-4fd1-9d8d-6331154da071 | [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. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-11-12 16:23:07
change: Major, suffix remains equal (2.0.0-preview > 4.0.0-preview) |
| Security Center | 1c30f9cd-b84c-49cc-aa2c-9288447cc3b3 | [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. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
2021-11-12 16:23:07
change: Major, suffix remains equal (1.0.0-preview > 2.0.0-preview) | |
| Backup | 09ce66bc-1220-4153-8104-e3f51c936913 | Configure backup on virtual machines without a given tag to an existing recovery services vault in the same location | Enforce backup for all virtual machines by backing them up to an existing central recovery services vault in the same location and subscription as the virtual machine. Doing this is useful when there is a central team in your organization managing backups for all resources in a subscription. You can optionally exclude virtual machines containing a specified tag to control the scope of assignment. See https://aka.ms/AzureVMCentralBackupExcludeTag. | Default: deployIfNotExists Allowed: (deployIfNotExists, auditIfNotExists, disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor Backup Contributor |
2021-11-12 16:23:07
change: Major (3.0.0 > 4.0.0) |
| Security Center | 6074e9a3-c711-4856-976d-24d51f9e065b | [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. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-11-12 16:23:07
change: Major, suffix remains equal (3.0.0-preview > 6.0.0-preview) |
| Stream Analytics | fe8684d6-3c5b-45c0-a08b-fa92653c2e1c | Stream Analytics job should connect to trusted inputs and outputs | Ensure that Stream Analytics jobs do not have arbitrary Input or Output connections that are not defined in the allow-list. This checks that Stream Analytics jobs don't exfiltrate data by connecting to arbitrary sinks outside your organization. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Deny, Disabled, Audit) |
2021-11-12 16:23:07
add: fe8684d6-3c5b-45c0-a08b-fa92653c2e1c | |
| Kubernetes | 708b60a6-d253-4fe0-9114-4be4c00f012c | [Preview]: Configure Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes clusters to install Azure Defender's extension | Azure Defender's extension for Azure Arc provides threat protection for your Arc enabled Kubernetes clusters. The extension collects data from all nodes in the cluster and sends it to the Azure Defender for Kubernetes backend in the cloud for further analysis. Learn more in https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/security-center/defender-for-kubernetes-azure-arc. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Contributor Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-11-12 16:23:07
change: Major, suffix remains equal (2.0.0-preview > 3.0.0-preview) |
| Security Center | 5f8eb305-9c9f-4abe-9bb0-df220d9faba2 | [Preview]: Configure supported Linux virtual machines to automatically install the Azure Security agent | Configure supported Linux virtual machines to automatically install the Azure Security agent. Security Center collects events from the agent and uses them to provide security alerts and tailored hardening tasks (recommendations). Target virtual machines must be in a supported location. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-11-12 16:23:07
change: Major, suffix remains equal (5.0.0-preview > 6.0.0-preview) |
| Kubernetes | 13cd7ae3-5bc0-4ac4-a62d-4f7c120b9759 | [Preview]: Kubernetes clusters should gate deployment of vulnerable images | Protect your Kubernetes clusters and container workloads from potential threats by restricting deployment of container images with vulnerable software components. Use Azure Defender CI/CD scanning (https://aka.ms/AzureDefenderCICDscanning) and Azure defender for container registries (https://aka.ms/AzureDefenderForContainerRegistries) to identify and patch vulnerabilities prior to deployment. Evaluation prerequisite: Policy Addon and Azure Defender Profile. Only applicable for private preview customers. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-11-12 16:23:07
change: Patch, new suffix: preview (1.0.0 > 1.0.1-preview) | |
| Security Center | 1cb4d9c2-f88f-4069-bee0-dba239a57b09 | [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 only applies to trusted launch enabled virtual machines. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-11-12 16:23:07
change: Major, suffix remains equal (1.0.0-preview > 3.0.0-preview) | |
| Kubernetes | febd0533-8e55-448f-b837-bd0e06f16469 | 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. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-11-12 16:23:07
change: Patch (7.0.2 > 7.0.3) | |
| Security Center | a21f8c92-9e22-4f09-b759-50500d1d2dda | [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 only applies to trusted launch enabled Linux virtual machine scale sets. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Security Center | ec88097d-843f-4a92-8471-78016d337ba4 | [Preview]: Configure ChangeTracking Extension for Linux virtual machines | Configure Linux virtual machines to automatically install the ChangeTracking Extension 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 Monitor Agent. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-11-12 16:23:07
add: ec88097d-843f-4a92-8471-78016d337ba4 |
| Security Center | 496e010e-fa91-4c00-be4b-92b481f67b58 | [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. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Reader Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-11-12 16:23:07
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| Kubernetes | 64def556-fbad-4622-930e-72d1d5589bf5 | [Preview]: Configure Azure Kubernetes Service clusters to enable Defender profile | Microsoft Defender for Containers provides cloud-native Kubernetes security capabilities including environment hardening, workload protection, and run-time protection. When you enable the SecurityProfile.AzureDefender on your Azure Kubernetes Service cluster, an agent is deployed to your cluster to collect security event data. Learn more about Microsoft Defender for Containers: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/security-center/defender-for-kubernetes-introduction. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Contributor Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-11-12 16:23:07
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| Security Center | f08f556c-12ff-464d-a7de-40cb5b6cccec | [Preview]: Configure ChangeTracking Extension for Windows virtual machines | Configure Windows virtual machines to automatically install the ChangeTracking Extension 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 Monitor Agent. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-11-12 16:23:07
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| Backup | 345fa903-145c-4fe1-8bcd-93ec2adccde8 | Configure backup on virtual machines with a given tag to an existing recovery services vault in the same location | Enforce backup for all virtual machines by backing them up to an existing central recovery services vault in the same location and subscription as the virtual machine. Doing this is useful when there is a central team in your organization managing backups for all resources in a subscription. You can optionally include virtual machines containing a specified tag to control the scope of assignment. See https://aka.ms/AzureVMCentralBackupIncludeTag. | Default: deployIfNotExists Allowed: (deployIfNotExists, auditIfNotExists, disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor Backup Contributor |
2021-11-12 16:23:07
change: Major (3.0.0 > 4.0.0) |
| Data Factory | f78ccdb4-7bf4-4106-8647-270491d2978a | [Preview]: Azure Data Factory linked services should use system-assigned managed identity authentication when it is supported | Using system-assigned managed identity when communicating with data stores via linked services avoids the use of less secured credentials such as passwords or connection strings. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-11-12 16:23:07
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| Backup | 83644c87-93dd-49fe-bf9f-6aff8fd0834e | Configure backup on virtual machines with a given tag to a new recovery services vault with a default policy | Enforce backup for all virtual machines by deploying a recovery services vault in the same location and resource group as the virtual machine. Doing this is useful when different application teams in your organization are allocated separate resource groups and need to manage their own backups and restores. You can optionally include virtual machines containing a specified tag to control the scope of assignment. See https://aka.ms/AzureVMAppCentricBackupIncludeTag. | Default: deployIfNotExists Allowed: (deployIfNotExists, auditIfNotExists, disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor Backup Contributor |
2021-11-12 16:23:07
change: Major (3.0.0 > 4.0.0) |
| Security Center | d62cfe2b-3ab0-4d41-980d-76803b58ca65 | [Deprecated]: Log Analytics agent health issues should be resolved on your machines | Security Center uses the Log Analytics agent, formerly known as the Microsoft Monitoring Agent (MMA). To make sure your virtual machines are successfully monitored, you need to make sure the agent is installed on the virtual machines and properly collects security events to the configured workspace. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-11-12 16:23:07
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| Security Center | 95406fc3-1f69-47b0-8105-4c03b276ec5c | [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. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-11-12 16:23:07
change: Major, suffix remains equal (2.0.0-preview > 5.0.0-preview) |
| Security Center | 97566dd7-78ae-4997-8b36-1c7bfe0d8121 | [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 only applies to trusted launch enabled Windows virtual machines. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
2021-11-12 16:23:07
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| Security Center | fc47609f-4d9b-4aed-806b-446816cc63a3 | [Preview]: ChangeTracking extension should be installed on your Linux Arc machine | Install ChangeTracking Extension on Linux 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. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-11-12 16:23:07
add: fc47609f-4d9b-4aed-806b-446816cc63a3 | |
| Security Center | 672fe5a1-2fcd-42d7-b85d-902b6e28c6ff | [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 only applies to trusted launch enabled Linux virtual machines. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-11-12 16:23:07
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| Kubernetes | febd0533-8e55-448f-b837-bd0e06f16469 | 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. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-10-25 16:02:14
change: Patch (7.0.1 > 7.0.2) | |
| Key Vault | f772fb64-8e40-40ad-87bc-7706e1949427 | [Preview]: Certificates should not expire within the specified number of days | Manage certificates that will expire within a specified number of days to ensure your organization has sufficient time to rotate the certificate prior to expiration. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-10-25 16:02:14
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| SQL | b79fa14e-238a-4c2d-b376-442ce508fc84 | Deploy - Configure diagnostic settings for SQL Databases to Log Analytics workspace | Deploys the diagnostic settings for SQL Databases to stream resource logs to a Log Analytics workspace when any SQL Database which is missing this diagnostic settings is created or updated. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Monitoring Contributor Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-10-22 15:42:38
change: Major (1.0.1 > 2.0.0) |
| Security Center | 6074e9a3-c711-4856-976d-24d51f9e065b | [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. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-10-22 15:42:38
change: Major, suffix remains equal (2.0.0-preview > 3.0.0-preview) |
| Monitoring | c02729e5-e5e7-4458-97fa-2b5ad0661f28 | Windows virtual machines should have Azure Monitor Agent installed | Windows virtual machines should be monitored and secured through the deployed Azure Monitor Agent. The Azure Monitor Agent collects telemetry data from the guest OS. Windows virtual machines with supported OS and in supported regions are monitored for Azure Monitor Agent deployment. Learn more: https://aka.ms/AMAOverview. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-10-22 15:42:38
add: c02729e5-e5e7-4458-97fa-2b5ad0661f28 | |
| Security Center | 496e010e-fa91-4c00-be4b-92b481f67b58 | [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. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Reader Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-10-22 15:42:38
add: 496e010e-fa91-4c00-be4b-92b481f67b58 |
| Security Center | 57c2e3f0-98cf-4c3b-aa6b-e8f70726e74e | [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. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-10-22 15:42:38
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| Monitoring | 4efbd9d8-6bc6-45f6-9be2-7fe9dd5d89ff | Configure Windows virtual machine scale sets to run Azure Monitor Agent | Automate the deployment of Azure Monitor Agent extension on your Windows virtual machine scale sets for collecting telemetry data from the guest OS. This policy will install the extension if the OS and region are supported and system-assigned managed identity is enabled, and skip install otherwise. Learn more: https://aka.ms/AMAOverview. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-10-22 15:42:38
add: 4efbd9d8-6bc6-45f6-9be2-7fe9dd5d89ff |
| Security Center | 0961003e-5a0a-4549-abde-af6a37f2724d | Virtual machines should encrypt temp disks, caches, and data flows between Compute and Storage resources | By default, a virtual machine's OS and data disks are encrypted-at-rest using platform-managed keys. Temp disks, data caches and data flowing between compute and storage aren't encrypted. Disregard this recommendation if: 1. using encryption-at-host, or 2. server-side encryption on Managed Disks meets your security requirements. Learn more in: Server-side encryption of Azure Disk Storage: https://aka.ms/disksse, Different disk encryption offerings: https://aka.ms/diskencryptioncomparison | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-10-22 15:42:38
change: Patch (2.0.2 > 2.0.3) | |
| Monitoring | 94f686d6-9a24-4e19-91f1-de937dc171a4 | Configure Windows Arc machines to run Azure Monitor Agent | Automate the deployment of Azure Monitor Agent extension on your Windows Arc machines for collecting telemetry data from the guest OS. This policy will install the extension if the OS and region are supported and system-assigned managed identity is enabled, and skip install otherwise. Learn more: https://aka.ms/AMAOverview. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-10-22 15:42:38
add: 94f686d6-9a24-4e19-91f1-de937dc171a4 |
| Security Center | c9b2ae08-09e2-4f0e-bb43-b60bf0135bdf | [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. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-10-22 15:42:38
change: Major, suffix remains equal (1.0.0-preview > 2.0.0-preview) |
| Security Center | 98ea2fc7-6fc6-4fd1-9d8d-6331154da071 | [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. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-10-22 15:42:38
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| Monitoring | ec621e21-8b48-403d-a549-fc9023d4747f | Windows Arc machines should have Azure Monitor Agent installed | Windows Arc machines should be monitored and secured through the deployed Azure Monitor Agent. The Azure Monitor Agent collects telemetry data from the guest OS. Windows Arc machines in supported regions are monitored for Azure Monitor Agent deployment. Learn more: https://aka.ms/AMAOverview. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-10-22 15:42:38
add: ec621e21-8b48-403d-a549-fc9023d4747f | |
| Monitoring | 3672e6f7-a74d-4763-b138-fcf332042f8f | Windows virtual machine scale sets should have Azure Monitor Agent installed | Windows virtual machine scale sets should be monitored and secured through the deployed Azure Monitor Agent. The Azure Monitor Agent collects telemetry data from the guest OS. Virtual machine scale sets with supported OS and in supported regions are monitored for Azure Monitor Agent deployment. Learn more: https://aka.ms/AMAOverview. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-10-22 15:42:38
add: 3672e6f7-a74d-4763-b138-fcf332042f8f | |
| Security Center | 009259b0-12e8-42c9-94e7-7af86aa58d13 | [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. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Reader Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-10-22 15:42:38
add: 009259b0-12e8-42c9-94e7-7af86aa58d13 |
| Monitoring | 56a3e4f8-649b-4fac-887e-5564d11e8d3a | Configure Linux virtual machine scale sets to run Azure Monitor Agent | Automate the deployment of Azure Monitor Agent extension on your Linux virtual machine scale sets for collecting telemetry data from the guest OS. This policy will install the extension if the OS and region are supported and system-assigned managed identity is enabled, and skip install otherwise. Learn more: https://aka.ms/AMAOverview. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-10-19 19:10:32
add: 56a3e4f8-649b-4fac-887e-5564d11e8d3a |
| Monitoring | 1afdc4b6-581a-45fb-b630-f1e6051e3e7a | Linux virtual machines should have Azure Monitor Agent installed | Linux virtual machines should be monitored and secured through the deployed Azure Monitor Agent. The Azure Monitor Agent collects telemetry data from the guest OS. This policy will audit virtual machines with supported OS images in supported regions. Learn more: https://aka.ms/AMAOverview. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-10-19 19:10:32
add: 1afdc4b6-581a-45fb-b630-f1e6051e3e7a | |
| Monitoring | f17d891d-ff20-46f2-bad3-9e0a5403a4d3 | Linux Arc machines should have Azure Monitor Agent installed | Linux Arc machines should be monitored and secured through the deployed Azure Monitor Agent. The Azure Monitor Agent collects telemetry data from the guest OS. This policy will audit Arc machines in supported regions. Learn more: https://aka.ms/AMAOverview. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-10-19 19:10:32
add: f17d891d-ff20-46f2-bad3-9e0a5403a4d3 | |
| Monitoring | 17b3de92-f710-4cf4-aa55-0e7859f1ed7b | [Preview]: Configure system-assigned managed identity to enable Azure Monitor assignments on VMs | Configure system-assigned managed identity to virtual machines hosted in Azure that are supported by Azure Monitor and do not have a system-assigned managed identity. A system-assigned managed identity is a prerequisite for all Azure Monitor assignments and must be added to machines before using any Azure Monitor extension. Target virtual machines must be in a supported location. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor Managed Identity Contributor Managed Identity Operator |
2021-10-19 19:10:32
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| Monitoring | 32ade945-311e-4249-b8a4-a549924234d7 | Linux virtual machine scale sets should have Azure Monitor Agent installed | Linux virtual machine scale sets should be monitored and secured through the deployed Azure Monitor Agent. The Azure Monitor Agent collects telemetry data from the guest OS. This policy will audit virtual machine scale sets with supported OS images in supported regions. Learn more: https://aka.ms/AMAOverview. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-10-19 19:10:32
add: 32ade945-311e-4249-b8a4-a549924234d7 | |
| Search | 6300012e-e9a4-4649-b41f-a85f5c43be91 | Azure Cognitive Search services should have local authentication methods disabled | Disabling local authentication methods improves security by ensuring that Azure Cognitive Search services exclusively require Azure Active Directory identities for authentication. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/azure-cognitive-search/rbac. Note that while the disable local authentication parameter is still in preview, the deny effect for this policy may result in limited Azure Cognitive Search portal functionality since some features of the Portal use the GA API which does not support the parameter. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-10-19 19:10:32
add: 6300012e-e9a4-4649-b41f-a85f5c43be91 | |
| Monitoring | 2ea82cdd-f2e8-4500-af75-67a2e084ca74 | Configure Linux machines to be associated with a Data Collection Rule | Deploy a Data Collection Rule Association to link a Linux virtual machine, virtual machine scale set, or Arc machine to the specified Data Collection Rule. The list of locations and OS images are updated over time as support is increased. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Monitoring Contributor Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-10-19 19:10:32
change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) |
| Guest Configuration | fc9b3da7-8347-4380-8e70-0a0361d8dedd | 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. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-10-19 19:10:32
change: Version remains equal, old suffix: preview (1.2.0-preview > 1.2.0) | |
| Monitoring | a4034bc6-ae50-406d-bf76-50f4ee5a7811 | Configure Linux virtual machines to run Azure Monitor Agent | Automate the deployment of Azure Monitor Agent extension on your Linux virtual machines for collecting telemetry data from the guest OS. This policy will install the extension if the OS and region are supported and system-assigned managed identity is enabled, and skip install otherwise. Learn more: https://aka.ms/AMAOverview. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-10-19 19:10:32
change: Minor (1.0.0 > 1.1.0) |
| Monitoring | 845857af-0333-4c5d-bbbc-6076697da122 | Configure Linux Arc machines to run Azure Monitor Agent | Automate the deployment of Azure Monitor Agent extension on your Linux Arc machines for collecting telemetry data from the guest OS. This policy will install the extension if the region is supported. Learn more: https://aka.ms/AMAOverview. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-10-19 19:10:32
add: 845857af-0333-4c5d-bbbc-6076697da122 |
| Compute | 2c89a2e5-7285-40fe-afe0-ae8654b92fb2 | [Deprecated]: Unattached disks should be encrypted | This policy audits any unattached disk without encryption enabled. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
2021-10-19 19:10:32
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| Guest Configuration | 72650e9f-97bc-4b2a-ab5f-9781a9fcecbc | Windows machines should meet requirements of 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. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-10-19 19:10:32
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| Monitoring | ca817e41-e85a-4783-bc7f-dc532d36235e | Configure Windows virtual machines to run Azure Monitor Agent | Automate the deployment of Azure Monitor Agent extension on your Windows virtual machines for collecting telemetry data from the guest OS. This policy will install the extension if the OS and region are supported and system-assigned managed identity is enabled, and skip install otherwise. Learn more: https://aka.ms/AMAOverview. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-10-19 19:10:32
change: Patch (2.0.0 > 2.0.1) |
| Search | 4eb216f2-9dba-4979-86e6-5d7e63ce3b75 | Configure Azure Cognitive Search services to disable local authentication | Disable local authentication methods so that your Azure Cognitive Search services exclusively require Azure Active Directory identities for authentication. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/azure-cognitive-search/rbac. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | Search Service Contributor |
2021-10-19 19:10:32
add: 4eb216f2-9dba-4979-86e6-5d7e63ce3b75 |
| Monitoring | eab1f514-22e3-42e3-9a1f-e1dc9199355c | Configure Windows machines to be associated with a Data Collection Rule | Deploy Association to link Windows virtual machines to specified Data Collection Rule. The list of OS images is updated over time as support is increased. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Monitoring Contributor |
2021-10-19 19:10:32
change: Patch (1.0.0 > 1.0.1) |
| Monitoring | bef3f64c-5290-43b7-85b0-9b254eef4c47 | Deploy Diagnostic Settings for Key Vault to Log Analytics workspace | Deploys the diagnostic settings for Key Vault to stream to a regional Log Analytics workspace when any Key Vault which is missing this diagnostic settings is created or updated. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Monitoring Contributor Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-10-08 15:47:40
change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) |
| Compute | ac34a73f-9fa5-4067-9247-a3ecae514468 | Configure disaster recovery on virtual machines by enabling replication via Azure Site Recovery | Virtual machines without disaster recovery configurations are vulnerable to outages and other disruptions. If the virtual machine does not already have disaster recovery configured, this would initiate the same by enabling replication using preset configurations to facilitate business continuity. You can optionally include/exclude virtual machines containing a specified tag to control the scope of assignment. To learn more about disaster recovery, visit https://aka.ms/asr-doc. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Owner |
2021-10-08 15:47:40
change: Major (1.2.0 > 2.0.0) |
| Azure Arc | d6eeba80-df61-4de5-8772-bc1b7852ba6b | Configure Azure Arc Private Link Scopes with private endpoints | Private endpoints connect your virtual networks to Azure services without a public IP address at the source or destination. By mapping private endpoints to Azure Arc Private Link Scopes, you can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more about private links at: https://aka.ms/arc/privatelink. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor Azure Connected Machine Resource Administrator |
2021-10-08 15:47:40
add: d6eeba80-df61-4de5-8772-bc1b7852ba6b |
| Azure Arc | 898f2439-3333-4713-af25-f1d78bc50556 | Azure Arc Private Link Scopes should disable public network access | Disabling public network access improves security by ensuring that Azure Arc resources cannot connect via the public internet. Creating private endpoints can limit exposure of Azure Arc resources. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/arc/privatelink. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-10-08 15:47:40
add: 898f2439-3333-4713-af25-f1d78bc50556 | |
| HDInsight | 43d6e3bd-fc6a-4b44-8b4d-2151d8736a11 | Configure Azure HDInsight clusters to use private DNS zones | Use private DNS zones to override the DNS resolution for a private endpoint. A private DNS zone links to your virtual network to resolve to Azure HDInsight clusters. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/hdi.pl. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor |
2021-10-08 15:47:40
add: 43d6e3bd-fc6a-4b44-8b4d-2151d8736a11 |
| Azure Arc | 55c4db33-97b0-437b-8469-c4f4498f5df9 | Configure Azure Arc Private Link Scopes to use private DNS zones | Use private DNS zones to override the DNS resolution for a private endpoint. A private DNS zone links to your virtual network to resolve to Azure Arc Private Link Scopes. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/arc/privatelink. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor |
2021-10-08 15:47:40
add: 55c4db33-97b0-437b-8469-c4f4498f5df9 |
| Update Management Center | 59efceea-0c96-497e-a4a1-4eb2290dac15 | [Preview]: Configure periodic checking for missing system updates on azure virtual machines | Configure auto-assessment (every 24 hours) for OS updates on native Azure virtual machines. You can control the scope of assignment according to machine subscription, resource group, location or tag. Learn more about this for Windows: https://aka.ms/computevm-windowspatchassessmentmode, for Linux: https://aka.ms/computevm-linuxpatchassessmentmode. | Fixed: modify | Virtual Machine Contributor |
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add: 59efceea-0c96-497e-a4a1-4eb2290dac15 |
| Machine Learning | 7804b5c7-01dc-4723-969b-ae300cc07ff1 | Audit Azure Machine Learning Compute Cluster and Instance is behind virtual network | Azure Virtual Network deployment provides enhanced security and isolation for your Azure Machine Learning Compute Clusters and Instances, as well as subnets, access control policies, and other features to further restrict access.When am Azure Machine Learning Compute instance is configured with a virtual network, it is not publicly addressable and can only be accessed from virtual machines and applications within the virtual network. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
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add: 7804b5c7-01dc-4723-969b-ae300cc07ff1 | |
| Security Center | 44433aa3-7ec2-4002-93ea-65c65ff0310a | Configure Azure Defender for open-source relational databases to be enabled | Azure Defender for open-source relational databases detects anomalous activities indicating unusual and potentially harmful attempts to access or exploit databases. Learn more about the capabilities of Azure Defender for open-source relational databases at https://aka.ms/AzDforOpenSourceDBsDocu. Important: Enabling this plan will result in charges for protecting your open-source relational databases. Learn about the pricing on Security Center's pricing page: https://aka.ms/pricing-security-center | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Security Admin |
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add: 44433aa3-7ec2-4002-93ea-65c65ff0310a |
| Update Management Center | bd876905-5b84-4f73-ab2d-2e7a7c4568d9 | [Preview]: 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. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: bd876905-5b84-4f73-ab2d-2e7a7c4568d9 | |
| Key Vault | ed7c8c13-51e7-49d1-8a43-8490431a0da2 | Deploy Diagnostic Settings for Key Vault to Event Hub | Deploys the diagnostic settings for Key Vault to stream to a regional Event Hub when any Key Vault which is missing this diagnostic settings is created or updated. | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
2021-10-08 15:47:40
change: Major (2.0.0 > 3.0.0) |
| Azure Arc | de0bc8ea-76e2-4fe2-a288-a07556d0e9c4 | Configure Azure Arc Private Link Scopes to disable public network access | Disable public network access for your Azure Arc Private Link Scope so that associated Azure Arc resources cannot connect to Azure Arc services over the public internet. This can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/arc/privatelink. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | Azure Connected Machine Resource Administrator |
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add: de0bc8ea-76e2-4fe2-a288-a07556d0e9c4 |
| Azure Arc | 7eab1da3-2bf0-4ff0-8303-1a4277c380e8 | Azure Arc Private Link Scopes should be configured with a private endpoint | Azure Private Link lets you connect your virtual networks 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 Azure Arc Private Link Scopes, data leakage risks are reduced. Learn more about private links at: https://aka.ms/arc/privatelink. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
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add: 7eab1da3-2bf0-4ff0-8303-1a4277c380e8 | |
| Update Management Center | bfea026e-043f-4ff4-9d1b-bf301ca7ff46 | [Preview]: Configure periodic checking for missing system updates on azure Arc-enabled servers | Configure auto-assessment (every 24 hours) for OS updates on Azure Arc-enabled servers. You can control the scope of assignment according to machine subscription, resource group, location or tag. Learn more about this for Windows: https://aka.ms/computevm-windowspatchassessmentmode, for Linux: https://aka.ms/computevm-linuxpatchassessmentmode. | Fixed: modify | Azure Connected Machine Resource Administrator |
2021-10-08 15:47:40
add: bfea026e-043f-4ff4-9d1b-bf301ca7ff46 |
| Azure Arc | a3461c8c-6c9d-4e42-a644-40ba8a1abf49 | Configure Azure Arc-enabled servers to use an Azure Arc Private Link Scope | Azure Private Link lets you connect your virtual networks 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 Azure Arc-enabled servers to an Azure Arc Private Link Scope that is configured with a private endpoint, data leakage risks are reduced. Learn more about private links at: https://aka.ms/arc/privatelink. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | Azure Connected Machine Resource Administrator |
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add: a3461c8c-6c9d-4e42-a644-40ba8a1abf49 |
| HDInsight | c8cc2f85-e019-4065-9fa3-5e6a2b2dde56 | Azure HDInsight should use private link | Azure Private Link lets you connect your virtual networks 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 Azure HDInsight clusters, you can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more about private links at: https://aka.ms/hdi.pl. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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add: c8cc2f85-e019-4065-9fa3-5e6a2b2dde56 | |
| Azure Arc | efa3f296-ff2b-4f38-bc0d-5ef12c965b68 | Azure Arc-enabled servers should be configured with an Azure Arc Private Link Scope | Azure Private Link lets you connect your virtual networks 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 Azure Arc-enabled servers to an Azure Arc Private Link Scope that is configured with a private endpoint, data leakage risks are reduced. Learn more about private links at: https://aka.ms/arc/privatelink. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-10-08 15:47:40
add: efa3f296-ff2b-4f38-bc0d-5ef12c965b68 | |
| Guest Configuration | 331e8ea8-378a-410f-a2e5-ae22f38bb0da | Deploy the Linux Guest Configuration extension to enable Guest Configuration assignments on Linux VMs | This policy deploys the Linux Guest Configuration extension to Linux virtual machines hosted in Azure that are supported by Guest Configuration. The Linux Guest Configuration extension is a prerequisite for all Linux Guest Configuration assignments and must be deployed to machines before using any Linux Guest Configuration policy definition. For more information on Guest Configuration, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
2021-10-08 15:47:40
change: Patch (1.1.0 > 1.1.1) |
| HDInsight | 2676090a-4baf-46ac-9085-4ac02cc50e3e | Configure Azure HDInsight clusters with private endpoints | Private endpoints connect your virtual networks to Azure services without a public IP address at the source or destination. By mapping private endpoints to Azure HDInsight clusters, you can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more about private links at: https://aka.ms/hdi.pl. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Contributor |
2021-10-08 15:47:40
add: 2676090a-4baf-46ac-9085-4ac02cc50e3e |
| Guest Configuration | 385f5831-96d4-41db-9a3c-cd3af78aaae6 | Deploy the Windows Guest Configuration extension to enable Guest Configuration assignments on Windows VMs | This policy deploys the Windows Guest Configuration extension to Windows virtual machines hosted in Azure that are supported by Guest Configuration. The Windows Guest Configuration extension is a prerequisite for all Windows Guest Configuration assignments and must be deployed to machines before using any Windows Guest Configuration policy definition. For more information on Guest Configuration, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
2021-10-04 15:27:15
change: Minor (1.0.1 > 1.1.0) |
| Guest Configuration | 73db37c4-f180-4b0f-ab2c-8ee96467686b | Linux machines should only have local accounts that are allowed | Requires that prerequisites are deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. Managing user accounts using Azure Active Directory is a best practice for management of identities. Reducing local machine accounts helps prevent the proliferation of identities managed outside a central system. Machines are non-compliant if local user accounts exist that are enabled and not listed in the policy parameter. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Minor (1.0.0 > 1.1.0) | |
| Guest Configuration | 331e8ea8-378a-410f-a2e5-ae22f38bb0da | Deploy the Linux Guest Configuration extension to enable Guest Configuration assignments on Linux VMs | This policy deploys the Linux Guest Configuration extension to Linux virtual machines hosted in Azure that are supported by Guest Configuration. The Linux Guest Configuration extension is a prerequisite for all Linux Guest Configuration assignments and must be deployed to machines before using any Linux Guest Configuration policy definition. For more information on Guest Configuration, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
2021-10-04 15:27:15
change: Minor (1.0.1 > 1.1.0) |
| Event Hub | 5d4e3c65-4873-47be-94f3-6f8b953a3598 | Azure Event Hub namespaces should have local authentication methods disabled | Disabling local authentication methods improves security by ensuring that Azure Event Hub namespaces exclusively require Azure Active Directory identities for authentication. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/disablelocalauth-eh. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: 5d4e3c65-4873-47be-94f3-6f8b953a3598 | |
| Guest Configuration | fc9b3da7-8347-4380-8e70-0a0361d8dedd | 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. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Kubernetes | 13cd7ae3-5bc0-4ac4-a62d-4f7c120b9759 | [Preview]: Kubernetes clusters should gate deployment of vulnerable images | Protect your Kubernetes clusters and container workloads from potential threats by restricting deployment of container images with vulnerable software components. Use Azure Defender CI/CD scanning (https://aka.ms/AzureDefenderCICDscanning) and Azure defender for container registries (https://aka.ms/AzureDefenderForContainerRegistries) to identify and patch vulnerabilities prior to deployment. Evaluation prerequisite: Policy Addon and Azure Defender Profile. Only applicable for private preview customers. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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| Guest Configuration | e6955644-301c-44b5-a4c4-528577de6861 | Audit Linux machines that do not have the passwd file permissions set to 0644 | Requires that prerequisites are deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. Machines are non-compliant if Linux machines that do not have the passwd file permissions set to 0644 | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Minor (1.0.0 > 1.1.0) | |
| Kubernetes | d2e7ea85-6b44-4317-a0be-1b951587f626 | Kubernetes clusters should not grant CAP_SYS_ADMIN security capabilities | To reduce the attack surface of your containers, restrict CAP_SYS_ADMIN Linux capabilities. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Security Center | af99038c-02fd-4a2f-ac24-386b62bf32de | [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. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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add: af99038c-02fd-4a2f-ac24-386b62bf32de | |
| Machine Learning | a10ee784-7409-4941-b091-663697637c0f | Configure Azure Machine Learning workspaces to disable public network access | Disable public network access for Azure Machine Learning workspaces so that your workspaces aren't accessible over the public internet. This will help protect the workspaces against data leakage risks. You can limit exposure of the your machine learning workspaces by creating private endpoints instead. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/privateendpoints. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | AzureML Data Scientist |
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add: a10ee784-7409-4941-b091-663697637c0f |
| Service Bus | cfb11c26-f069-4c14-8e36-56c394dae5af | Azure Service Bus namespaces should have local authentication methods disabled | Disabling local authentication methods improves security by ensuring that Azure Service Bus namespaces exclusively require Azure Active Directory identities for authentication. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/disablelocalauth-sb. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-10-04 15:27:15
add: cfb11c26-f069-4c14-8e36-56c394dae5af | |
| Machine Learning | 438c38d2-3772-465a-a9cc-7a6666a275ce | Azure Machine Learning workspaces should disable public network access | Disabling public network access improves security by ensuring that the machine learning workspaces aren't exposed on the public internet. You can limit exposure of your workspaces by creating private endpoints instead. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/privateendpoints. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: 438c38d2-3772-465a-a9cc-7a6666a275ce | |
| Kubernetes | 9f061a12-e40d-4183-a00e-171812443373 | 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. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Guest Configuration | ea53dbee-c6c9-4f0e-9f9e-de0039b78023 | Audit Linux machines that allow remote connections from accounts without passwords | Requires that prerequisites are deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. Machines are non-compliant if Linux machines that allow remote connections from accounts without passwords | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Minor (1.0.0 > 1.1.0) | |
| Guest Configuration | 630c64f9-8b6b-4c64-b511-6544ceff6fd6 | Authentication to Linux machines should require SSH keys | Although SSH itself provides an encrypted connection, using passwords with SSH still leaves the VM vulnerable to brute-force attacks. The most secure option for authenticating to an Azure Linux virtual machine over SSH is with a public-private key pair, also known as SSH keys. Learn more: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-machines/linux/create-ssh-keys-detailed. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Minor (2.0.1 > 2.1.0) | |
| Event Hub | 57f35901-8389-40bb-ac49-3ba4f86d889d | Configure Azure Event Hub namespaces to disable local authentication | Disable local authentication methods so that your Azure Event Hub namespaces exclusively require Azure Active Directory identities for authentication. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/disablelocalauth-eh. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | Azure Event Hubs Data Owner |
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add: 57f35901-8389-40bb-ac49-3ba4f86d889d |
| Guest Configuration | f6ec09a3-78bf-4f8f-99dc-6c77182d0f99 | Audit Linux machines that have accounts without passwords | Requires that prerequisites are deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. Machines are non-compliant if Linux machines that have accounts without passwords | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Minor (1.0.0 > 1.1.0) | |
| Service Bus | 910711a6-8aa2-4f15-ae62-1e5b2ed3ef9e | Configure Azure Service Bus namespaces to disable local authentication | Disable local authentication methods so that your Azure ServiceBus namespaces exclusively require Azure Active Directory identities for authentication. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/disablelocalauth-sb. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | Azure Service Bus Data Owner |
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add: 910711a6-8aa2-4f15-ae62-1e5b2ed3ef9e |
| Kubernetes | 423dd1ba-798e-40e4-9c4d-b6902674b423 | Kubernetes clusters should disable automounting API credentials | Disable automounting API credentials to prevent a potentially compromised Pod resource to run API commands against Kubernetes clusters. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Kubernetes | a27c700f-8a22-44ec-961c-41625264370b | Kubernetes clusters should not use specific security capabilities | Prevent specific security capabilities in Kubernetes clusters to prevent ungranted privileges on the Pod resource. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-10-04 15:27:15
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| Guest Configuration | 0447bc18-e2f7-4c0d-aa20-bff034275be1 | Audit Linux machines that have the specified applications installed | Requires that prerequisites are deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. Machines are non-compliant if the Chef InSpec resource indicates that one or more of the packages provided by the parameter are installed. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-10-04 15:27:15
change: Minor (3.0.0 > 3.1.0) | |
| Storage | 92a89a79-6c52-4a7e-a03f-61306fc49312 | Storage accounts should prevent cross tenant object replication | Audit restriction of object replication for your storage account. By default, users can configure object replication with a source storage account in one Azure AD tenant and a destination account in a different tenant. It is a security concern because customer's data can be replicated to a storage account that is owned by the customer. By setting allowCrossTenantReplication to false, objects replication can be configured only if both source and destination accounts are in the same Azure AD tenant. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-09-27 15:52:17
add: 92a89a79-6c52-4a7e-a03f-61306fc49312 | |
| Kubernetes | febd0533-8e55-448f-b837-bd0e06f16469 | 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. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-09-27 15:52:17
change: Patch (7.0.0 > 7.0.1) | |
| Synapse | ac7891a4-ac7a-4ba0-9ae9-c923e5a225ee | Configure Synapse workspaces to have auditing enabled | To ensure the operations performed against your SQL assets are captured, Synapse workspaces should have auditing enabled. This is sometimes required for compliance with regulatory standards. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | SQL Security Manager Storage Account Contributor |
2021-09-27 15:52:17
change: Major (1.1.0 > 2.0.0) |
| Monitoring | d69b1763-b96d-40b8-a2d9-ca31e9fd0d3e | [Preview]: Log Analytics extension should be installed on your Windows Azure Arc machines | This policy audits Windows Azure Arc machines if the Log Analytics extension is not installed. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-09-27 15:52:17
change: Patch, suffix remains equal (1.0.0-preview > 1.0.1-preview) | |
| Security Center | a2ea54a3-9707-45e3-8230-bbda8309d17e | [Preview]: Configure Association to link virtual machines to default Azure Security Center Data Collection Rule | Configure machines to automatically create an association with the default data collection rule for Azure Security Center. Deleting this association will break the detection of security vulnerabilities for this virtual machine. Target virtual machines must be in a supported location. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Monitoring Contributor |
2021-09-27 15:52:17
add: a2ea54a3-9707-45e3-8230-bbda8309d17e |
| Monitoring | 3c1b3629-c8f8-4bf6-862c-037cb9094038 | Deploy - Configure Log Analytics extension to be enabled on Windows virtual machine scale sets | Deploy Log Analytics extension for Windows virtual machine scale sets if the virtual machine image is in the list defined and the extension is not installed. If your scale set upgradePolicy is set to Manual, you need to apply the extension to all the virtual machine in the set by updating them. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Log Analytics Contributor Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-09-27 15:52:17
change: Patch (2.0.0 > 2.0.1) |
| Monitoring | 053d3325-282c-4e5c-b944-24faffd30d77 | Deploy Log Analytics extension for Linux VMs | Deploy Log Analytics extension for Linux VMs if the VM Image (OS) is in the list defined and the extension is not installed. | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-09-27 15:52:17
change: Patch (2.0.0 > 2.0.1) |
| Monitoring | efbde977-ba53-4479-b8e9-10b957924fbf | The Log Analytics extension should be installed on Virtual Machine Scale Sets | This policy audits any Windows/Linux Virtual Machine Scale Sets if the Log Analytics extension is not installed. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-09-27 15:52:17
change: Patch (1.0.0 > 1.0.1) | |
| Compute | 3d8640fc-63f6-4734-8dcb-cfd3d8c78f38 | [Deprecated]: Deploy default Log Analytics Extension for Ubuntu VMs | This policy deploys the Log Analytics Extension on Ubuntu VMs, and connects to the selected Log Analytics workspace | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-09-27 15:52:17
change: Patch, suffix remains equal (1.0.0-deprecated > 1.0.1-deprecated) |
| Network | e372f825-a257-4fb8-9175-797a8a8627d6 | [Deprecated]: RDP access from the Internet should be blocked | This policy is deprecated. This policy audits any network security rule that allows RDP access from Internet | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
2021-09-27 15:52:17
change: Version remains equal, new suffix: deprecated (2.0.0 > 2.0.0-deprecated) | |
| Kubernetes | 13cd7ae3-5bc0-4ac4-a62d-4f7c120b9759 | [Preview]: Kubernetes clusters should gate deployment of vulnerable images | Protect your Kubernetes clusters and container workloads from potential threats by restricting deployment of container images with vulnerable software components. Use Azure Defender CI/CD scanning (https://aka.ms/AzureDefenderCICDscanning) and Azure defender for container registries (https://aka.ms/AzureDefenderForContainerRegistries) to identify and patch vulnerabilities prior to deployment. Evaluation prerequisite: Policy Addon and Azure Defender Profile. Only applicable for private preview customers. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-09-27 15:52:17
add: 13cd7ae3-5bc0-4ac4-a62d-4f7c120b9759 | |
| Monitoring | 0868462e-646c-4fe3-9ced-a733534b6a2c | Deploy - Configure Log Analytics extension to be enabled on Windows virtual machines | Deploy Log Analytics extension for Windows virtual machines if the virtual machine image is in the list defined and the extension is not installed. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-09-27 15:52:17
change: Patch (2.0.0 > 2.0.1) |
| Guest Configuration | 1e7fed80-8321-4605-b42c-65fc300f23a3 | Linux machines should have Log Analytics agent installed on Azure Arc | Machines are non-compliant if Log Analytics agent is not installed on Azure Arc enabled Linux server. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-09-27 15:52:17
add: 1e7fed80-8321-4605-b42c-65fc300f23a3 | |
| Security Center | 8b5ad9ab-3d44-4a6e-9ac3-75b04ea5fd28 | [Preview]: Configure machines to automatically create the Azure Security Center pipeline for Azure Monitor Agent | Configure machines to automatically create the Azure Security Center pipeline for Azure Monitor Agent. Security Center 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 to store audit records. Target virtual machines must be in a supported location. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Contributor |
2021-09-27 15:52:17
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| Security Center | bdc59948-5574-49b3-bb91-76b7c986428d | Azure Defender for DNS should be enabled | Azure Defender for DNS provides an additional layer of protection for your cloud resources by continuously monitoring all DNS queries from your Azure resources. Azure Defender alerts you about suspicious activity at the DNS layer. Learn more about the capabilities of Azure Defender for DNS at https://aka.ms/defender-for-dns . Enabling this Azure Defender plan results in charges. Learn about the pricing details per region on Security Center's pricing page: https://aka.ms/pricing-security-center . | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-09-27 15:52:17
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| Monitoring | 9d2b61b4-1d14-4a63-be30-d4498e7ad2cf | Configure Log Analytics extension on Azure Arc enabled Linux servers | Enable VM insights on servers and machines connected to Azure through Arc enabled servers by installing the Log Analytics virtual machine extension. VM insights uses the Log Analytics agent to collect the guest OS performance data, and provides insights into their performance. See more - https://aka.ms/vminsightsdocs. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-09-27 15:52:17
change: Patch (2.0.0 > 2.0.1) |
| Network | 2c89a2e5-7285-40fe-afe0-ae8654b92fab | [Deprecated]: SSH access from the Internet should be blocked | This policy is deprecated. This policy audits any network security rule that allows SSH access from Internet | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
2021-09-27 15:52:17
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| SQL | fd2d1a6e-6d95-4df2-ad00-504bf0273406 | Configure Arc-enabled machines running SQL Server to have SQL Server extension installed. | To ensure that SQL Server - Azure Arc resources are created by default when SQL Server instance is found on Azure Arc enabled windows server, the latter should have SQL Server extension installed and the server's managed identity should be configured with Azure Connected SQL Server Onboarding role | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Log Analytics Contributor User Access Administrator |
2021-09-27 15:52:17
change: Major (1.0.1 > 2.0.0) |
| Monitoring | 5ee9e9ed-0b42-41b7-8c9c-3cfb2fbe2069 | Deploy Log Analytics extension for Linux virtual machine scale sets | Deploy Log Analytics extension for Linux virtual machine scale sets if the VM Image (OS) is in the list defined and the extension is not installed. Note: if your scale set upgradePolicy is set to Manual, you need to apply the extension to the all VMs in the set by calling upgrade on them. In CLI this would be az vmss update-instances. | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Log Analytics Contributor Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-09-27 15:52:17
change: Patch (2.0.0 > 2.0.1) |
| Key Vault | 84d327c3-164a-4685-b453-900478614456 | [Preview]: Configure Azure Key Vault Managed HSM to disable public network access | Disable public network access for your Azure Key Vault Managed HSM so that it's not accessible over the public internet. This can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/key-vault/managed-hsm/private-link#allow-trusted-services-to-access-managed-hsm. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | Managed HSM contributor |
2021-09-27 15:52:17
change: Major, suffix remains equal (1.0.0-preview > 2.0.0-preview) |
| Monitoring | 32133ab0-ee4b-4b44-98d6-042180979d50 | [Preview]: Log Analytics Extension should be enabled for listed virtual machine images | Reports virtual machines as non-compliant if the virtual machine image is not in the list defined and the extension is not installed. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-09-27 15:52:17
change: Patch, suffix remains equal (2.0.0-preview > 2.0.1-preview) | |
| Network | 98a2e215-5382-489e-bd29-32e7190a39ba | Configure diagnostic settings for Azure Network Security Groups to Log Analytics workspace | Deploy diagnostic settings to Azure Network Security Groups to stream resource logs to a Log Analytics workspace. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Monitoring Contributor Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-09-27 15:52:17
add: 98a2e215-5382-489e-bd29-32e7190a39ba |
| Monitoring | 69af7d4a-7b18-4044-93a9-2651498ef203 | Configure Log Analytics extension on Azure Arc enabled Windows servers | Enable VM insights on servers and machines connected to Azure through Arc enabled servers by installing the Log Analytics virtual machine extension. VM insights uses the Log Analytics agent to collect the guest OS performance data, and provides insights into their performance. See more - https://aka.ms/vminsightsdocs. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-09-27 15:52:17
change: Patch (2.0.0 > 2.0.1) |
| Guest Configuration | 4078e558-bda6-41fb-9b3c-361e8875200d | Windows machines should have Log Analytics agent installed on Azure Arc | Machines are non-compliant if Log Analytics agent is not installed on Azure Arc enabled windows server. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-09-27 15:52:17
add: 4078e558-bda6-41fb-9b3c-361e8875200d | |
| Monitoring | 5c3bc7b8-a64c-4e08-a9cd-7ff0f31e1138 | Log Analytics extension should be enabled in virtual machine scale sets for listed virtual machine images | Reports virtual machine scale sets as non-compliant if the virtual machine image is not in the list defined and the extension is not installed. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-09-27 15:52:17
change: Patch (2.0.0 > 2.0.1) | |
| Monitoring | 842c54e8-c2f9-4d79-ae8d-38d8b8019373 | [Preview]: Log Analytics extension should be installed on your Linux Azure Arc machines | This policy audits Linux Azure Arc machines if the Log Analytics extension is not installed. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-09-27 15:52:17
change: Patch, suffix remains equal (1.0.0-preview > 1.0.1-preview) | |
| Monitoring | a70ca396-0a34-413a-88e1-b956c1e683be | Virtual machines should have the Log Analytics extension installed | This policy audits any Windows/Linux virtual machines if the Log Analytics extension is not installed. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-09-27 15:52:17
change: Patch (1.0.0 > 1.0.1) | |
| Event Grid | 2dd0e8b9-4289-4bb0-b813-1883298e9924 | Configure Azure Event Grid partner namespaces to disable local authentication | Disable local authentication methods so that your Azure Event Grid partner namespaces exclusively require Azure Active Directory identities for authentication. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/aeg-disablelocalauth. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | EventGrid Contributor |
2021-09-21 16:12:09
add: 2dd0e8b9-4289-4bb0-b813-1883298e9924 |
| Kubernetes | 245fc9df-fa96-4414-9a0b-3738c2f7341c | Resource logs in Azure Kubernetes Service should be enabled | Azure Kubernetes Service's resource logs can help recreate activity trails when investigating security incidents. Enable it to make sure the logs will exist when needed | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-09-21 16:12:09
add: 245fc9df-fa96-4414-9a0b-3738c2f7341c | |
| Automation | 30d1d58e-8f96-47a5-8564-499a3f3cca81 | Configure Azure Automation account to disable local authentication | Disable local authentication methods so that your Azure Automation accounts exclusively require Azure Active Directory identities for authentication. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | Contributor |
2021-09-21 16:12:09
add: 30d1d58e-8f96-47a5-8564-499a3f3cca81 |
| Automation | 48c5f1cb-14ad-4797-8e3b-f78ab3f8d700 | Azure Automation account should have local authentication method disabled | Disabling local authentication methods improves security by ensuring that Azure Automation accounts exclusively require Azure Active Directory identities for authentication. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-09-21 16:12:09
add: 48c5f1cb-14ad-4797-8e3b-f78ab3f8d700 | |
| Event Grid | 8bfadddb-ee1c-4639-8911-a38cb8e0b3bd | Azure Event Grid domains should have local authentication methods disabled | Disabling local authentication methods improves security by ensuring that Azure Event Grid domains exclusively require Azure Active Directory identities for authentication. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/aeg-disablelocalauth. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-09-21 16:12:09
add: 8bfadddb-ee1c-4639-8911-a38cb8e0b3bd | |
| Event Grid | 1c8144d9-746a-4501-b08c-093c8d29ad04 | Configure Azure Event Grid topics to disable local authentication | Disable local authentication methods so that your Azure Event Grid topics exclusively require Azure Active Directory identities for authentication. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/aeg-disablelocalauth. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | EventGrid Contributor |
2021-09-21 16:12:09
add: 1c8144d9-746a-4501-b08c-093c8d29ad04 |
| Kubernetes | f06ddb64-5fa3-4b77-b166-acb36f7f6042 | 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 recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-09-21 16:12:09
change: Patch (4.0.1 > 4.0.2) | |
| Kubernetes | 1ddac26b-ed48-4c30-8cc5-3a68c79b8001 | Kubernetes clusters should not allow endpoint edit permissions of ClusterRole/system:aggregate-to-edit | ClusterRole/system:aggregate-to-edit should not allow endpoint edit permissions due to CVE-2021-25740, Endpoint & EndpointSlice permissions allow cross-Namespace forwarding, https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/103675. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
2021-09-21 16:12:09
add: 1ddac26b-ed48-4c30-8cc5-3a68c79b8001 | |
| Event Grid | ae9fb87f-8a17-4428-94a4-8135d431055c | Azure Event Grid topics should have local authentication methods disabled | Disabling local authentication methods improves security by ensuring that Azure Event Grid topics exclusively require Azure Active Directory identities for authentication. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/aeg-disablelocalauth. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-09-21 16:12:09
add: ae9fb87f-8a17-4428-94a4-8135d431055c | |
| Kubernetes | 1c6e92c9-99f0-4e55-9cf2-0c234dc48f99 | Kubernetes clusters should not allow container privilege escalation | Do not allow containers to run with privilege escalation to root in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of CIS 5.2.5 which is intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-09-21 16:12:09
change: Major (3.0.1 > 4.0.0) | |
| Event Grid | 8632b003-3545-4b29-85e6-b2b96773df1e | Azure Event Grid partner namespaces should have local authentication methods disabled | Disabling local authentication methods improves security by ensuring that Azure Event Grid partner namespaces exclusively require Azure Active Directory identities for authentication. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/aeg-disablelocalauth. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-09-21 16:12:09
add: 8632b003-3545-4b29-85e6-b2b96773df1e | |
| Event Grid | 8ac2748f-3bf1-4c02-a3b6-92ae68cf75b1 | Configure Azure Event Grid domains to disable local authentication | Disable local authentication methods so that your Azure Event Grid domains exclusively require Azure Active Directory identities for authentication. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/aeg-disablelocalauth. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | EventGrid Contributor |
2021-09-21 16:12:09
add: 8ac2748f-3bf1-4c02-a3b6-92ae68cf75b1 |
| Security Center | 0367cfc4-90b3-46ba-a8a6-ddd5d3514878 | [Preview]: Azure Security agent should be installed on your Windows Arc machines | Install the Azure Security agent on your Windows Arc machines in order to monitor your machines for security configurations and vulnerabilities. Results of the assessments can seen and managed in Azure Security Center. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-09-13 16:35:32
add: 0367cfc4-90b3-46ba-a8a6-ddd5d3514878 | |
| Security Center | e8794316-d918-4565-b57d-6b38a06381a0 | [Preview]: Azure Security agent should be installed on your Linux virtual machines | Install the Azure Security agent on your Linux virtual machines in order to monitor your machines for security configurations and vulnerabilities. Results of the assessments can seen and managed in Azure Security Center. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-09-13 16:35:32
add: e8794316-d918-4565-b57d-6b38a06381a0 | |
| Security Center | 6654c8c4-e6f8-43f8-8869-54327af7ce32 | [Preview]: Configure supported Linux virtual machine scale sets to automatically install the Azure Security agent | Configure supported Linux virtual machine scale sets to automatically install the Azure Security agent. Security Center collects events from the agent and uses them to provide security alerts and tailored hardening tasks (recommendations). Target virtual machines must be in a supported location. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-09-13 16:35:32
add: 6654c8c4-e6f8-43f8-8869-54327af7ce32 |
| Security Center | 1537496a-b1e8-482b-a06a-1cc2415cdc7b | [Preview]: Configure supported Windows machines to automatically install the Azure Security agent | Configure supported Windows machines to automatically install the Azure Security agent. Security Center collects events from the agent and uses them to provide security alerts and tailored hardening tasks (recommendations). Target virtual machines must be in a supported location. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-09-13 16:35:32
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| Key Vault | 84d327c3-164a-4685-b453-900478614456 | [Preview]: Configure Azure Key Vault Managed HSM to disable public network access | Disable public network access for your Azure Key Vault Managed HSM so that it's not accessible over the public internet. This can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/key-vault/managed-hsm/private-link#allow-trusted-services-to-access-managed-hsm. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | Managed HSM contributor |
2021-09-13 16:35:32
add: 84d327c3-164a-4685-b453-900478614456 |
| Security Center | d01f3018-de9f-4d75-8dae-d12c1875da9f | [Preview]: Configure supported Windows Arc machines to automatically install the Azure Security agent | Configure supported Windows Arc machines to automatically install the Azure Security agent. Security Center collects events from the agent and uses them to provide security alerts and tailored hardening tasks (recommendations). Target Windows Arc machines must be in a supported location. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-09-13 16:35:32
add: d01f3018-de9f-4d75-8dae-d12c1875da9f |
| Security Center | 13ce0167-8ca6-4048-8e6b-f996402e3c1b | [Preview]: Configure machines to receive a vulnerability assessment provider | Azure Defender includes vulnerability scanning for your machines at no extra cost. You don't need a Qualys license or even a Qualys account - everything's handled seamlessly inside Security Center. When you enable this policy, Azure Defender automatically deploys the Qualys vulnerability assessment provider to all supported machines that don't already have it installed. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Security Admin |
2021-09-13 16:35:32
change: Minor, suffix remains equal (2.1.0-preview > 2.2.0-preview) |
| Security Center | bb2c6c6d-14bc-4443-bef3-c6be0adc6076 | [Preview]: Azure Security agent should be installed on your Windows virtual machines | Install the Azure Security agent on your Windows virtual machines in order to monitor your machines for security configurations and vulnerabilities. Results of the assessments can seen and managed in Azure Security Center. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-09-13 16:35:32
add: bb2c6c6d-14bc-4443-bef3-c6be0adc6076 | |
| Security Center | 8b5ad9ab-3d44-4a6e-9ac3-75b04ea5fd28 | [Preview]: Configure machines to automatically create the Azure Security Center pipeline for Azure Monitor Agent | Configure machines to automatically create the Azure Security Center pipeline for Azure Monitor Agent. Security Center 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 to store audit records. Target virtual machines must be in a supported location. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Contributor |
2021-09-13 16:35:32
change: Minor, suffix remains equal (1.0.0-preview > 1.1.0-preview) |
| Security Center | 2f47ec78-4301-4655-b78e-b29377030cdc | [Preview]: Configure supported Linux Arc machines to automatically install the Azure Security agent | Configure supported Linux Arc machines to automatically install the Azure Security agent. Security Center collects events from the agent and uses them to provide security alerts and tailored hardening tasks (recommendations). Target Linux Arc machines must be in a supported location. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-09-13 16:35:32
add: 2f47ec78-4301-4655-b78e-b29377030cdc |
| Security Center | 62b52eae-c795-44e3-94e8-1b3d264766fb | [Preview]: Azure Security agent should be installed on your Linux virtual machine scale sets | Install the Azure Security agent on your Linux virtual machine scale sets in order to monitor your machines for security configurations and vulnerabilities. Results of the assessments can seen and managed in Azure Security Center. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-09-13 16:35:32
add: 62b52eae-c795-44e3-94e8-1b3d264766fb | |
| Security Center | 0961003e-5a0a-4549-abde-af6a37f2724d | Virtual machines should encrypt temp disks, caches, and data flows between Compute and Storage resources | By default, a virtual machine's OS and data disks are encrypted-at-rest using platform-managed keys. Temp disks, data caches and data flowing between compute and storage aren't encrypted. Disregard this recommendation if: 1. using encryption-at-host, or 2. server-side encryption on Managed Disks meets your security requirements. Learn more in: Server-side encryption of Azure Disk Storage: https://aka.ms/disksse, Different disk encryption offerings: https://aka.ms/diskencryptioncomparison | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-09-13 16:35:32
change: Patch (2.0.1 > 2.0.2) | |
| Security Center | 808a7dc4-49f2-4e7b-af75-d14e561c244a | [Preview]: Configure supported Windows virtual machine scale sets to automatically install the Azure Security agent | Configure supported Windows virtual machine scale sets to automatically install the Azure Security agent. Security Center collects events from the agent and uses them to provide security alerts and tailored hardening tasks (recommendations). Target Windows virtual machine scale sets must be in a supported location. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-09-13 16:35:32
add: 808a7dc4-49f2-4e7b-af75-d14e561c244a |
| Monitoring | 04d53d87-841c-4f23-8a5b-21564380b55e | Deploy Diagnostic Settings for Service Bus to Log Analytics workspace | Deploys the diagnostic settings for Service Bus to stream to a regional Log Analytics workspace when any Service Bus which is missing this diagnostic settings is created or updated. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Monitoring Contributor Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-09-13 16:35:32
change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) |
| Security Center | 5f8eb305-9c9f-4abe-9bb0-df220d9faba2 | [Preview]: Configure supported Linux virtual machines to automatically install the Azure Security agent | Configure supported Linux virtual machines to automatically install the Azure Security agent. Security Center collects events from the agent and uses them to provide security alerts and tailored hardening tasks (recommendations). Target virtual machines must be in a supported location. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-09-13 16:35:32
change: Major, suffix remains equal (4.0.0-preview > 5.0.0-preview) |
| Security Center | 1f300abb-f5a0-41c3-a163-91bd3ed35de7 | [Preview]: Azure Security agent should be installed on your Linux Arc machines | Install the Azure Security agent on your Linux Arc machines in order to monitor your machines for security configurations and vulnerabilities. Results of the assessments can seen and managed in Azure Security Center. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-09-13 16:35:32
add: 1f300abb-f5a0-41c3-a163-91bd3ed35de7 | |
| Security Center | e16f967a-aa57-4f5e-89cd-8d1434d0a29a | [Preview]: Azure Security agent should be installed on your Windows virtual machine scale sets | Install the Azure Security agent on your Windows virtual machine scale sets in order to monitor your machines for security configurations and vulnerabilities. Results of the assessments can seen and managed in Azure Security Center. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-09-13 16:35:32
add: e16f967a-aa57-4f5e-89cd-8d1434d0a29a | |
| Kubernetes | f85eb0dd-92ee-40e9-8a76-db25a507d6d3 | Kubernetes cluster containers should only use allowed ProcMountType | Pod containers can only use allowed ProcMountTypes in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-09-08 15:39:57
change: Patch (5.0.0 > 5.0.1) | |
| SQL | fd2d1a6e-6d95-4df2-ad00-504bf0273406 | Configure Arc-enabled machines running SQL Server to have SQL Server extension installed. | To ensure that SQL Server - Azure Arc resources are created by default when SQL Server instance is found on Azure Arc enabled windows server, the latter should have SQL Server extension installed and the server's managed identity should be configured with Azure Connected SQL Server Onboarding role | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Log Analytics Contributor User Access Administrator |
2021-09-08 15:39:57
change: Patch (1.0.0 > 1.0.1) |
| Kubernetes | c26596ff-4d70-4e6a-9a30-c2506bd2f80c | 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 AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-09-08 15:39:57
change: Patch (4.0.0 > 4.0.1) | |
| Kubernetes | df49d893-a74c-421d-bc95-c663042e5b80 | 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 AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-09-08 15:39:57
change: Patch (4.0.0 > 4.0.1) | |
| Bot Service | 6a4e6f44-f2af-4082-9702-033c9e88b9f8 | Configure BotService resources to use private DNS zones | Use private DNS zones to override the DNS resolution for a private endpoint. A private DNS zone links to your virtual network to resolve to BotService related resources. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/privatednszone. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor |
2021-09-08 15:39:57
add: 6a4e6f44-f2af-4082-9702-033c9e88b9f8 |
| Healthcare APIs | fe1c9040-c46a-4e81-9aea-c7850fbb3aa6 | CORS should not allow every domain to access your FHIR Service | Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) should not allow all domains to access your FHIR Service. To protect your FHIR Service, remove access for all domains and explicitly define the domains allowed to connect. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, disabled) |
2021-09-08 15:39:57
add: fe1c9040-c46a-4e81-9aea-c7850fbb3aa6 | |
| Internet of Things | 672d56b3-23a7-4a3c-a233-b77ed7777518 | Azure IoT Hub should have local authentication methods disabled for Service Apis | Disabling local authentication methods improves security by ensuring that Azure IoT Hub exclusively require Azure Active Directory identities for Service Api authentication. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/iothubdisablelocalauth. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-09-08 15:39:57
add: 672d56b3-23a7-4a3c-a233-b77ed7777518 | |
| Bot Service | ad5621d6-a877-4407-aa93-a950b428315e | BotService resources 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 BotService resource, data leakage risks are reduced. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
2021-09-08 15:39:57
add: ad5621d6-a877-4407-aa93-a950b428315e | |
| App Service | aede300b-d67f-480a-ae26-4b3dfb1a1fdc | App Service should have local authentication methods disabled for SCM site deployments | Disabling local authentication methods improves security by ensuring that App Service exclusively require Azure Active Directory identities for authentication. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/app-service-disable-basic-auth. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-09-08 15:39:57
add: aede300b-d67f-480a-ae26-4b3dfb1a1fdc | |
| App Service | ec71c0bc-6a45-4b1f-9587-80dc83e6898c | App Service slots should have local authentication methods disabled for FTP deployments | Disabling local authentication methods improves security by ensuring that App Service slots exclusively require Azure Active Directory identities for authentication. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/app-service-disable-basic-auth. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-09-08 15:39:57
add: ec71c0bc-6a45-4b1f-9587-80dc83e6898c | |
| Kubernetes | 423dd1ba-798e-40e4-9c4d-b6902674b423 | Kubernetes clusters should disable automounting API credentials | Disable automounting API credentials to prevent a potentially compromised Pod resource to run API commands against Kubernetes clusters. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-09-08 15:39:57
change: Patch, suffix remains equal (2.0.0-preview > 2.0.1-preview) | |
| App Service | 2c034a29-2a5f-4857-b120-f800fe5549ae | Configure App Service slots to disable local authentication for SCM sites. | Disable local authentication methods for SCM sites so that your App Services slots exclusively require Azure Active Directory identities for authentication. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/app-service-disable-basic-auth. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Website Contributor |
2021-09-08 15:39:57
add: 2c034a29-2a5f-4857-b120-f800fe5549ae |
| App Service | 572e342c-c920-4ef5-be2e-1ed3c6a51dc5 | Configure App Service to disable local authentication on FTP deployments. | Disable local authentication methods for FTP deployments so that your App Services exclusively require Azure Active Directory identities for authentication. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/app-service-disable-basic-auth. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Website Contributor |
2021-09-08 15:39:57
add: 572e342c-c920-4ef5-be2e-1ed3c6a51dc5 |
| Kubernetes | d2e7ea85-6b44-4317-a0be-1b951587f626 | Kubernetes clusters should not grant CAP_SYS_ADMIN security capabilities | To reduce the attack surface of your containers, restrict CAP_SYS_ADMIN Linux capabilities. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| App Service | 847ef871-e2fe-4e6e-907e-4adbf71de5cf | App Service slots should have local authentication methods disabled for SCM site deployments | Disabling local authentication methods improves security by ensuring that App Service slots exclusively require Azure Active Directory identities for authentication. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/app-service-disable-basic-auth. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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add: 847ef871-e2fe-4e6e-907e-4adbf71de5cf | |
| Kubernetes | 82985f06-dc18-4a48-bc1c-b9f4f0098cfe | Kubernetes cluster pods should only use approved host network and port range | Restrict pod access to the host network and the allowable host port range in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of CIS 5.2.4 which is intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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change: Patch (4.0.0 > 4.0.1) | |
| Kubernetes | 975ce327-682c-4f2e-aa46-b9598289b86c | Kubernetes cluster containers should only use allowed seccomp profiles | Pod containers can only use allowed seccomp profiles in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Kubernetes | 9f061a12-e40d-4183-a00e-171812443373 | 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. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Kubernetes | a27c700f-8a22-44ec-961c-41625264370b | Kubernetes clusters should not use specific security capabilities | Prevent specific security capabilities in Kubernetes clusters to prevent ungranted privileges on the Pod resource. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| App Service | 5e97b776-f380-4722-a9a3-e7f0be029e79 | Configure App Service to disable local authentication for SCM sites. | Disable local authentication methods for SCM sites so that your App Services exclusively require Azure Active Directory identities for authentication. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/app-service-disable-basic-auth. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Website Contributor |
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add: 5e97b776-f380-4722-a9a3-e7f0be029e79 |
| Kubernetes | e1e6c427-07d9-46ab-9689-bfa85431e636 | Kubernetes cluster pods and containers should only use allowed SELinux options | Pods and containers should only use allowed SELinux options in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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change: Patch (4.0.0 > 4.0.1) | |
| App Service | 871b205b-57cf-4e1e-a234-492616998bf7 | App Service should have local authentication methods disabled for FTP deployments | Disabling local authentication methods improves security by ensuring that App Service exclusively require Azure Active Directory identities for authentication. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/app-service-disable-basic-auth. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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add: 871b205b-57cf-4e1e-a234-492616998bf7 | |
| App Service | f493116f-3b7f-4ab3-bf80-0c2af35e46c2 | Configure App Service slots to disable local authentication for FTP deployments. | Disable local authentication methods for FTP deployments so that your App Services slots exclusively require Azure Active Directory identities for authentication. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/app-service-disable-basic-auth. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Website Contributor |
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add: f493116f-3b7f-4ab3-bf80-0c2af35e46c2 |
| Kubernetes | f06ddb64-5fa3-4b77-b166-acb36f7f6042 | 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 recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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change: Patch (4.0.0 > 4.0.1) | |
| Internet of Things | 9f8ba900-a70f-486e-9ffc-faf907305376 | Configure Azure IoT Hub to disable local authentication | Disable local authentication methods so that your Azure IoT Hub exclusively require Azure Active Directory identities for authentication. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/iothubdisablelocalauth. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | Contributor |
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add: 9f8ba900-a70f-486e-9ffc-faf907305376 |
| Bot Service | 29261f8e-efdb-4255-95b8-8215414515d6 | Configure BotService resources with private endpoints | Private endpoints connect your virtual network to Azure services without a public IP address at the source or destination. By mapping private endpoints to your BotService resource, you can reduce data leakage risks. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor |
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| Kubernetes | 511f5417-5d12-434d-ab2e-816901e72a5e | Kubernetes cluster containers should only use allowed AppArmor profiles | Containers should only use allowed AppArmor profiles in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Kubernetes | 47a1ee2f-2a2a-4576-bf2a-e0e36709c2b8 | Kubernetes cluster containers should not share host process ID or host IPC namespace | Block pod containers from sharing the host process ID namespace and host IPC namespace in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of CIS 5.2.2 and CIS 5.2.3 which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Kubernetes | 098fc59e-46c7-4d99-9b16-64990e543d75 | 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 recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| SignalR | 702133e5-5ec5-4f90-9638-c78e22f13b39 | Configure Azure SignalR Service to disable local authentication | Disable local authentication methods so that your Azure SignalR Service exclusively requires Azure Active Directory identities for authentication. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | SignalR/Web PubSub Contributor |
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| Kubernetes | f4a8fce0-2dd5-4c21-9a36-8f0ec809d663 | Kubernetes cluster pod FlexVolume volumes should only use allowed drivers | Pod FlexVolume volumes should only use allowed drivers in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Kubernetes | d46c275d-1680-448d-b2ec-e495a3b6cc89 | Kubernetes cluster services should only use allowed external IPs | Use allowed external IPs to avoid the potential attack (CVE-2020-8554) in a Kubernetes cluster. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Kubernetes | 16697877-1118-4fb1-9b65-9898ec2509ec | Kubernetes cluster pods should only use allowed volume types | Pods can only use allowed volume types in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Kubernetes | 56d0a13f-712f-466b-8416-56fb354fb823 | Kubernetes cluster containers should not use forbidden sysctl interfaces | Containers should not use forbidden sysctl interfaces in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Kubernetes | 1c6e92c9-99f0-4e55-9cf2-0c234dc48f99 | Kubernetes clusters should not allow container privilege escalation | Do not allow containers to run with privilege escalation to root in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of CIS 5.2.5 which is intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Kubernetes | 8dfab9c4-fe7b-49ad-85e4-1e9be085358f | [Preview]: Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes clusters should have Azure Defender's extension installed | Azure Defender's extension for Azure Arc provides threat protection for your Arc enabled Kubernetes clusters. The extension collects data from nodes in the cluster and sends it to the Azure Defender for Kubernetes backend in the cloud for further analysis. Learn more in https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/security-center/defender-for-kubernetes-azure-arc. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Key Vault | 98728c90-32c7-4049-8429-847dc0f4fe37 | Key Vault secrets should have an expiration date | Secrets should have a defined expiration date and not be permanent. Secrets that are valid forever provide a potential attacker with more time to compromise them. It is a recommended security practice to set expiration dates on secrets. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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| Key Vault | 8e826246-c976-48f6-b03e-619bb92b3d82 | Certificates should be issued by the specified integrated certificate authority | Manage your organizational compliance requirements by specifying the Azure integrated certificate authorities that can issue certificates in your key vault such as Digicert or GlobalSign. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Key Vault | c26e4b24-cf98-4c67-b48b-5a25c4c69eb9 | Keys should not be active for longer than the specified number of days | Specify the number of days that a key should be active. Keys that are used for an extended period of time increase the probability that an attacker could compromise the key. As a good security practice, make sure that your keys have not been active longer than two years. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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| Key Vault | 587c79fe-dd04-4a5e-9d0b-f89598c7261b | Keys should be backed by a hardware security module (HSM) | An HSM is a hardware security module that stores keys. An HSM provides a physical layer of protection for cryptographic keys. The cryptographic key cannot leave a physical HSM which provides a greater level of security than a software key. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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| Kubernetes | df49d893-a74c-421d-bc95-c663042e5b80 | 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 AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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change: Major (3.0.0 > 4.0.0) | |
| Kubernetes | f06ddb64-5fa3-4b77-b166-acb36f7f6042 | 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 recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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change: Major (3.0.0 > 4.0.0) | |
| SQL | f4c68484-132f-41f9-9b6d-3e4b1cb55036 | Configure SQL servers to have auditing enabled | To ensure the operations performed against your SQL assets are captured, SQL servers should have auditing enabled. This is sometimes required for compliance with regulatory standards. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | SQL Security Manager Storage Account Contributor |
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change: Major (2.0.0 > 3.0.0) |
| Kubernetes | 975ce327-682c-4f2e-aa46-b9598289b86c | Kubernetes cluster containers should only use allowed seccomp profiles | Pod containers can only use allowed seccomp profiles in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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change: Major (3.0.0 > 4.0.0) | |
| Key Vault | 75c4f823-d65c-4f29-a733-01d0077fdbcb | Keys should be the specified cryptographic type RSA or EC | Some applications require the use of keys backed by a specific cryptographic type. Enforce a particular cryptographic key type, RSA or EC, in your environment. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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| Key Vault | e8d99835-8a06-45ae-a8e0-87a91941ccfe | Secrets should not be active for longer than the specified number of days | If your secrets were created with an activation date set in the future, you must ensure that your secrets have not been active for longer than the specified duration. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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| Kubernetes | e345eecc-fa47-480f-9e88-67dcc122b164 | Kubernetes cluster containers CPU and memory resource limits should not exceed the specified limits | Enforce container CPU and memory resource limits to prevent resource exhaustion attacks in a Kubernetes cluster. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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change: Major (6.0.0 > 7.0.0) | |
| Key Vault | 49a22571-d204-4c91-a7b6-09b1a586fbc9 | Keys should have the specified maximum validity period | Manage your organizational compliance requirements by specifying the maximum amount of time in days that a key can be valid within your key vault. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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| API Management | df73bd95-24da-4a4f-96b9-4e8b94b402bd | API Management services should disable public network access | To improve the security of API Management services, ensure that endpoints aren't exposed to the public internet. Some public endpoints are exposed by API Management services to support user scenarios, e.g. direct access to Management API, managing configuration using Git, self-hosted gateways configuration. If any of those features are not used, corresponding endpoints should be disabled. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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add: df73bd95-24da-4a4f-96b9-4e8b94b402bd | |
| Key Vault | 5ff38825-c5d8-47c5-b70e-069a21955146 | Keys should have more than the specified number of days before expiration | If a key is too close to expiration, an organizational delay to rotate the key may result in an outage. Keys should be rotated at a specified number of days prior to expiration to provide sufficient time to react to a failure. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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| Monitoring | 0fc55270-f8bf-4feb-b7b8-5e7e7eacc6a6 | Azure Monitor Private Link Scope should use private link | Azure Private Link lets you connect your virtual networks 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 Azure Monitor Private Links Scope, you can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more about private links at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-monitor/logs/private-link-security. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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add: 0fc55270-f8bf-4feb-b7b8-5e7e7eacc6a6 | |
| Kubernetes | d2e7ea85-6b44-4317-a0be-1b951587f626 | Kubernetes clusters should not grant CAP_SYS_ADMIN security capabilities | To reduce the attack surface of your containers, restrict CAP_SYS_ADMIN Linux capabilities. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-08-30 14:27:30
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| Kubernetes | a27c700f-8a22-44ec-961c-41625264370b | Kubernetes clusters should not use specific security capabilities | Prevent specific security capabilities in Kubernetes clusters to prevent ungranted privileges on the Pod resource. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Kubernetes | a8eff44f-8c92-45c3-a3fb-9880802d67a7 | Deploy Azure Policy Add-on to Azure Kubernetes Service clusters | Use Azure Policy Add-on to manage and report on the compliance state of your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters. For more information, see https://aka.ms/akspolicydoc. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Azure Kubernetes Service Contributor Role |
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change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) |
| Kubernetes | 82985f06-dc18-4a48-bc1c-b9f4f0098cfe | Kubernetes cluster pods should only use approved host network and port range | Restrict pod access to the host network and the allowable host port range in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of CIS 5.2.4 which is intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-08-30 14:27:30
change: Major (3.0.0 > 4.0.0) | |
| Security Center | 8e42c1f2-a2ab-49bc-994a-12bcd0dc4ac2 | Endpoint protection health issues should be resolved on your machines | Resolve endpoint protection health issues on your virtual machines to protect them from latest threats and vulnerabilities. Azure Security Center supported endpoint protection solutions are documented here - https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/security-center/security-center-services?tabs=features-windows#supported-endpoint-protection-solutions. Endpoint protection assessment is documented here - https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/security-center/security-center-endpoint-protection. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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add: 8e42c1f2-a2ab-49bc-994a-12bcd0dc4ac2 | |
| Storage | 4fa4b6c0-31ca-4c0d-b10d-24b96f62a751 | [Preview]: 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. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Key Vault | ff25f3c8-b739-4538-9d07-3d6d25cfb255 | Keys using elliptic curve cryptography should have the specified curve names | Keys backed by elliptic curve cryptography can have different curve names. Some applications are only compatible with specific elliptic curve keys. Enforce the types of elliptic curve keys that are allowed to be created in your environment. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-08-30 14:27:30
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| Key Vault | 342e8053-e12e-4c44-be01-c3c2f318400f | Secrets should have the specified maximum validity period | Manage your organizational compliance requirements by specifying the maximum amount of time in days that a secret can be valid within your key vault. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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| Key Vault | cee51871-e572-4576-855c-047c820360f0 | Certificates using RSA cryptography should have the specified minimum key size | Manage your organizational compliance requirements by specifying a minimum key size for RSA certificates stored in your key vault. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Key Vault | 75262d3e-ba4a-4f43-85f8-9f72c090e5e3 | Secrets should have content type set | A content type tag helps identify whether a secret is a password, connection string, etc. Different secrets have different rotation requirements. Content type tag should be set on secrets. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-08-30 14:27:30
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| Kubernetes | c26596ff-4d70-4e6a-9a30-c2506bd2f80c | 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 AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-08-30 14:27:30
change: Major (3.0.0 > 4.0.0) | |
| Key Vault | bd78111f-4953-4367-9fd5-7e08808b54bf | Certificates using elliptic curve cryptography should have allowed curve names | Manage the allowed elliptic curve names for ECC Certificates stored in key vault. More information can be found at https://aka.ms/akvpolicy. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-08-30 14:27:30
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| Key Vault | 152b15f7-8e1f-4c1f-ab71-8c010ba5dbc0 | Key Vault keys should have an expiration date | Cryptographic keys should have a defined expiration date and not be permanent. Keys that are valid forever provide a potential attacker with more time to compromise the key. It is a recommended security practice to set expiration dates on cryptographic keys. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-08-30 14:27:30
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| Kubernetes | 511f5417-5d12-434d-ab2e-816901e72a5e | Kubernetes cluster containers should only use allowed AppArmor profiles | Containers should only use allowed AppArmor profiles in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-08-30 14:27:30
change: Major (3.0.0 > 4.0.0) | |
| Key Vault | 82067dbb-e53b-4e06-b631-546d197452d9 | Keys using RSA cryptography should have a specified minimum key size | Set the minimum allowed key size for use with your key vaults. Use of RSA keys with small key sizes is not a secure practice and doesn't meet many industry certification requirements. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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| Key Vault | 12ef42cb-9903-4e39-9c26-422d29570417 | Certificates should have the specified lifetime action triggers | Manage your organizational compliance requirements by specifying whether a certificate lifetime action is triggered at a specific percentage of its lifetime or at a certain number of days prior to its expiration. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Key Vault | f772fb64-8e40-40ad-87bc-7706e1949427 | [Preview]: Certificates should not expire within the specified number of days | Manage certificates that will expire within a specified number of days to ensure your organization has sufficient time to rotate the certificate prior to expiration. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Kubernetes | 098fc59e-46c7-4d99-9b16-64990e543d75 | 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 recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Key Vault | 1151cede-290b-4ba0-8b38-0ad145ac888f | Certificates should use allowed key types | Manage your organizational compliance requirements by restricting the key types allowed for certificates. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Key Vault | a22f4a40-01d3-4c7d-8071-da157eeff341 | Certificates should be issued by the specified non-integrated certificate authority | Manage your organizational compliance requirements by specifying the custom or internal certificate authorities that can issue certificates in your key vault. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Kubernetes | 708b60a6-d253-4fe0-9114-4be4c00f012c | [Preview]: Configure Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes clusters to install Azure Defender's extension | Azure Defender's extension for Azure Arc provides threat protection for your Arc enabled Kubernetes clusters. The extension collects data from all nodes in the cluster and sends it to the Azure Defender for Kubernetes backend in the cloud for further analysis. Learn more in https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/security-center/defender-for-kubernetes-azure-arc. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Contributor Log Analytics Contributor |
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| Security Center | 1f7c564c-0a90-4d44-b7e1-9d456cffaee8 | Endpoint protection should be installed on your machines | To protect your machines from threats and vulnerabilities, install a supported endpoint protection solution. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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add: 1f7c564c-0a90-4d44-b7e1-9d456cffaee8 | |
| Kubernetes | f85eb0dd-92ee-40e9-8a76-db25a507d6d3 | Kubernetes cluster containers should only use allowed ProcMountType | Pod containers can only use allowed ProcMountTypes in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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change: Major (4.0.0 > 5.0.0) | |
| API Management | 7ca8c8ac-3a6e-493d-99ba-c5fa35347ff2 | Configure API Management services to disable public network access | To improve the security of API Management services, disable public endpoints. Some public endpoints are exposed by API Management services to support user scenarios, e.g. direct access to Management API, managing configuration using Git, self-hosted gateways configuration. If any of those features are not used, corresponding endpoints should be disabled. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | API Management Service Contributor |
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| Key Vault | b0eb591a-5e70-4534-a8bf-04b9c489584a | Secrets should have more than the specified number of days before expiration | If a secret is too close to expiration, an organizational delay to rotate the secret may result in an outage. Secrets should be rotated at a specified number of days prior to expiration to provide sufficient time to react to a failure. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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| Cognitive Services | 037eea7a-bd0a-46c5-9a66-03aea78705d3 | Cognitive Services accounts should restrict network access | Network access to Cognitive Services accounts should be restricted. Configure network rules so only applications from allowed networks can access the Cognitive Services 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. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-08-23 14:26:16
change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) | |
| Kubernetes | 64def556-fbad-4622-930e-72d1d5589bf5 | [Preview]: Configure Azure Kubernetes Service clusters to enable Defender profile | Microsoft Defender for Containers provides cloud-native Kubernetes security capabilities including environment hardening, workload protection, and run-time protection. When you enable the SecurityProfile.AzureDefender on your Azure Kubernetes Service cluster, an agent is deployed to your cluster to collect security event data. Learn more about Microsoft Defender for Containers: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/security-center/defender-for-kubernetes-introduction. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Contributor Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-08-23 14:26:16
add: 64def556-fbad-4622-930e-72d1d5589bf5 |
| Security Center | 57c2e3f0-98cf-4c3b-aa6b-e8f70726e74e | [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. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
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| Security Center | 672fe5a1-2fcd-42d7-b85d-902b6e28c6ff | [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 only applies to trusted launch enabled Linux virtual machines. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Key Vault | 19ea9d63-adee-4431-a95e-1913c6c1c75f | [Preview]: Azure Key Vault Managed HSM should disable public network access | Disable public network access for your Azure Key Vault Managed HSM so that it's not accessible over the public internet. This can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/key-vault/managed-hsm/private-link#allow-trusted-services-to-access-managed-hsm. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: 19ea9d63-adee-4431-a95e-1913c6c1c75f | |
| Cognitive Services | 47ba1dd7-28d9-4b07-a8d5-9813bed64e0c | Configure Cognitive Services accounts to disable public network access | Disable public network access for your Cognitive Services resource so that it's not accessible over the public internet. This can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more at: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2129800. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Disabled, Modify) | Contributor |
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change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) |
| Cognitive Services | cddd188c-4b82-4c48-a19d-ddf74ee66a01 | Cognitive Services should use private link | Azure Private Link lets you connect your virtual networks 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 Cognitive Services, you'll reduce the potential for data leakage. Learn more about private links at: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2129800. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
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| SQL | c5a62eb0-c65a-4220-8a4d-f70dd4ca95dd | Configure Azure Defender to be enabled on SQL managed instances | Enable Azure Defender on your Azure SQL Managed Instances to detect anomalous activities indicating unusual and potentially harmful attempts to access or exploit databases. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | SQL Security Manager |
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| Storage | bfecdea6-31c4-4045-ad42-71b9dc87247d | Storage account encryption scopes should use double encryption for data at rest | Enable infrastructure encryption for encryption at rest of your storage account encryption scopes for added security. Infrastructure encryption ensures that your data is encrypted twice. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: bfecdea6-31c4-4045-ad42-71b9dc87247d | |
| Storage | 6fac406b-40ca-413b-bf8e-0bf964659c25 | 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. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
2021-08-23 14:26:16
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| Security Center | 95406fc3-1f69-47b0-8105-4c03b276ec5c | [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. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-08-23 14:26:16
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| Kubernetes | a1840de2-8088-4ea8-b153-b4c723e9cb01 | [Preview]: Azure Kubernetes Service clusters should have Defender profile enabled | Microsoft Defender for Containers provides cloud-native Kubernetes security capabilities including environment hardening, workload protection, and run-time protection. When you enable the SecurityProfile.AzureDefender on your Azure Kubernetes Service cluster, an agent is deployed to your cluster to collect security event data. Learn more about Microsoft Defender for Containers in https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/security-center/defender-for-kubernetes-introduction | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
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add: a1840de2-8088-4ea8-b153-b4c723e9cb01 | |
| Bot Service | ffea632e-4e3a-4424-bf78-10e179bb2e1a | Bot Service should have local authentication methods disabled | Disabling local authentication methods improves security by ensuring that a bot uses AAD exclusively for authentication. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-08-23 14:26:16
add: ffea632e-4e3a-4424-bf78-10e179bb2e1a | |
| Security Center | 6074e9a3-c711-4856-976d-24d51f9e065b | [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. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-08-23 14:26:16
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| Cognitive Services | db630ad5-52e9-4f4d-9c44-53912fe40053 | Configure Cognitive Services accounts with private endpoints | Private endpoints connect your virtual networks to Azure services without a public IP address at the source or destination. By mapping private endpoints to Cognitive Services, you'll reduce the potential for data leakage. Learn more about private links at: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2129800. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor Cognitive Services Contributor |
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change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) |
| Cognitive Services | 0725b4dd-7e76-479c-a735-68e7ee23d5ca | Cognitive Services accounts should disable public network access | Disabling public network access improves security by ensuring that Cognitive Services account isn't exposed on the public internet. Creating private endpoints can limit exposure of Cognitive Services account. Learn more at: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2129800. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-08-23 14:26:16
change: Major (1.0.1 > 2.0.0) | |
| Security Center | 5f8eb305-9c9f-4abe-9bb0-df220d9faba2 | [Preview]: Configure supported Linux virtual machines to automatically install the Azure Security agent | Configure supported Linux virtual machines to automatically install the Azure Security agent. Security Center collects events from the agent and uses them to provide security alerts and tailored hardening tasks (recommendations). Target virtual machines must be in a supported location. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-08-23 14:26:16
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| Key Vault | d1d6d8bb-cc7c-420f-8c7d-6f6f5279a844 | [Preview]: Configure Azure Key Vault Managed HSM with private endpoints | Private endpoints connect your virtual networks to Azure services without a public IP address at the source or destination. By mapping private endpoints to Azure Key Vault Managed HSM, you can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/key-vault/managed-hsm/private-link. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor Managed HSM contributor |
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add: d1d6d8bb-cc7c-420f-8c7d-6f6f5279a844 |
| Key Vault | 59fee2f4-d439-4f1b-9b9a-982e1474bfd8 | [Preview]: Azure Key Vault Managed HSM should use private link | Private link provides a way to connect Azure Key Vault Managed HSM to your Azure resources without sending traffic over the public internet. Private link provides defense in depth protection against data exfiltration. Learn more at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/key-vault/managed-hsm/private-link | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
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add: 59fee2f4-d439-4f1b-9b9a-982e1474bfd8 | |
| Security Center | a21f8c92-9e22-4f09-b759-50500d1d2dda | [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 only applies to trusted launch enabled Linux virtual machine scale sets. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Monitoring | 0fc55270-f8bf-4feb-b7b8-5e7e7eacc6a6 | Azure Monitor Private Link Scope should use private link | Azure Private Link lets you connect your virtual networks 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 Azure Monitor Private Links Scope, you can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more about private links at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-monitor/logs/private-link-security. | n/a | n/a | 2021-08-16 16:08:10 remove: 0fc55270-f8bf-4feb-b7b8-5e7e7eacc6a6 (i) |
| SQL | 78215662-041e-49ed-a9dd-5385911b3a1f | Azure SQL Managed Instance should have Azure Active Directory Only Authentication enabled | Disabling local authentication methods and allowing only Azure Active Directory Authentication improves security by ensuring that Azure SQL Managed Instances can exclusively be accessed by Azure Active Directory identities. Learn more at: aka.ms/adonlycreate. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: 78215662-041e-49ed-a9dd-5385911b3a1f | |
| Kubernetes | 9f061a12-e40d-4183-a00e-171812443373 | 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. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-08-13 17:07:49
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| Media Services | 8bfe3603-0888-404a-87ff-5c1b6b4cc5e3 | Azure Media Services accounts should disable public network access | Disabling public network access improves security by ensuring that Media Services resources are not exposed on the public internet. Creating private endpoints can limit exposure of Media Services resources. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/mediaservicesprivatelinkdocs. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: 8bfe3603-0888-404a-87ff-5c1b6b4cc5e3 | |
| SQL | 0a370ff3-6cab-4e85-8995-295fd854c5b8 | SQL servers should use customer-managed keys to encrypt data at rest | Implementing Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) with your own key provides increased transparency and control over the TDE Protector, increased security with an HSM-backed external service, and promotion of separation of duties. This recommendation applies to organizations with a related compliance requirement. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: 0a370ff3-6cab-4e85-8995-295fd854c5b8 | |
| SQL | abda6d70-9778-44e7-84a8-06713e6db027 | Azure SQL Database should have Azure Active Directory Only Authentication enabled | Disabling local authentication methods and allowing only Azure Active Directory Authentication improves security by ensuring that Azure SQL Databases can exclusively be accessed by Azure Active Directory identities. Learn more at: aka.ms/adonlycreate. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: abda6d70-9778-44e7-84a8-06713e6db027 | |
| Kubernetes | febd0533-8e55-448f-b837-bd0e06f16469 | 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. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-08-13 17:07:49
change: Major (6.1.0 > 7.0.0) | |
| SQL | ac01ad65-10e5-46df-bdd9-6b0cad13e1d2 | SQL managed instances should use customer-managed keys to encrypt data at rest | Implementing Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) with your own key provides you with increased transparency and control over the TDE Protector, increased security with an HSM-backed external service, and promotion of separation of duties. This recommendation applies to organizations with a related compliance requirement. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-08-13 17:07:49
add: ac01ad65-10e5-46df-bdd9-6b0cad13e1d2 | |
| Batch | 6f68b69f-05fe-49cd-b361-777ee9ca7e35 | Batch accounts should have local authentication methods disabled | Disabling local authentication methods improves security by ensuring that Batch accounts require Azure Active Directory identities exclusively for authentication. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/batch/auth. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-08-09 19:32:42
add: 6f68b69f-05fe-49cd-b361-777ee9ca7e35 | |
| Kubernetes | 993c2fcd-2b29-49d2-9eb0-df2c3a730c32 | Azure Kubernetes Service Clusters should have local authentication methods disabled | Disabling local authentication methods improves security by ensuring that Azure Kubernetes Service Clusters should exclusively require Azure Active Directory identities for authentication. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/aks-disable-local-accounts. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-08-09 19:32:42
add: 993c2fcd-2b29-49d2-9eb0-df2c3a730c32 | |
| Batch | 4dbc2f5c-51cf-4e38-9179-c7028eed2274 | Configure Batch accounts to disable local authentication | Disable location authentication methods so that your Batch accounts require Azure Active Directory identities exclusively for authentication. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/batch/auth. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | Contributor |
2021-08-09 19:32:42
add: 4dbc2f5c-51cf-4e38-9179-c7028eed2274 |
| Container Registry | 524b0254-c285-4903-bee6-bb8126cde579 | Container registries should have exports disabled | Disabling exports improves security by ensuring data in a registry is accessed solely via the dataplane ('docker pull'). Data cannot be moved out of the registry via 'acr import' or via 'acr transfer'. In order to disable exports, public network access must be disabled. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/acr/export-policy. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-08-09 19:32:42
add: 524b0254-c285-4903-bee6-bb8126cde579 | |
| SignalR | f70eecba-335d-4bbc-81d5-5b17b03d498f | Azure SignalR Service should have local authentication methods disabled | Disabling local authentication methods improves security by ensuring that Azure SignalR Service exclusively require Azure Active Directory identities for authentication. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-08-09 19:32:42
add: f70eecba-335d-4bbc-81d5-5b17b03d498f | |
| Batch | 1760f9d4-7206-436e-a28f-d9f3a5c8a227 | Azure Batch pools should have disk encryption enabled | Enabling Azure Batch disk encryption ensures that data is always encrypted at rest on your Azure Batch compute node. Learn more about disk encryption in Batch at https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/batch/disk-encryption. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled, Deny) |
2021-08-09 19:32:42
add: 1760f9d4-7206-436e-a28f-d9f3a5c8a227 | |
| SQL | fd2d1a6e-6d95-4df2-ad00-504bf0273406 | Configure Arc-enabled machines running SQL Server to have SQL Server extension installed. | To ensure that SQL Server - Azure Arc resources are created by default when SQL Server instance is found on Azure Arc enabled windows server, the latter should have SQL Server extension installed and the server's managed identity should be configured with Azure Connected SQL Server Onboarding role | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Log Analytics Contributor User Access Administrator |
2021-08-09 19:32:42
add: fd2d1a6e-6d95-4df2-ad00-504bf0273406 |
| Machine Learning | 3948394e-63de-11ea-bc55-0242ac130003 | [Preview]: Configure an approval endpoint called prior to jobs running for specified Azure Machine Learning computes | Configure an approval endpoint called prior to jobs running for specified Azure Machine Learning computes and can be assigned at the workspace. For more information. For more information, visit https://aka.ms/amlpolicydoc. | Default: enforceSetting Allowed: (enforceSetting, disabled) |
2021-08-02 15:58:22
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| Machine Learning | 6a6f7384-63de-11ea-bc55-0242ac130003 | [Preview]: Configure code signing for training code for specified Azure Machine Learning computes | Provide code signing for training code in specified Azure Machine Learning computes and can be assigned at the workspace. For more information, visit https://aka.ms/amlpolicydoc. | Default: enforceSetting Allowed: (enforceSetting, disabled) |
2021-08-02 15:58:22
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| Machine Learning | 1d413020-63de-11ea-bc55-0242ac130003 | [Preview]: Configure log filter expressions and datastore to be used for full logs for specified Azure Machine Learning computes | Provide log filter expression and datastore to be used for full logs in specified Azure Machine Learning computes and can be assigned at the workspace. For more information, visit https://aka.ms/amlpolicydoc. | Default: enforceSetting Allowed: (enforceSetting, disabled) |
2021-08-02 15:58:22
change: Major, suffix remains equal (2.0.0-preview > 3.0.0-preview) | |
| Machine Learning | 53c70b02-63dd-11ea-bc55-0242ac130003 | [Preview]: Configure allowed module authors for specified Azure Machine Learning computes | Provide allowed module authors in specified Azure Machine Learning computes and can be assigned at the workspace. For more information, visit https://aka.ms/amlpolicydoc. | Default: enforceSetting Allowed: (enforceSetting, disabled) |
2021-08-02 15:58:22
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| Machine Learning | 77eeea86-7e81-4a7d-9067-de844d096752 | [Preview]: Configure allowed Python packages for specified Azure Machine Learning computes | Provide allowed Python packages in specified Azure Machine Learning computes and can be assigned at the workspace. For more information, visit https://aka.ms/amlpolicydoc. | Default: enforceSetting Allowed: (enforceSetting, disabled) |
2021-08-02 15:58:22
change: Major, suffix remains equal (2.0.0-preview > 3.0.0-preview) | |
| Machine Learning | 5853517a-63de-11ea-bc55-0242ac130003 | [Preview]: Configure allowed registries for specified Azure Machine Learning computes | Provide registries that are allowed in specified Azure Machine Learning computes and can be assigned at the workspace. For more information, visit https://aka.ms/amlpolicydoc. | Default: enforceSetting Allowed: (enforceSetting, disabled) |
2021-08-02 15:58:22
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| Security Center | 73d6ab6c-2475-4850-afd6-43795f3492ef | Deploy Workflow Automation for Azure Security Center recommendations | Enable automation of Azure Security Center recommendations. This policy deploys a workflow automation with your conditions and triggers 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. | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
2021-07-30 15:17:20
change: Major (3.0.0 > 4.0.0) |
| Security Center | d3d1e68e-49d4-4b56-acff-93cef644b432 | [Deprecated]: Configure Azure Defender for container registries to be enabled | Azure Defender for container registries provides vulnerability scanning of any images pulled within the last 30 days, pushed to your registry, or imported, and exposes detailed findings per image. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Security Admin |
2021-07-30 15:17:20
add: d3d1e68e-49d4-4b56-acff-93cef644b432 |
| Backup | af783da1-4ad1-42be-800d-d19c70038820 | [Preview]: Configure Recovery Services vaults to use private DNS zones for backup | Use private DNS zones to override the DNS resolution for a private endpoint. A private DNS zone links to your virtual network to resolve to your Recovery Services vault. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/AB-PrivateEndpoints. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor |
2021-07-30 15:17:20
change: Patch, suffix remains equal (1.0.0-preview > 1.0.1-preview) |
| Security Center | 509122b9-ddd9-47ba-a5f1-d0dac20be63c | Deploy Workflow Automation for Azure Security Center regulatory compliance | Enable automation of Azure Security Center regulatory compliance. This policy deploys a workflow automation with your conditions and triggers 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. | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
2021-07-30 15:17:20
change: Major (3.0.0 > 4.0.0) |
| Security Center | 1f725891-01c0-420a-9059-4fa46cb770b7 | Configure Azure Defender for Key Vaults to be enabled | Azure 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. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Security Admin |
2021-07-30 15:17:20
add: 1f725891-01c0-420a-9059-4fa46cb770b7 |
| Security Center | f1525828-9a90-4fcf-be48-268cdd02361e | Deploy Workflow Automation for Azure Security Center alerts | Enable automation of Azure Security Center alerts. This policy deploys a workflow automation with your conditions and triggers 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. | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
2021-07-30 15:17:20
change: Major (3.0.0 > 4.0.0) |
| Security Center | 74c30959-af11-47b3-9ed2-a26e03f427a3 | Configure Azure Defender for Storage to be enabled | Azure Defender for Storage provides detections of unusual and potentially harmful attempts to access or exploit storage accounts. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Security Admin |
2021-07-30 15:17:20
add: 74c30959-af11-47b3-9ed2-a26e03f427a3 |
| Security Center | 50ea7265-7d8c-429e-9a7d-ca1f410191c3 | Configure Azure Defender for SQL servers on machines to be enabled | Azure Defender for SQL provides functionality for surfacing and mitigating potential database vulnerabilities, detecting anomalous activities that could indicate threats to SQL databases, and discovering and classifying sensitive data. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Security Admin |
2021-07-30 15:17:20
add: 50ea7265-7d8c-429e-9a7d-ca1f410191c3 |
| SQL | 36d49e87-48c4-4f2e-beed-ba4ed02b71f5 | Configure Azure Defender to be enabled on SQL servers | Enable Azure Defender on your Azure SQL Servers to detect anomalous activities indicating unusual and potentially harmful attempts to access or exploit databases. | Fixed: DeployIfNotExists | SQL Security Manager |
2021-07-30 15:17:20
change: Minor (2.0.0 > 2.1.0) |
| Monitoring | 91cb9edd-cd92-4d2f-b2f2-bdd8d065a3d4 | Configure Dependency agent on Azure Arc enabled Windows servers | Enable VM insights on servers and machines connected to Azure through Arc enabled servers by installing the Dependency agent virtual machine extension. VM insights uses the Dependency agent to collect network metrics and discovered data about processes running on the machine and external process dependencies. See more - https://aka.ms/vminsightsdocs. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-07-30 15:17:20
change: Major (1.2.1 > 2.0.0) |
| Backup | deeddb44-9f94-4903-9fa0-081d524406e3 | [Preview]: Azure Recovery Services vaults should use private link for backup | 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 Azure Recovery Services vaults, data leakage risks are reduced. Learn more about private links at: https://aka.ms/AB-PrivateEndpoints. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
2021-07-30 15:17:20
change: Major, suffix remains equal (1.0.0-preview > 2.0.0-preview) | |
| SQL | f4c68484-132f-41f9-9b6d-3e4b1cb55036 | Configure SQL servers to have auditing enabled | To ensure the operations performed against your SQL assets are captured, SQL servers should have auditing enabled. This is sometimes required for compliance with regulatory standards. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | SQL Security Manager Storage Account Contributor |
2021-07-30 15:17:20
change: Major (1.2.0 > 2.0.0) |
| Security Center | 133047bf-1369-41e3-a3be-74a11ed1395a | [Deprecated]: Configure Azure Defender for Kubernetes to be enabled | Azure Defender for Kubernetes provides real-time threat protection for containerized environments and generates alerts for suspicious activities. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Security Admin |
2021-07-30 15:17:20
add: 133047bf-1369-41e3-a3be-74a11ed1395a |
| Azure Edge Hardware Center | 08a6b96f-576e-47a2-8511-119a212d344d | Azure Edge Hardware Center devices should have double encryption support enabled | Ensure that devices ordered from Azure Edge Hardware Center have double encryption support enabled, to secure the data at rest on the device. This option adds a second layer of data encryption. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-07-30 15:17:20
add: 08a6b96f-576e-47a2-8511-119a212d344d | |
| Network | 21a6bc25-125e-4d13-b82d-2e19b7208ab7 | 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 | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-07-30 15:17:20
add: 21a6bc25-125e-4d13-b82d-2e19b7208ab7 | |
| Security Center | 8e86a5b6-b9bd-49d1-8e21-4bb8a0862222 | Configure Azure Defender for servers to be enabled | Azure Defender for servers provides real-time threat protection for server workloads and generates hardening recommendations as well as alerts about suspicious activities. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Security Admin |
2021-07-30 15:17:20
add: 8e86a5b6-b9bd-49d1-8e21-4bb8a0862222 |
| Security Center | b7021b2b-08fd-4dc0-9de7-3c6ece09faf9 | Configure Azure Defender for Resource Manager to be enabled | Azure Defender for Resource Manager automatically monitors the resource management operations in your organization. Azure Defender detects threats and alerts you about suspicious activity. Learn more about the capabilities of Azure Defender for Resource Manager at https://aka.ms/defender-for-resource-manager . Enabling this Azure Defender plan results in charges. Learn about the pricing details per region on Security Center's pricing page: https://aka.ms/pricing-security-center . | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Security Admin |
2021-07-30 15:17:20
add: b7021b2b-08fd-4dc0-9de7-3c6ece09faf9 |
| Security Center | cdfcce10-4578-4ecd-9703-530938e4abcb | Deploy export to Event Hub for Azure Security Center data | Enable export to Event Hub of Azure Security Center data. This policy deploys an export to Event Hub 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. | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
2021-07-30 15:17:20
change: Major (3.0.0 > 4.0.0) |
| Storage | 044985bb-afe1-42cd-8a36-9d5d42424537 | Storage account keys should not be expired | Ensure the user storage account keys are not expired when key expiration policy is set, for improving security of account keys by taking action when the keys are expired. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-07-30 15:17:20
change: Major (2.0.0 > 3.0.0) | |
| Monitoring | 69af7d4a-7b18-4044-93a9-2651498ef203 | Configure Log Analytics extension on Azure Arc enabled Windows servers | Enable VM insights on servers and machines connected to Azure through Arc enabled servers by installing the Log Analytics virtual machine extension. VM insights uses the Log Analytics agent to collect the guest OS performance data, and provides insights into their performance. See more - https://aka.ms/vminsightsdocs. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-07-30 15:17:20
change: Major (1.2.0 > 2.0.0) |
| Security Center | 0a9fbe0d-c5c4-4da8-87d8-f4fd77338835 | Azure Defender for open-source relational databases should be enabled | Azure Defender for open-source relational databases detects anomalous activities indicating unusual and potentially harmful attempts to access or exploit databases. Learn more about the capabilities of Azure Defender for open-source relational databases at https://aka.ms/AzDforOpenSourceDBsDocu. Important: Enabling this plan will result in charges for protecting your open-source relational databases. Learn about the pricing on Security Center's pricing page: https://aka.ms/pricing-security-center | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-07-30 15:17:20
add: 0a9fbe0d-c5c4-4da8-87d8-f4fd77338835 | |
| Security Center | 2370a3c1-4a25-4283-a91a-c9c1a145fb2f | Configure Azure Defender for DNS to be enabled | Azure Defender for DNS provides an additional layer of protection for your cloud resources by continuously monitoring all DNS queries from your Azure resources. Azure Defender alerts you about suspicious activity at the DNS layer. Learn more about the capabilities of Azure Defender for DNS at https://aka.ms/defender-for-dns . Enabling this Azure Defender plan results in charges. Learn about the pricing details per region on Security Center's pricing page: https://aka.ms/pricing-security-center . | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Security Admin |
2021-07-30 15:17:20
add: 2370a3c1-4a25-4283-a91a-c9c1a145fb2f |
| Security Center | b99b73e7-074b-4089-9395-b7236f094491 | Configure Azure Defender for Azure SQL database to be enabled | Azure Defender for SQL provides functionality for surfacing and mitigating potential database vulnerabilities, detecting anomalous activities that could indicate threats to SQL databases, and discovering and classifying sensitive data. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Security Admin |
2021-07-30 15:17:20
add: b99b73e7-074b-4089-9395-b7236f094491 |
| Security Center | ffb6f416-7bd2-4488-8828-56585fef2be9 | Deploy export to Log Analytics workspace for Azure Security Center data | Enable export to Log Analytics workspace of Azure Security Center data. This policy deploys an export to Log Analytics workspace configuration with your conditions and target workspace 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. | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
2021-07-30 15:17:20
change: Major (3.0.0 > 4.0.0) |
| Monitoring | deacecc0-9f84-44d2-bb82-46f32d766d43 | Configure Dependency agent on Azure Arc enabled Linux servers | Enable VM insights on servers and machines connected to Azure through Arc enabled servers by installing the Dependency agent virtual machine extension. VM insights uses the Dependency agent to collect network metrics and discovered data about processes running on the machine and external process dependencies. See more - https://aka.ms/vminsightsdocs. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-07-30 15:17:20
change: Major (1.2.0 > 2.0.0) |
| Security Center | b40e7bcd-a1e5-47fe-b9cf-2f534d0bfb7d | Configure Azure Defender for App Service to be enabled | Azure Defender for App Service leverages the scale of the cloud, and the visibility that Azure has as a cloud provider, to monitor for common web app attacks. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Security Admin |
2021-07-30 15:17:20
add: b40e7bcd-a1e5-47fe-b9cf-2f534d0bfb7d |
| Monitoring | d3ba9c42-9dd5-441a-957c-274031c750c0 | Configure Azure Log Analytics workspaces to disable public network access for log ingestion and querying | Improve workspace security by blocking log ingestion and querying from public networks. Only private-link connected networks will be able to ingest and query logs on this workspace. Learn more at https://aka.ms/AzMonPrivateLink#configure-log-analytics. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-07-30 15:17:20
change: Minor (1.0.0 > 1.1.0) |
| SQL | c5a62eb0-c65a-4220-8a4d-f70dd4ca95dd | Configure Azure Defender to be enabled on SQL managed instances | Enable Azure Defender on your Azure SQL Managed Instances to detect anomalous activities indicating unusual and potentially harmful attempts to access or exploit databases. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | SQL Security Manager |
2021-07-30 15:17:20
add: c5a62eb0-c65a-4220-8a4d-f70dd4ca95dd |
| Search | 76a56461-9dc0-40f0-82f5-2453283afa2f | Azure Cognitive Search services should use customer-managed keys to encrypt data at rest | Enabling encryption at rest using a customer-managed key on your Azure Cognitive Search services provides additional control over the key used to encrypt data at rest. This feature is often applicable to customers with special compliance requirements to manage data encryption keys using a key vault. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-07-30 15:17:20
add: 76a56461-9dc0-40f0-82f5-2453283afa2f | |
| Monitoring | 9d2b61b4-1d14-4a63-be30-d4498e7ad2cf | Configure Log Analytics extension on Azure Arc enabled Linux servers | Enable VM insights on servers and machines connected to Azure through Arc enabled servers by installing the Log Analytics virtual machine extension. VM insights uses the Log Analytics agent to collect the guest OS performance data, and provides insights into their performance. See more - https://aka.ms/vminsightsdocs. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-07-30 15:17:20
change: Major (1.2.0 > 2.0.0) |
| SQL | 86a912f6-9a06-4e26-b447-11b16ba8659f | Deploy SQL DB transparent data encryption | Enables transparent data encryption on SQL databases | Fixed: DeployIfNotExists | SQL DB Contributor |
2021-07-16 14:58:38
change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) |
| SQL | 17k78e20-9358-41c9-923c-fb736d382a12 | Transparent Data Encryption on SQL databases should be enabled | Transparent data encryption should be enabled to protect data-at-rest and meet compliance requirements | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-07-16 14:58:38
change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) | |
| Security Center | 0961003e-5a0a-4549-abde-af6a37f2724d | Virtual machines should encrypt temp disks, caches, and data flows between Compute and Storage resources | By default, a virtual machine's OS and data disks are encrypted-at-rest using platform-managed keys. Temp disks, data caches and data flowing between compute and storage aren't encrypted. Disregard this recommendation if: 1. using encryption-at-host, or 2. server-side encryption on Managed Disks meets your security requirements. Learn more in: Server-side encryption of Azure Disk Storage: https://aka.ms/disksse, Different disk encryption offerings: https://aka.ms/diskencryptioncomparison | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-07-15 16:24:53
change: Patch (2.0.0 > 2.0.1) | |
| Cosmos DB | 862e97cf-49fc-4a5c-9de4-40d4e2e7c8eb | Azure Cosmos DB accounts should have firewall rules | Firewall rules should be defined on your Azure Cosmos DB accounts to prevent traffic from unauthorized sources. Accounts that have at least one IP rule defined with the virtual network filter enabled are deemed compliant. Accounts disabling public access are also deemed compliant. | Default: Deny Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-07-15 16:24:53
change: Major (1.0.1 > 2.0.0) | |
| Monitoring | dddfa1af-dcd6-42f4-b5b0-e1db01e0b405 | Configure Azure Application Insights components to disable public network access for log ingestion and querying | Disable components log ingestion and querying from public networks access to improve security. Only private-link connected networks will be able to ingest and query logs on this workspace. Learn more at https://aka.ms/AzMonPrivateLink#configure-application-insights. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | Application Insights Component Contributor |
2021-07-15 16:24:53
change: Minor (1.0.0 > 1.1.0) |
| Cache | 5d8094d7-7340-465a-b6fd-e60ab7e48920 | Configure Azure Cache for Redis with private endpoints | Private endpoints let you connect your virtual network to Azure services without a public IP address at the source or destination. By mapping private endpoints to your Azure Cache for Redis resources, you can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/redis/privateendpoint. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Redis Cache Contributor |
2021-07-15 16:24:53
add: 5d8094d7-7340-465a-b6fd-e60ab7e48920 |
| Cosmos DB | 5450f5bd-9c72-4390-a9c4-a7aba4edfdd2 | Cosmos DB database accounts should have local authentication methods disabled | Disabling local authentication methods improves security by ensuring that Cosmos DB database accounts exclusively require Azure Active Directory identities for authentication. Learn more at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db/how-to-setup-rbac#disable-local-auth. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-07-07 15:26:31
add: 5450f5bd-9c72-4390-a9c4-a7aba4edfdd2 | |
| Cosmos DB | dc2d41d1-4ab1-4666-a3e1-3d51c43e0049 | Configure Cosmos DB database accounts to disable local authentication | Disable local authentication methods so that your Cosmos DB database accounts exclusively require Azure Active Directory identities for authentication. Learn more at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db/how-to-setup-rbac#disable-local-auth. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | DocumentDB Account Contributor |
2021-07-07 15:26:31
add: dc2d41d1-4ab1-4666-a3e1-3d51c43e0049 |
| App Service | 546fe8d2-368d-4029-a418-6af48a7f61e5 | App Service apps should use a SKU that supports private link | With supported SKUs, 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 apps, you can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more about private links at: https://aka.ms/private-link. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-07-07 15:26:31
add: 546fe8d2-368d-4029-a418-6af48a7f61e5 | |
| Monitoring | d3ba9c42-9dd5-441a-957c-274031c750c0 | Configure Azure Log Analytics workspaces to disable public network access for log ingestion and querying | Improve workspace security by blocking log ingestion and querying from public networks. Only private-link connected networks will be able to ingest and query logs on this workspace. Learn more at https://aka.ms/AzMonPrivateLink#configure-log-analytics. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-07-07 15:26:31
add: d3ba9c42-9dd5-441a-957c-274031c750c0 |
| Service Bus | ebaf4f25-a4e8-415f-86a8-42d9155bef0b | Service Bus namespaces should have double encryption enabled | Enabling double encryption helps protect and safeguard your data to meet your organizational security and compliance commitments. When double encryption has been enabled, data in the storage account is encrypted twice, once at the service level and once at the infrastructure level, using two different encryption algorithms and two different keys. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-07-07 15:26:31
add: ebaf4f25-a4e8-415f-86a8-42d9155bef0b | |
| Monitoring | e8185402-357b-4768-8058-f620bc0ae6b5 | Configure Azure Monitor Private Link Scopes with private endpoints | Private endpoints connect your virtual networks to Azure services without a public IP address at the source or destination. By mapping private endpoints to Azure Monitor Private Link Scopes, you can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more about private links at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-monitor/logs/private-link-security. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Contributor |
2021-07-07 15:26:31
add: e8185402-357b-4768-8058-f620bc0ae6b5 |
| Media Services | 4a591bf5-918e-4a5f-8dad-841863140d61 | Azure Media Services should use private link | Azure Private Link lets you connect your virtual networks 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 Media Services, you can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more about private links at: https://aka.ms/mediaservicesprivatelinkdocs. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-07-07 15:26:31
add: 4a591bf5-918e-4a5f-8dad-841863140d61 | |
| Security Center | c3d20c29-b36d-48fe-808b-99a87530ad99 | Azure Defender for Resource Manager should be enabled | Azure Defender for Resource Manager automatically monitors the resource management operations in your organization. Azure Defender detects threats and alerts you about suspicious activity. Learn more about the capabilities of Azure Defender for Resource Manager at https://aka.ms/defender-for-resource-manager . Enabling this Azure Defender plan results in charges. Learn about the pricing details per region on Security Center's pricing page: https://aka.ms/pricing-security-center . | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-07-07 15:26:31
change: Version remains equal, old suffix: preview (1.0.0-preview > 1.0.0) | |
| Monitoring | 437914ee-c176-4fff-8986-7e05eb971365 | Configure Azure Monitor Private Link Scope to use private DNS zones | Use private DNS zones to override the DNS resolution for a private endpoint. A private DNS zone links to your virtual network to resolve to Azure Monitor private link scope. Learn more at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-monitor/logs/private-link-security#connect-to-a-private-endpoint. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor |
2021-07-07 15:26:31
add: 437914ee-c176-4fff-8986-7e05eb971365 |
| Media Services | c5632066-946d-4766-9544-cd79bcc1286e | Configure Azure Media Services with private endpoints | Private endpoints connect your virtual networks to Azure services without a public IP address at the source or destination. By mapping private endpoints to Media Services, you can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more about private links at: https://aka.ms/mediaservicesprivatelinkdocs. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor Media Services Account Administrator |
2021-07-07 15:26:31
add: c5632066-946d-4766-9544-cd79bcc1286e |
| Event Hub | 836cd60e-87f3-4e6a-a27c-29d687f01a4c | Event Hub namespaces should have double encryption enabled | Enabling double encryption helps protect and safeguard your data to meet your organizational security and compliance commitments. When double encryption has been enabled, data in the storage account is encrypted twice, once at the service level and once at the infrastructure level, using two different encryption algorithms and two different keys. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-07-07 15:26:31
add: 836cd60e-87f3-4e6a-a27c-29d687f01a4c | |
| Media Services | b4a7f6c1-585e-4177-ad5b-c2c93f4bb991 | Configure Azure Media Services to use private DNS zones | Use private DNS zones to override the DNS resolution for a private endpoint. A private DNS zone links to your virtual network to resolve to Media Services account. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/mediaservicesprivatelinkdocs. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor |
2021-07-07 15:26:31
add: b4a7f6c1-585e-4177-ad5b-c2c93f4bb991 |
| Monitoring | 0fc55270-f8bf-4feb-b7b8-5e7e7eacc6a6 | Azure Monitor Private Link Scope should use private link | Azure Private Link lets you connect your virtual networks 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 Azure Monitor Private Links Scope, you can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more about private links at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-monitor/logs/private-link-security. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-07-07 15:26:31
add: 0fc55270-f8bf-4feb-b7b8-5e7e7eacc6a6 | |
| Storage | 044985bb-afe1-42cd-8a36-9d5d42424537 | Storage account keys should not be expired | Ensure the user storage account keys are not expired when key expiration policy is set, for improving security of account keys by taking action when the keys are expired. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-07-07 15:26:31
change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) | |
| App Service | 687aa49d-0982-40f8-bf6b-66d1da97a04b | App Service should use private link | Azure Private Link lets you connect your virtual networks 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 App Service, you can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more about private links at: https://aka.ms/private-link. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-07-07 15:26:31
add: 687aa49d-0982-40f8-bf6b-66d1da97a04b | |
| Monitoring | dddfa1af-dcd6-42f4-b5b0-e1db01e0b405 | Configure Azure Application Insights components to disable public network access for log ingestion and querying | Disable components log ingestion and querying from public networks access to improve security. Only private-link connected networks will be able to ingest and query logs on this workspace. Learn more at https://aka.ms/AzMonPrivateLink#configure-application-insights. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | Application Insights Component Contributor |
2021-07-07 15:26:31
add: dddfa1af-dcd6-42f4-b5b0-e1db01e0b405 |
| Network | 235359c5-7c52-4b82-9055-01c75cf9f60e | [Deprecated]: Service Bus should use a virtual network service endpoint | This policy audits any Service Bus not configured to use a virtual network service endpoint. The resource type Microsoft.ServiceBus/namespaces/virtualNetworkRules is deprecated in the latest API version. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-06-22 14:29:30
change: Version remains equal, new suffix: deprecated (1.0.0 > 1.0.0-deprecated) | |
| Key Vault | 951af2fa-529b-416e-ab6e-066fd85ac459 | Deploy - Configure diagnostic settings for Azure Key Vault to Log Analytics workspace | Deploys the diagnostic settings for Azure Key Vault to stream resource logs to a Log Analytics workspace when any Key Vault which is missing this diagnostic settings is created or updated. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Monitoring Contributor Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-06-22 14:29:30
change: Patch (1.0.0 > 1.0.1) |
| Security Center | 8b5ad9ab-3d44-4a6e-9ac3-75b04ea5fd28 | [Preview]: Configure machines to automatically create the Azure Security Center pipeline for Azure Monitor Agent | Configure machines to automatically create the Azure Security Center pipeline for Azure Monitor Agent. Security Center 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 to store audit records. Target virtual machines must be in a supported location. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Contributor |
2021-06-22 14:29:30
add: 8b5ad9ab-3d44-4a6e-9ac3-75b04ea5fd28 |
| App Service | 817dcf37-e83d-4999-a472-644eada2ea1e | App Service Environment should be configured with strongest TLS Cipher suites | The two most minimal and strongest cipher suites required for App Service Environment to function correctly are : TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 and TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
2021-06-22 14:29:30
add: 817dcf37-e83d-4999-a472-644eada2ea1e | |
| Monitoring | 0c4bd2e8-8872-4f37-a654-03f6f38ddc76 | Application Insights components with Private Link enabled should use Bring Your Own Storage accounts for profiler and debugger. | To support private link and customer-managed key policies, create your own storage account for profiler and debugger. Learn more in https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-monitor/app/profiler-bring-your-own-storage | Default: Audit Allowed: (Deny, Audit, Disabled) |
2021-06-22 14:29:30
add: 0c4bd2e8-8872-4f37-a654-03f6f38ddc76 | |
| App Service | 72d04c29-f87d-4575-9731-419ff16a2757 | App Service Apps should be injected into a virtual network | Injecting App Service Apps in a virtual network unlocks advanced App Service networking and security features and provides you with greater control over your network security configuration. Learn more at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/app-service/web-sites-integrate-with-vnet. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-06-22 14:29:30
add: 72d04c29-f87d-4575-9731-419ff16a2757 | |
| Monitoring | 199d5677-e4d9-4264-9465-efe1839c06bd | Application Insights components should block non-Azure Active Directory based ingestion. | Enforcing log ingestion to require Azure Active Directory authentication prevents unauthenticated logs from an attacker which could lead to incorrect status, false alerts, and incorrect logs stored in the system. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Deny, Audit, Disabled) |
2021-06-22 14:29:30
add: 199d5677-e4d9-4264-9465-efe1839c06bd | |
| Security Center | 5f8eb305-9c9f-4abe-9bb0-df220d9faba2 | [Preview]: Configure supported Linux virtual machines to automatically install the Azure Security agent | Configure supported Linux virtual machines to automatically install the Azure Security agent. Security Center collects events from the agent and uses them to provide security alerts and tailored hardening tasks (recommendations). Target virtual machines must be in a supported location. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-06-22 14:29:30
change: Major, suffix remains equal (2.0.0-preview > 3.0.0-preview) |
| App Service | 81dff7c0-4020-4b58-955d-c076a2136b56 | Configure App Services to disable public network access | Disable public network access for your App Services so that it is not accessible over the public internet. This can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/app-service-private-endpoint. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Website Contributor |
2021-06-22 14:29:30
add: 81dff7c0-4020-4b58-955d-c076a2136b56 |
| Monitoring | e15effd4-2278-4c65-a0da-4d6f6d1890e2 | Log Analytics Workspaces should block non-Azure Active Directory based ingestion. | Enforcing log ingestion to require Azure Active Directory authentication prevents unauthenticated logs from an attacker which could lead to incorrect status, false alerts, and incorrect logs stored in the system. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Deny, Audit, Disabled) |
2021-06-22 14:29:30
add: e15effd4-2278-4c65-a0da-4d6f6d1890e2 | |
| Security Center | 1537496a-b1e8-482b-a06a-1cc2415cdc7b | [Preview]: Configure supported Windows machines to automatically install the Azure Security agent | Configure supported Windows machines to automatically install the Azure Security agent. Security Center collects events from the agent and uses them to provide security alerts and tailored hardening tasks (recommendations). Target virtual machines must be in a supported location. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-06-22 14:29:30
change: Major, suffix remains equal (2.0.0-preview > 3.0.0-preview) |
| Monitoring | 8e3e61b3-0b32-22d5-4edf-55f87fdb5955 | Configure Log Analytics workspace and automation account to centralize logs and monitoring | Deploy resource group containing Log Analytics workspace and linked automation account to centralize logs and monitoring. The automation account is aprerequisite for solutions like Updates and Change Tracking. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) | Contributor |
2021-06-22 14:29:30
add: 8e3e61b3-0b32-22d5-4edf-55f87fdb5955 |
| App Service | 2d048aca-6479-4923-88f5-e2ac295d9af3 | App Service Environment apps should not be reachable over public internet | To ensure apps deployed in an App Service Environment are not accessible over public internet, one should deploy App Service Environment with an IP address in virtual network. To set the IP address to a virtual network IP, the App Service Environment must be deployed with an internal load balancer. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-06-22 14:29:30
add: 2d048aca-6479-4923-88f5-e2ac295d9af3 | |
| App Service | 63a0ac64-5d5f-4569-8a3d-df67cc1ce9d7 | App Services should disable public network access | Disabling public network access improves security by ensuring that the App Service is not exposed on the public internet. Creating private endpoints can limit exposure of an App Service. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/app-service-private-endpoint. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-06-22 14:29:30
add: 63a0ac64-5d5f-4569-8a3d-df67cc1ce9d7 | |
| App Service | d79ab062-dffd-4318-8344-f70de714c0bc | [Deprecated]: App Service should disable public network access | Disabling public network access improves security by ensuring that the app service is not exposed on the public internet. Creating private endpoints can limit exposure of the app service. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/app-service-private-endpoint. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
2021-06-22 14:29:30
change: Version remains equal, new suffix: deprecated (1.0.0 > 1.0.0-deprecated) | |
| App Service | b318f84a-b872-429b-ac6d-a01b96814452 | Configure App Services to use private DNS zones | Use private DNS zones to override the DNS resolution for a private endpoint. A private DNS zone links a virtual network to an App Service. Learn more at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/app-service/networking/private-endpoint#dns. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor |
2021-06-22 14:29:30
add: b318f84a-b872-429b-ac6d-a01b96814452 |
| App Service | eb4d34ab-0929-491c-bbf3-61e13da19f9a | App Service Environment should be provisioned with latest versions | Only allow App Service Environment version 2 or version 3 to be provisioned. Older versions of App Service Environment require manual management of Azure resources and have greater scaling limitations. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-06-22 14:29:30
add: eb4d34ab-0929-491c-bbf3-61e13da19f9a | |
| App Service | 91a78b24-f231-4a8a-8da9-02c35b2b6510 | Resource logs in App Services should be 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. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-06-22 14:29:30
change: Major (2.0.0 > 1.0.0) | |
| Storage | 8c6a50c6-9ffd-4ae7-986f-5fa6111f9a54 | 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. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-06-22 14:29:30
add: 8c6a50c6-9ffd-4ae7-986f-5fa6111f9a54 | |
| Search | b4330a05-a843-4bc8-bf9a-cacce50c67f4 | 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 | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-06-17 14:24:41
change: Major (4.0.1 > 5.0.0) | |
| Data Lake | c95c74d9-38fe-4f0d-af86-0c7d626a315c | Resource logs in Data Lake Analytics 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 | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-06-17 14:24:41
change: Major (4.0.1 > 5.0.0) | |
| Stream Analytics | f9be5368-9bf5-4b84-9e0a-7850da98bb46 | Resource logs in Azure Stream Analytics 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 | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-06-17 14:24:41
change: Major (4.0.1 > 5.0.0) | |
| Event Hub | 83a214f7-d01a-484b-91a9-ed54470c9a6a | Resource logs in Event Hub 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 | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-06-17 14:24:41
change: Major (4.0.1 > 5.0.0) | |
| Data Lake | 057ef27e-665e-4328-8ea3-04b3122bd9fb | Resource logs in Azure Data Lake Store 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 | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-06-17 14:24:41
change: Major (4.0.1 > 5.0.0) | |
| Service Bus | f8d36e2f-389b-4ee4-898d-21aeb69a0f45 | 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 | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-06-17 14:24:41
change: Major (4.0.1 > 5.0.0) | |
| Logic Apps | 34f95f76-5386-4de7-b824-0d8478470c9d | Resource logs in Logic Apps 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 | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-06-17 14:24:41
change: Major (4.0.1 > 5.0.0) | |
| Batch | 428256e6-1fac-4f48-a757-df34c2b3336d | Resource logs in Batch accounts 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 | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-06-17 14:24:41
change: Major (4.0.1 > 5.0.0) | |
| App Service | 91a78b24-f231-4a8a-8da9-02c35b2b6510 | Resource logs in App Services should be 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. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-06-17 14:24:41
change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) | |
| Key Vault | cf820ca0-f99e-4f3e-84fb-66e913812d21 | Resource logs in Key Vault 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 | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-06-17 14:24:41
change: Major (4.0.1 > 5.0.0) | |
| Backup | 98d0b9f8-fd90-49c9-88e2-d3baf3b0dd86 | Configure backup on virtual machines without a given tag to a new recovery services vault with a default policy | Enforce backup for all virtual machines by deploying a recovery services vault in the same location and resource group as the virtual machine. Doing this is useful when different application teams in your organization are allocated separate resource groups and need to manage their own backups and restores. You can optionally exclude virtual machines containing a specified tag to control the scope of assignment. See https://aka.ms/AzureVMAppCentricBackupExcludeTag. | Default: deployIfNotExists Allowed: (deployIfNotExists, auditIfNotExists, disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor Backup Contributor |
2021-06-15 14:05:41
change: Version remains equal, old suffix: preview (3.0.0-preview > 3.0.0) |
| Container Registry | 79fdfe03-ffcb-4e55-b4d0-b925b8241759 | Configure container registries to disable local authentication. | Disable local authentication so that your container registries exclusively require Azure Active Directory identities for authentication. Learn more about at: https://aka.ms/acr/authentication. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | Contributor |
2021-06-15 14:05:41
add: 79fdfe03-ffcb-4e55-b4d0-b925b8241759 |
| Backup | 345fa903-145c-4fe1-8bcd-93ec2adccde8 | Configure backup on virtual machines with a given tag to an existing recovery services vault in the same location | Enforce backup for all virtual machines by backing them up to an existing central recovery services vault in the same location and subscription as the virtual machine. Doing this is useful when there is a central team in your organization managing backups for all resources in a subscription. You can optionally include virtual machines containing a specified tag to control the scope of assignment. See https://aka.ms/AzureVMCentralBackupIncludeTag. | Default: deployIfNotExists Allowed: (deployIfNotExists, auditIfNotExists, disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor Backup Contributor |
2021-06-15 14:05:41
change: Version remains equal, old suffix: preview (3.0.0-preview > 3.0.0) |
| Container Registry | dc921057-6b28-4fbe-9b83-f7bec05db6c2 | Container registries should have local authentication methods disabled. | Disabling local authentication methods improves security by ensuring that container registries exclusively require Azure Active Directory identities for authentication. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/acr/authentication. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-06-15 14:05:41
add: dc921057-6b28-4fbe-9b83-f7bec05db6c2 | |
| Backup | 83644c87-93dd-49fe-bf9f-6aff8fd0834e | Configure backup on virtual machines with a given tag to a new recovery services vault with a default policy | Enforce backup for all virtual machines by deploying a recovery services vault in the same location and resource group as the virtual machine. Doing this is useful when different application teams in your organization are allocated separate resource groups and need to manage their own backups and restores. You can optionally include virtual machines containing a specified tag to control the scope of assignment. See https://aka.ms/AzureVMAppCentricBackupIncludeTag. | Default: deployIfNotExists Allowed: (deployIfNotExists, auditIfNotExists, disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor Backup Contributor |
2021-06-15 14:05:41
change: Version remains equal, old suffix: preview (3.0.0-preview > 3.0.0) |
| SQL | abfb4388-5bf4-4ad7-ba82-2cd2f41ceae9 | Azure Defender for SQL should be enabled for unprotected Azure SQL servers | Audit SQL servers without Advanced Data Security | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-06-08 15:17:13
change: Patch (2.0.0 > 2.0.1) | |
| Key Vault | 1e66c121-a66a-4b1f-9b83-0fd99bf0fc2d | Key vaults should have soft delete enabled | Deleting a key vault without soft delete enabled permanently deletes all secrets, keys, and certificates stored in the key vault. Accidental deletion of a key vault can lead to permanent data loss. Soft delete allows you to recover an accidentally deleted key vault for a configurable retention period. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-06-08 15:17:13
change: Major (1.0.2 > 2.0.0) | |
| SQL | abfb7388-5bf4-4ad7-ba99-2cd2f41cebb9 | Azure Defender for SQL should be enabled for unprotected SQL Managed Instances | Audit each SQL Managed Instance without advanced data security. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-06-08 15:17:13
change: Patch (1.0.1 > 1.0.2) | |
| Key Vault | 0b60c0b2-2dc2-4e1c-b5c9-abbed971de53 | Key vaults should have purge protection enabled | Malicious deletion of a key vault can lead to permanent data loss. A malicious insider in your organization can potentially delete and purge key vaults. Purge protection protects you from insider attacks by enforcing a mandatory retention period for soft deleted key vaults. No one inside your organization or Microsoft will be able to purge your key vaults during the soft delete retention period. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-06-08 15:17:13
change: Major (1.1.1 > 2.0.0) | |
| Security Center | 95406fc3-1f69-47b0-8105-4c03b276ec5c | [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. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-06-08 15:17:13
add: 95406fc3-1f69-47b0-8105-4c03b276ec5c |
| Security Center | 7cb1b219-61c6-47e0-b80c-4472cadeeb5f | [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. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-06-08 15:17:13
add: 7cb1b219-61c6-47e0-b80c-4472cadeeb5f |
| Key Vault | 55615ac9-af46-4a59-874e-391cc3dfb490 | [Preview]: Azure Key Vault should disable public network access | Disable public network access for your key vault so that it's not accessible over the public internet. This can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/akvprivatelink. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-06-08 15:17:13
change: Major, suffix remains equal (1.1.0-preview > 2.0.0-preview) | |
| SQL | 6134c3db-786f-471e-87bc-8f479dc890f6 | Deploy Advanced Data Security on SQL servers | This policy enables Advanced Data Security on SQL Servers. This includes turning on Threat Detection and Vulnerability Assessment. It will automatically create a storage account in the same region and resource group as the SQL server to store scan results, with a 'sqlva' prefix. | Fixed: DeployIfNotExists | SQL Security Manager Storage Account Contributor |
2021-06-08 15:17:13
change: Minor (1.1.0 > 1.2.0) |
| Security Center | e494853f-93c3-4e44-9210-d12f61a64b34 | [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. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-06-08 15:17:13
add: e494853f-93c3-4e44-9210-d12f61a64b34 |
| Kubernetes | 233a2a17-77ca-4fb1-9b6b-69223d272a44 | 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 AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-06-08 15:17:13
change: Patch (6.1.0 > 6.1.1) | |
| Kubernetes | 440b515e-a580-421e-abeb-b159a61ddcbc | [Deprecated]: Kubernetes cluster containers should only listen on allowed ports | Restrict containers to listen only on allowed ports to secure access to the Kubernetes cluster. The policy is deprecating since container port is only informative field which cannot decide the port container is actually using. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-06-08 15:17:13
change: Patch (6.1.0 > 6.1.1) | |
| Network | b6e2945c-0b7b-40f5-9233-7a5323b5cdc6 | Network Watcher should be enabled | Network Watcher is a regional service that enables you to monitor and diagnose conditions at a network scenario level in, to, and from Azure. Scenario level monitoring enables you to diagnose problems at an end to end network level view. It is required to have a network watcher resource group to be created in every region where a virtual network is present. An alert is enabled if a network watcher resource group is not available in a particular region. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-06-02 22:44:52
change: Major (2.0.0 > 3.0.0) | |
| Cognitive Services | 14de9e63-1b31-492e-a5a3-c3f7fd57f555 | Configure Cognitive Services accounts to disable local authentication methods | Disable local authentication methods so that your Cognitive Services accounts require Azure Active Directory identities exclusively for authentication. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/cs/auth. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | Contributor |
2021-06-02 22:44:52
add: 14de9e63-1b31-492e-a5a3-c3f7fd57f555 |
| Kubernetes | d2e7ea85-6b44-4317-a0be-1b951587f626 | Kubernetes clusters should not grant CAP_SYS_ADMIN security capabilities | To reduce the attack surface of your containers, restrict CAP_SYS_ADMIN Linux capabilities. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-06-02 22:44:52
change: Minor, suffix remains equal (2.0.0-preview > 2.1.0-preview) | |
| Monitoring | 17b3de92-f710-4cf4-aa55-0e7859f1ed7b | [Preview]: Configure system-assigned managed identity to enable Azure Monitor assignments on VMs | Configure system-assigned managed identity to virtual machines hosted in Azure that are supported by Azure Monitor and do not have a system-assigned managed identity. A system-assigned managed identity is a prerequisite for all Azure Monitor assignments and must be added to machines before using any Azure Monitor extension. Target virtual machines must be in a supported location. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor Managed Identity Contributor Managed Identity Operator |
2021-06-02 22:44:52
change: Major, suffix remains equal (2.0.0-preview > 3.0.0-preview) |
| Monitoring | ca817e41-e85a-4783-bc7f-dc532d36235e | Configure Windows virtual machines to run Azure Monitor Agent | Automate the deployment of Azure Monitor Agent extension on your Windows virtual machines for collecting telemetry data from the guest OS. This policy will install the extension if the OS and region are supported and system-assigned managed identity is enabled, and skip install otherwise. Learn more: https://aka.ms/AMAOverview. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-06-02 22:44:52
change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) |
| Security Center | 2ada9901-073c-444a-9a9a-91865174f0aa | [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. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Contributor |
2021-06-02 22:44:52
add: 2ada9901-073c-444a-9a9a-91865174f0aa |
| Security Center | 1537496a-b1e8-482b-a06a-1cc2415cdc7b | [Preview]: Configure supported Windows machines to automatically install the Azure Security agent | Configure supported Windows machines to automatically install the Azure Security agent. Security Center collects events from the agent and uses them to provide security alerts and tailored hardening tasks (recommendations). Target virtual machines must be in a supported location. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-06-02 22:44:52
change: Major, suffix remains equal (1.0.0-preview > 2.0.0-preview) |
| Security Center | 15fdbc87-8a47-4ee9-a2aa-9a2ea1f37554 | 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. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-06-02 22:44:52
change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) | |
| App Configuration | 72bc14af-4ab8-43af-b4e4-38e7983f9a1f | Configure App Configuration stores to disable local authentication methods | Disable local authentication methods so that your App Configuration stores require Azure Active Directory identities exclusively for authentication. Learn more at: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2161954. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | Contributor |
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add: 72bc14af-4ab8-43af-b4e4-38e7983f9a1f |
| App Configuration | b08ab3ca-1062-4db3-8803-eec9cae605d6 | App Configuration stores should have local authentication methods disabled | Disabling local authentication methods improves security by ensuring that App Configuration stores require Azure Active Directory identities exclusively for authentication. Learn more at: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2161954. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: b08ab3ca-1062-4db3-8803-eec9cae605d6 | |
| Cognitive Services | 71ef260a-8f18-47b7-abcb-62d0673d94dc | Cognitive Services accounts should have local authentication methods disabled | Disabling local authentication methods improves security by ensuring that Cognitive Services accounts require Azure Active Directory identities exclusively for authentication. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/cs/auth. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: 71ef260a-8f18-47b7-abcb-62d0673d94dc | |
| App Service | d79ab062-dffd-4318-8344-f70de714c0bc | [Deprecated]: App Service should disable public network access | Disabling public network access improves security by ensuring that the app service is not exposed on the public internet. Creating private endpoints can limit exposure of the app service. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/app-service-private-endpoint. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
2021-05-26 13:43:16
add: d79ab062-dffd-4318-8344-f70de714c0bc | |
| Security Center | f6358610-e532-4236-b178-4c65865eb262 | [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. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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add: f6358610-e532-4236-b178-4c65865eb262 | |
| Web PubSub | 1b9c0b58-fc7b-42c8-8010-cdfa1d1b8544 | Configure Azure Web PubSub Service with private endpoints | Private endpoints connect your virtual networks to Azure services without a public IP address at the source or destination. By mapping private endpoints to Azure Web PubSub service, you can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more about private links at: https://aka.ms/awps/privatelink. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor SignalR/Web PubSub Contributor |
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add: 1b9c0b58-fc7b-42c8-8010-cdfa1d1b8544 |
| Security Center | b1bb3592-47b8-4150-8db0-bfdcc2c8965b | [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. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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add: b1bb3592-47b8-4150-8db0-bfdcc2c8965b | |
| Monitoring | 94c1f94d-33b0-4062-bd04-1cdc3e7eece2 | Azure Log Search Alerts over Log Analytics workspaces should use customer-managed keys | Ensure that Azure Log Search Alerts are implementing customer-managed keys, by storing the query text using the storage account that the customer had provided for the queried Log Analytics workspace. For more information, visit https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-monitor/platform/customer-managed-keys#customer-managed-key-overview. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled, Deny) |
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add: 94c1f94d-33b0-4062-bd04-1cdc3e7eece2 | |
| Guest Configuration | 3e4e2bd5-15a2-4628-b3e1-58977e9793f3 | Audit Windows machines that do not have the specified Windows PowerShell modules installed | Requires that prerequisites are deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. Machines are non-compliant if a module isn't available in a location specified by the environment variable PSModulePath. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) | |
| SQL | 83cef61d-dbd1-4b20-a4fc-5fbc7da10833 | MySQL servers should use customer-managed keys to encrypt data at rest | Use customer-managed keys to manage the encryption at rest of your MySQL servers. By default, the data is encrypted at rest with service-managed keys, but customer-managed keys are commonly required to meet regulatory compliance standards. Customer-managed keys enable the data to be encrypted with an Azure Key Vault key created and owned by you. You have full control and responsibility for the key lifecycle, including rotation and management. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Patch (1.0.3 > 1.0.4) | |
| Web PubSub | 0b026355-49cb-467b-8ac4-f777874e175a | Configure Azure Web PubSub Service to use private DNS zones | Use private DNS zones to override the DNS resolution for a private endpoint. A private DNS zone links to your virtual network to resolve to Azure Web PubSub service. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/awps/privatelink. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor |
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add: 0b026355-49cb-467b-8ac4-f777874e175a |
| Site Recovery | 942bd215-1a66-44be-af65-6a1c0318dbe2 | [Preview]: Configure Azure Recovery Services vaults to use private DNS zones | Use private DNS zones to override the DNS resolution for a private endpoint. A private DNS zone links to your virtual network to resolve to Recovery Services Vaults. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/privatednszone. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor |
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add: 942bd215-1a66-44be-af65-6a1c0318dbe2 |
| Web PubSub | bf45113f-264e-4a87-88f9-29ac8a0aca6a | Azure Web PubSub Service should disable public network access | Disabling public network access improves security by ensuring that Azure Web PubSub service isn't exposed on the public internet. Creating private endpoints can limit exposure of Azure Web PubSub service. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/awps/networkacls. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: bf45113f-264e-4a87-88f9-29ac8a0aca6a | |
| Web PubSub | 5b1213e4-06e4-4ccc-81de-4201f2f7131a | Configure Azure Web PubSub Service to disable public network access | Disable public network access for your Azure Web PubSub resource so that it's not accessible over the public internet. This can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/awps/networkacls. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | SignalR/Web PubSub Contributor |
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add: 5b1213e4-06e4-4ccc-81de-4201f2f7131a |
| Web PubSub | 82909236-25f3-46a6-841c-fe1020f95ae1 | Azure Web PubSub Service should use a SKU that supports private link | With supported SKU, 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 Azure Web PubSub service, you can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more about private links at: https://aka.ms/awps/privatelink. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: 82909236-25f3-46a6-841c-fe1020f95ae1 | |
| Web PubSub | 52630df9-ca7e-442b-853b-c6ce548b31a2 | Azure Web PubSub Service should use private link | Azure Private Link lets you connect your virtual networks 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 Azure Web PubSub Service, you can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more about private links at: https://aka.ms/awps/privatelink. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: 52630df9-ca7e-442b-853b-c6ce548b31a2 | |
| SQL | 18adea5e-f416-4d0f-8aa8-d24321e3e274 | PostgreSQL servers should use customer-managed keys to encrypt data at rest | Use customer-managed keys to manage the encryption at rest of your PostgreSQL servers. By default, the data is encrypted at rest with service-managed keys, but customer-managed keys are commonly required to meet regulatory compliance standards. Customer-managed keys enable the data to be encrypted with an Azure Key Vault key created and owned by you. You have full control and responsibility for the key lifecycle, including rotation and management. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Patch (1.0.3 > 1.0.4) | |
| Backup | af783da1-4ad1-42be-800d-d19c70038820 | [Preview]: Configure Recovery Services vaults to use private DNS zones for backup | Use private DNS zones to override the DNS resolution for a private endpoint. A private DNS zone links to your virtual network to resolve to your Recovery Services vault. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/AB-PrivateEndpoints. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor |
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add: af783da1-4ad1-42be-800d-d19c70038820 |
| Monitoring | 2ea82cdd-f2e8-4500-af75-67a2e084ca74 | Configure Linux machines to be associated with a Data Collection Rule | Deploy a Data Collection Rule Association to link a Linux virtual machine, virtual machine scale set, or Arc machine to the specified Data Collection Rule. The list of locations and OS images are updated over time as support is increased. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Monitoring Contributor Log Analytics Contributor |
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add: 2ea82cdd-f2e8-4500-af75-67a2e084ca74 |
| Kubernetes | 708b60a6-d253-4fe0-9114-4be4c00f012c | [Preview]: Configure Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes clusters to install Azure Defender's extension | Azure Defender's extension for Azure Arc provides threat protection for your Arc enabled Kubernetes clusters. The extension collects data from all nodes in the cluster and sends it to the Azure Defender for Kubernetes backend in the cloud for further analysis. Learn more in https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/security-center/defender-for-kubernetes-azure-arc. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Contributor Log Analytics Contributor |
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add: 708b60a6-d253-4fe0-9114-4be4c00f012c |
| Monitoring | eab1f514-22e3-42e3-9a1f-e1dc9199355c | Configure Windows machines to be associated with a Data Collection Rule | Deploy Association to link Windows virtual machines to specified Data Collection Rule. The list of OS images is updated over time as support is increased. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Monitoring Contributor |
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add: eab1f514-22e3-42e3-9a1f-e1dc9199355c |
| Site Recovery | 11e3da8c-1d68-4392-badd-0ff3c43ab5b0 | [Preview]: Recovery Services vaults 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 Azure Recovery Services vaults, data leakage risks are reduced. Learn more about private links for Azure Site Recovery at: https://aka.ms/HybridScenarios-PrivateLink and https://aka.ms/AzureToAzure-PrivateLink. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
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add: 11e3da8c-1d68-4392-badd-0ff3c43ab5b0 | |
| Kubernetes | 8dfab9c4-fe7b-49ad-85e4-1e9be085358f | [Preview]: Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes clusters should have Azure Defender's extension installed | Azure Defender's extension for Azure Arc provides threat protection for your Arc enabled Kubernetes clusters. The extension collects data from nodes in the cluster and sends it to the Azure Defender for Kubernetes backend in the cloud for further analysis. Learn more in https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/security-center/defender-for-kubernetes-azure-arc. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Site Recovery | e95a8a5c-0987-421f-84ab-df4d88ebf7d1 | [Preview]: Configure private endpoints on Azure Recovery Services vaults | Private endpoints connect your virtual network to Azure services without a public IP address at the source or destination. By mapping private endpoints to your site recovery resources of Recovery Services vaults, you can reduce data leakage risks. To use private links, managed service identity must be assigned to Recovery Services Vaults. Learn more about private links at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/site-recovery/azure-to-azure-how-to-enable-replication-private-endpoints. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor Site Recovery Contributor |
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add: e95a8a5c-0987-421f-84ab-df4d88ebf7d1 |
| Monitoring | ca817e41-e85a-4783-bc7f-dc532d36235e | Configure Windows virtual machines to run Azure Monitor Agent | Automate the deployment of Azure Monitor Agent extension on your Windows virtual machines for collecting telemetry data from the guest OS. This policy will install the extension if the OS and region are supported and system-assigned managed identity is enabled, and skip install otherwise. Learn more: https://aka.ms/AMAOverview. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
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| Monitoring | a4034bc6-ae50-406d-bf76-50f4ee5a7811 | Configure Linux virtual machines to run Azure Monitor Agent | Automate the deployment of Azure Monitor Agent extension on your Linux virtual machines for collecting telemetry data from the guest OS. This policy will install the extension if the OS and region are supported and system-assigned managed identity is enabled, and skip install otherwise. Learn more: https://aka.ms/AMAOverview. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
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| Synapse | 38d8df46-cf4e-4073-8e03-48c24b29de0d | Azure Synapse workspaces should disable public network access | Disabling public network access improves security by ensuring that the Synapse workspace isn't exposed on the public internet. Creating private endpoints can limit exposure of your Synapse workspaces. Learn more at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics/security/connectivity-settings. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: 38d8df46-cf4e-4073-8e03-48c24b29de0d | |
| Synapse | 5c8cad01-ef30-4891-b230-652dadb4876a | Configure Azure Synapse workspaces to disable public network access | Disable public network access for your Synapse workspace so that it is not accessible over the public internet. This can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics/security/connectivity-settings. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | Contributor |
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add: 5c8cad01-ef30-4891-b230-652dadb4876a |
| Network | 5e1cd26a-5090-4fdb-9d6a-84a90335e22d | Configure network security groups to use specific workspace for traffic analytics | If it already has traffic analytics enabled, then policy will overwrite its existing settings with the ones provided during policy creation. Traffic analytics is a cloud-based solution that provides visibility into user and application activity in cloud networks. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Contributor |
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add: 5e1cd26a-5090-4fdb-9d6a-84a90335e22d |
| Media Services | ccf93279-9c91-4143-a841-8d1f21505455 | Azure Media Services accounts that allow access to the legacy v2 API should be blocked | The Media Services legacy v2 API allows requests that cannot be managed using Azure Policy. Media Services resources created using the 2020-05-01 API or later block access to the legacy v2 API. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: ccf93279-9c91-4143-a841-8d1f21505455 | |
| Media Services | a77d8bb4-8d22-4bc1-a884-f582a705b480 | Azure Media Services accounts should use an API that supports Private Link | Media Services accounts should be created with an API that supports private link. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: a77d8bb4-8d22-4bc1-a884-f582a705b480 | |
| Guest Configuration | f79fef0d-0050-4c18-a303-5babb9c14ac7 | Windows machines should only have local accounts that are allowed | Requires that prerequisites are deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. This definition is not supported on Windows Server 2012 or 2012 R2. Managing user accounts using Azure Active Directory is a best practice for management of identities. Reducing local machine accounts helps prevent the proliferation of identities managed outside a central system. Machines are non-compliant if local user accounts exist that are enabled and not listed in the policy parameter. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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add: f79fef0d-0050-4c18-a303-5babb9c14ac7 | |
| Network | 2f080164-9f4d-497e-9db6-416dc9f7b48a | Network Watcher flow logs should have traffic analytics enabled | Traffic analytics analyzes Network Watcher network security group flow logs to provide insights into traffic flow in your Azure cloud. It can be used to visualize network activity across your Azure subscriptions and identify hot spots, identify security threats, understand traffic flow patterns, pinpoint network misconfigurations and more. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
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add: 2f080164-9f4d-497e-9db6-416dc9f7b48a | |
| Network | e920df7f-9a64-4066-9b58-52684c02a091 | Configure network security groups to enable traffic analytics | Traffic analytics can be enabled for all network security groups hosted in a particular region with the settings provided during policy creation. If it already has Traffic analytics enabled, then policy does not overwrite its settings. Flow Logs are also enabled for the Network security groups that do not have it. Traffic analytics is a cloud-based solution that provides visibility into user and application activity in cloud networks. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Contributor |
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| Media Services | e9914afe-31cd-4b8a-92fa-c887f847d477 | Azure Media Services jobs with HTTPS inputs should limit input URIs to permitted URI patterns | Restrict HTTPS inputs used by Media Services jobs to known endpoints. Inputs from HTTPS endpoints can be disabled entirely by setting an empty list of allowed job input patterns. Where job inputs specify a 'baseUri' the patterns will be matched against this value; when 'baseUri' is not set, the pattern is matched against the 'files' property. | Default: Deny Allowed: (Deny, Disabled) |
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change: Patch (1.0.0 > 1.0.1) | |
| Monitoring | f47b5582-33ec-4c5c-87c0-b010a6b2e917 | Virtual machines should be connected to a specified workspace | Reports virtual machines as non-compliant if they aren't logging to the Log Analytics workspace specified in the policy/initiative assignment. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Minor (1.0.1 > 1.1.0) | |
| Azure Active Directory | 3aa87b5a-7813-4b57-8a43-42dd9df5aaa7 | Azure Active Directory Domain Services managed domains should use TLS 1.2 only mode | Use TLS 1.2 only mode for your managed domains. By default, Azure AD Domain Services enables the use of ciphers such as NTLM v1 and TLS v1. These ciphers may be required for some legacy applications, but are considered weak and can be disabled if you don't need them. When TLS 1.2 only mode is enabled, any client making a request that is not using TLS 1.2 will fail. Learn more at https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory-domain-services/secure-your-domain. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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change: Minor (1.0.0 > 1.1.0) | |
| Media Services | daccf7e4-9808-470c-a848-1c5b582a1afb | Azure Media Services content key policies should use token authentication | Content key policies define the conditions that must be met to access content keys. A token restriction ensures content keys can only be accessed by users that have valid tokens from an authentication service, for example Azure Active Directory. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: daccf7e4-9808-470c-a848-1c5b582a1afb | |
| Guest Configuration | 73db37c4-f180-4b0f-ab2c-8ee96467686b | Linux machines should only have local accounts that are allowed | Requires that prerequisites are deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. Managing user accounts using Azure Active Directory is a best practice for management of identities. Reducing local machine accounts helps prevent the proliferation of identities managed outside a central system. Machines are non-compliant if local user accounts exist that are enabled and not listed in the policy parameter. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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add: 73db37c4-f180-4b0f-ab2c-8ee96467686b | |
| Monitoring | 1bc02227-0cb6-4e11-8f53-eb0b22eab7e8 | Application Insights components should block log ingestion and querying from public networks | Improve Application Insights security by blocking log ingestion and querying from public networks. Only private-link connected networks will be able to ingest and query logs of this component. Learn more at https://aka.ms/AzMonPrivateLink#configure-application-insights. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-05-11 14:06:18
add: 1bc02227-0cb6-4e11-8f53-eb0b22eab7e8 | |
| SQL | 9a7c7a7d-49e5-4213-bea8-6a502b6272e0 | Deploy Diagnostic Settings for Azure SQL Database to Event Hub | Deploys the diagnostic settings for Azure SQL Database to stream to a regional Event Hub on any Azure SQL Database which is missing this diagnostic settings is created or updated. | Fixed: DeployIfNotExists | Contributor |
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change: Minor (1.1.0 > 1.2.0) |
| SQL | db048e65-913c-49f9-bb5f-1084184671d3 | Configure Advanced Threat Protection to be enabled on Azure database for PostgreSQL servers | Enable Advanced Threat Protection on your non-Basic tier Azure database for PostgreSQL servers to detect anomalous activities indicating unusual and potentially harmful attempts to access or exploit databases. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Contributor |
2021-05-11 14:06:18
add: db048e65-913c-49f9-bb5f-1084184671d3 |
| Monitoring | 6c53d030-cc64-46f0-906d-2bc061cd1334 | Log Analytics workspaces should block log ingestion and querying from public networks | Improve workspace security by blocking log ingestion and querying from public networks. Only private-link connected networks will be able to ingest and query logs on this workspace. Learn more at https://aka.ms/AzMonPrivateLink#configure-log-analytics. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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add: 6c53d030-cc64-46f0-906d-2bc061cd1334 | |
| Machine Learning | a6f9a2d0-cff7-4855-83ad-4cd750666512 | Configure Machine Learning computes to disable local authentication methods | Disable location authentication methods so that your Machine Learning computes require Azure Active Directory identities exclusively for authentication. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/azure-ml-aad-policy. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | Contributor |
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add: a6f9a2d0-cff7-4855-83ad-4cd750666512 |
| Kubernetes | 95edb821-ddaf-4404-9732-666045e056b4 | 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 AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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change: Major (6.0.0 > 7.0.0) | |
| Monitoring | 41388f1c-2db0-4c25-95b2-35d7f5ccbfa9 | Azure Monitor should collect activity logs from all regions | This policy audits the Azure Monitor log profile which does not export activities from all Azure supported regions including global. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) | |
| Storage | 044985bb-afe1-42cd-8a36-9d5d42424537 | Storage account keys should not be expired | Ensure the user storage account keys are not expired when key expiration policy is set, for improving security of account keys by taking action when the keys are expired. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: 044985bb-afe1-42cd-8a36-9d5d42424537 | |
| Machine Learning | e96a9a5f-07ca-471b-9bc5-6a0f33cbd68f | Machine Learning computes should have local authentication methods disabled | Disabling local authentication methods improves security by ensuring that Machine Learning computes require Azure Active Directory identities exclusively for authentication. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/azure-ml-aad-policy. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: e96a9a5f-07ca-471b-9bc5-6a0f33cbd68f | |
| Guest Configuration | 72650e9f-97bc-4b2a-ab5f-9781a9fcecbc | Windows machines should meet requirements of 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. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| SQL | 80ed5239-4122-41ed-b54a-6f1fa7552816 | Configure Advanced Threat Protection to be enabled on Azure database for MySQL servers | Enable Advanced Threat Protection on your non-Basic tier Azure database for MySQL servers to detect anomalous activities indicating unusual and potentially harmful attempts to access or exploit databases. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Contributor |
2021-05-11 14:06:18
add: 80ed5239-4122-41ed-b54a-6f1fa7552816 |
| Data Factory | 0088bc63-6dee-4a9c-9d29-91cfdc848952 | SQL Server Integration Services integration runtimes on Azure Data Factory should be joined to a virtual network | Azure Virtual Network deployment provides enhanced security and isolation for your SQL Server Integration Services integration runtimes on Azure Data Factory, as well as subnets, access control policies, and other features to further restrict access. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-05-11 14:06:18
change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) | |
| Guest Configuration | fc9b3da7-8347-4380-8e70-0a0361d8dedd | 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. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-05-11 14:06:18
change: Patch, suffix remains equal (1.1.0-preview > 1.1.1-preview) | |
| Guest Configuration | 331e8ea8-378a-410f-a2e5-ae22f38bb0da | Deploy the Linux Guest Configuration extension to enable Guest Configuration assignments on Linux VMs | This policy deploys the Linux Guest Configuration extension to Linux virtual machines hosted in Azure that are supported by Guest Configuration. The Linux Guest Configuration extension is a prerequisite for all Linux Guest Configuration assignments and must be deployed to machines before using any Linux Guest Configuration policy definition. For more information on Guest Configuration, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
2021-05-11 14:06:18
change: Patch (1.0.0 > 1.0.1) |
| Guest Configuration | 385f5831-96d4-41db-9a3c-cd3af78aaae6 | Deploy the Windows Guest Configuration extension to enable Guest Configuration assignments on Windows VMs | This policy deploys the Windows Guest Configuration extension to Windows virtual machines hosted in Azure that are supported by Guest Configuration. The Windows Guest Configuration extension is a prerequisite for all Windows Guest Configuration assignments and must be deployed to machines before using any Windows Guest Configuration policy definition. For more information on Guest Configuration, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
2021-05-11 14:06:18
change: Patch (1.0.0 > 1.0.1) |
| SQL | a6cf7411-da9e-49e2-aec0-cba0250eaf8c | Configure Advanced Threat Protection to be enabled on Azure database for MariaDB servers | Enable Advanced Threat Protection on your non-Basic tier Azure database for MariaDB servers to detect anomalous activities indicating unusual and potentially harmful attempts to access or exploit databases. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Contributor |
2021-05-11 14:06:18
add: a6cf7411-da9e-49e2-aec0-cba0250eaf8c |
| Guest Configuration | 5752e6d6-1206-46d8-8ab1-ecc2f71a8112 | Windows web servers should be configured to use secure communication protocols | To protect the privacy of information communicated over the Internet, your web servers should use the latest version of the industry-standard cryptographic protocol, Transport Layer Security (TLS). TLS secures communications over a network by using security certificates to encrypt a connection between machines. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-05-11 14:06:18
change: Major (2.1.0 > 3.0.0) | |
| Compute | bc05b96c-0b36-4ca9-82f0-5c53f96ce05a | Configure disk access resources to use private DNS zones | Use private DNS zones to override the DNS resolution for a private endpoint. A private DNS zone links to your virtual network to resolve to a managed disk. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/disksprivatelinksdoc. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor |
2021-05-11 14:06:18
add: bc05b96c-0b36-4ca9-82f0-5c53f96ce05a |
| Security Center | 57c2e3f0-98cf-4c3b-aa6b-e8f70726e74e | [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. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-05-04 14:34:06
add: 57c2e3f0-98cf-4c3b-aa6b-e8f70726e74e |
| Security Center | 98ea2fc7-6fc6-4fd1-9d8d-6331154da071 | [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. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-05-04 14:34:06
add: 98ea2fc7-6fc6-4fd1-9d8d-6331154da071 |
| Security Center | 1c30f9cd-b84c-49cc-aa2c-9288447cc3b3 | [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. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
2021-05-04 14:34:06
add: 1c30f9cd-b84c-49cc-aa2c-9288447cc3b3 | |
| Media Services | e9914afe-31cd-4b8a-92fa-c887f847d477 | Azure Media Services jobs with HTTPS inputs should limit input URIs to permitted URI patterns | Restrict HTTPS inputs used by Media Services jobs to known endpoints. Inputs from HTTPS endpoints can be disabled entirely by setting an empty list of allowed job input patterns. Where job inputs specify a 'baseUri' the patterns will be matched against this value; when 'baseUri' is not set, the pattern is matched against the 'files' property. | Default: Deny Allowed: (Deny, Disabled) |
2021-05-04 14:34:06
add: e9914afe-31cd-4b8a-92fa-c887f847d477 | |
| Security Center | 6074e9a3-c711-4856-976d-24d51f9e065b | [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. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-05-04 14:34:06
add: 6074e9a3-c711-4856-976d-24d51f9e065b |
| Security Center | 1cb4d9c2-f88f-4069-bee0-dba239a57b09 | [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 only applies to trusted launch enabled virtual machines. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-05-04 14:34:06
add: 1cb4d9c2-f88f-4069-bee0-dba239a57b09 | |
| Security Center | 5a913c68-0590-402c-a531-e57e19379da3 | [Deprecated]: Operating system version should be the most current version for your cloud service roles | Keeping the operating system (OS) on the most recent supported version for your cloud service roles enhances the systems security posture. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-05-04 14:34:06
change: Version remains equal, new suffix: deprecated (1.0.0 > 1.0.0-deprecated) | |
| Security Center | 13ce0167-8ca6-4048-8e6b-f996402e3c1b | [Preview]: Configure machines to receive a vulnerability assessment provider | Azure Defender includes vulnerability scanning for your machines at no extra cost. You don't need a Qualys license or even a Qualys account - everything's handled seamlessly inside Security Center. When you enable this policy, Azure Defender automatically deploys the Qualys vulnerability assessment provider to all supported machines that don't already have it installed. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Security Admin |
2021-05-04 14:34:06
change: Minor, suffix remains equal (2.0.0-preview > 2.1.0-preview) |
| App Service | 1bc1795e-d44a-4d48-9b3b-6fff0fd5f9ba | Ensure that 'PHP version' is the latest, if used as a part of the API app | Periodically, newer versions are released for PHP software either due to security flaws or to include additional functionality. Using the latest PHP version for API apps is recommended in order to take advantage of security fixes, if any, and/or new functionalities of the latest version. Currently, this policy only applies to Linux web apps. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-05-04 14:34:06
change: Minor (2.0.0 > 2.1.0) | |
| App Service | 7261b898-8a84-4db8-9e04-18527132abb3 | Ensure that 'PHP version' is the latest, if used as a part of the WEB app | Periodically, newer versions are released for PHP software either due to security flaws or to include additional functionality. Using the latest PHP version for web apps is recommended in order to take advantage of security fixes, if any, and/or new functionalities of the latest version. Currently, this policy only applies to Linux web apps. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-05-04 14:34:06
change: Minor (2.0.0 > 2.1.0) | |
| Monitoring | 17b3de92-f710-4cf4-aa55-0e7859f1ed7b | [Preview]: Configure system-assigned managed identity to enable Azure Monitor assignments on VMs | Configure system-assigned managed identity to virtual machines hosted in Azure that are supported by Azure Monitor and do not have a system-assigned managed identity. A system-assigned managed identity is a prerequisite for all Azure Monitor assignments and must be added to machines before using any Azure Monitor extension. Target virtual machines must be in a supported location. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor Managed Identity Contributor Managed Identity Operator |
2021-05-04 14:34:06
change: Major, suffix remains equal (1.2.0-preview > 2.0.0-preview) |
| Storage | b5ec538c-daa0-4006-8596-35468b9148e8 | Storage account encryption scopes should use customer-managed keys to encrypt data at rest | Use customer-managed keys to manage the encryption at rest of your storage account encryption scopes. Customer-managed keys enable the data to be encrypted with an Azure key-vault key created and owned by you. You have full control and responsibility for the key lifecycle, including rotation and management. Learn more about storage account encryption scopes at https://aka.ms/encryption-scopes-overview. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-05-04 14:34:06
add: b5ec538c-daa0-4006-8596-35468b9148e8 | |
| Security Center | 672fe5a1-2fcd-42d7-b85d-902b6e28c6ff | [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 only applies to trusted launch enabled Linux virtual machines. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-05-04 14:34:06
add: 672fe5a1-2fcd-42d7-b85d-902b6e28c6ff | |
| Security Center | a21f8c92-9e22-4f09-b759-50500d1d2dda | [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 only applies to trusted launch enabled Linux virtual machine scale sets. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-05-04 14:34:06
add: a21f8c92-9e22-4f09-b759-50500d1d2dda | |
| App Service | d6545c6b-dd9d-4265-91e6-0b451e2f1c50 | App Service Environment should disable TLS 1.0 and 1.1 | TLS 1.0 and 1.1 are out-of-date protocols that do not support modern cryptographic algorithms. Disabling inbound TLS 1.0 and 1.1 traffic helps secure apps in an App Service Environment. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-05-04 14:34:06
change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) | |
| Security Center | 5f8eb305-9c9f-4abe-9bb0-df220d9faba2 | [Preview]: Configure supported Linux virtual machines to automatically install the Azure Security agent | Configure supported Linux virtual machines to automatically install the Azure Security agent. Security Center collects events from the agent and uses them to provide security alerts and tailored hardening tasks (recommendations). Target virtual machines must be in a supported location. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-05-04 14:34:06
change: Major, suffix remains equal (1.0.0-preview > 2.0.0-preview) |
| Bot Service | 52152f42-0dda-40d9-976e-abb1acdd611e | Bot Service should have isolated mode enabled | Bots should be set to 'isolated only' mode. This setting configures Bot Service channels that require traffic over the public internet to be disabled. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-05-04 14:34:06
add: 52152f42-0dda-40d9-976e-abb1acdd611e | |
| Security Center | c9b2ae08-09e2-4f0e-bb43-b60bf0135bdf | [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. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-05-04 14:34:06
add: c9b2ae08-09e2-4f0e-bb43-b60bf0135bdf |
| Security Center | 97566dd7-78ae-4997-8b36-1c7bfe0d8121 | [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 only applies to trusted launch enabled Windows virtual machines. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
2021-05-04 14:34:06
add: 97566dd7-78ae-4997-8b36-1c7bfe0d8121 | |
| Security Center | f655e522-adff-494d-95c2-52d4f6d56a42 | [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 only applies to trusted launch enabled virtual machine scale sets. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-05-04 14:34:06
add: f655e522-adff-494d-95c2-52d4f6d56a42 | |
| Backup | 98d0b9f8-fd90-49c9-88e2-d3baf3b0dd86 | Configure backup on virtual machines without a given tag to a new recovery services vault with a default policy | Enforce backup for all virtual machines by deploying a recovery services vault in the same location and resource group as the virtual machine. Doing this is useful when different application teams in your organization are allocated separate resource groups and need to manage their own backups and restores. You can optionally exclude virtual machines containing a specified tag to control the scope of assignment. See https://aka.ms/AzureVMAppCentricBackupExcludeTag. | Default: deployIfNotExists Allowed: (deployIfNotExists, auditIfNotExists, disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor Backup Contributor |
2021-04-27 15:38:15
change: Major, suffix remains equal (2.0.0-preview > 3.0.0-preview) |
| Monitoring | deacecc0-9f84-44d2-bb82-46f32d766d43 | Configure Dependency agent on Azure Arc enabled Linux servers | Enable VM insights on servers and machines connected to Azure through Arc enabled servers by installing the Dependency agent virtual machine extension. VM insights uses the Dependency agent to collect network metrics and discovered data about processes running on the machine and external process dependencies. See more - https://aka.ms/vminsightsdocs. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-04-27 15:38:15
change: Minor, old suffix: preview (1.1.0-preview > 1.2.0) |
| Security Center | 15fdbc87-8a47-4ee9-a2aa-9a2ea1f37554 | 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. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-04-27 15:38:15
add: 15fdbc87-8a47-4ee9-a2aa-9a2ea1f37554 | |
| App Service | d6545c6b-dd9d-4265-91e6-0b451e2f1c50 | App Service Environment should disable TLS 1.0 and 1.1 | TLS 1.0 and 1.1 are out-of-date protocols that do not support modern cryptographic algorithms. Disabling inbound TLS 1.0 and 1.1 traffic helps secure apps in an App Service Environment. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-04-27 15:38:15
add: d6545c6b-dd9d-4265-91e6-0b451e2f1c50 | |
| Monitoring | 91cb9edd-cd92-4d2f-b2f2-bdd8d065a3d4 | Configure Dependency agent on Azure Arc enabled Windows servers | Enable VM insights on servers and machines connected to Azure through Arc enabled servers by installing the Dependency agent virtual machine extension. VM insights uses the Dependency agent to collect network metrics and discovered data about processes running on the machine and external process dependencies. See more - https://aka.ms/vminsightsdocs. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-04-27 15:38:15
change: Patch (1.2.0 > 1.2.1) |
| SQL | 6134c3db-786f-471e-87bc-8f479dc890f6 | Deploy Advanced Data Security on SQL servers | This policy enables Advanced Data Security on SQL Servers. This includes turning on Threat Detection and Vulnerability Assessment. It will automatically create a storage account in the same region and resource group as the SQL server to store scan results, with a 'sqlva' prefix. | Fixed: DeployIfNotExists | SQL Security Manager Storage Account Contributor |
2021-04-27 15:38:15
change: Minor (1.0.0 > 1.1.0) |
| Security Center | 1e378679-f122-4a96-a739-a7729c46e1aa | Cloud Services (extended support) role instances should have an endpoint protection solution installed | Protect your Cloud Services (extended support) role instances from threats and vulnerabilities by ensuring an endpoint protection solution is installed on them. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-04-27 15:38:15
add: 1e378679-f122-4a96-a739-a7729c46e1aa | |
| Automanage | 270610db-8c04-438a-a739-e8e6745b22d3 | Configure virtual machines to be onboarded to Azure Automanage | Azure Automanage enrolls, configures, and monitors virtual machines with best practice as defined in the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure. Use this policy to apply Automanage to your selected scope. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Contributor |
2021-04-27 15:38:15
change: Minor (4.0.0 > 4.1.0) |
| App Service | 33228571-70a4-4fa1-8ca1-26d0aba8d6ef | App Service apps should enable outbound non-RFC 1918 traffic to Azure Virtual Network | By default, if one uses regional Azure Virtual Network (VNET) integration, the app only routes RFC1918 traffic into that respective virtual network. Using the API to set 'vnetRouteAllEnabled' to true enables all outbound traffic into the Azure Virtual Network. This setting allows features like network security groups and user defined routes to be used for all outbound traffic from the App Service app. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-04-27 15:38:15
add: 33228571-70a4-4fa1-8ca1-26d0aba8d6ef | |
| App Service | fb74e86f-d351-4b8d-b034-93da7391c01f | App Service Environment should enable internal encryption | Setting InternalEncryption to true encrypts the pagefile, worker disks, and internal network traffic between the front ends and workers in an App Service Environment. To learn more, refer to https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/app-service/environment/app-service-app-service-environment-custom-settings#enable-internal-encryption. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
2021-04-27 15:38:15
add: fb74e86f-d351-4b8d-b034-93da7391c01f | |
| Monitoring | 2465583e-4e78-4c15-b6be-a36cbc7c8b0f | Configure Azure Activity logs to stream to specified Log Analytics workspace | Deploys the diagnostic settings for Azure Activity to stream subscriptions audit logs to a Log Analytics workspace to monitor subscription-level events | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Monitoring Contributor Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-04-27 15:38:15
add: 2465583e-4e78-4c15-b6be-a36cbc7c8b0f |
| Security Center | 4df26ba8-026d-45b0-9521-bffa44d741d2 | Cloud Services (extended support) role instances should have system updates installed | Secure your Cloud Services (extended support) role instances by ensuring the latest security and critical updates are installed on them. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-04-27 15:38:15
add: 4df26ba8-026d-45b0-9521-bffa44d741d2 | |
| Security Center | a0c11ca4-5828-4384-a2f2-fd7444dd5b4d | Cloud Services (extended support) role instances should be configured securely | Protect your Cloud Service (extended support) role instances from attacks by ensuring they are not expolosed to any OS vulnerabilities. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-04-27 15:38:15
add: a0c11ca4-5828-4384-a2f2-fd7444dd5b4d | |
| SQL | b219b9cf-f672-4f96-9ab0-f5a3ac5e1c13 | SQL Database should avoid using GRS backup redundancy | Databases should avoid using the default geo-redundant storage for backups, if data residency rules require data to stay within a specific region. Note: Azure Policy is not enforced when creating a database using T-SQL. If not explicitly specified, database with geo-redundant backup storage is created via T-SQL. | Default: Deny Allowed: (Deny, Disabled) |
2021-04-27 15:38:15
change: Major (1.0.1 > 2.0.0) | |
| Backup | 09ce66bc-1220-4153-8104-e3f51c936913 | Configure backup on virtual machines without a given tag to an existing recovery services vault in the same location | Enforce backup for all virtual machines by backing them up to an existing central recovery services vault in the same location and subscription as the virtual machine. Doing this is useful when there is a central team in your organization managing backups for all resources in a subscription. You can optionally exclude virtual machines containing a specified tag to control the scope of assignment. See https://aka.ms/AzureVMCentralBackupExcludeTag. | Default: deployIfNotExists Allowed: (deployIfNotExists, auditIfNotExists, disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor Backup Contributor |
2021-04-27 15:38:15
change: Major (2.0.0 > 3.0.0) |
| Backup | 345fa903-145c-4fe1-8bcd-93ec2adccde8 | Configure backup on virtual machines with a given tag to an existing recovery services vault in the same location | Enforce backup for all virtual machines by backing them up to an existing central recovery services vault in the same location and subscription as the virtual machine. Doing this is useful when there is a central team in your organization managing backups for all resources in a subscription. You can optionally include virtual machines containing a specified tag to control the scope of assignment. See https://aka.ms/AzureVMCentralBackupIncludeTag. | Default: deployIfNotExists Allowed: (deployIfNotExists, auditIfNotExists, disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor Backup Contributor |
2021-04-27 15:38:15
change: Major, suffix remains equal (2.0.0-preview > 3.0.0-preview) |
| SQL | 7ea8a143-05e3-4553-abfe-f56bef8b0b70 | Configure Azure SQL database servers diagnostic settings to Log Analytics workspace | Enables auditing logs for Azure SQL Database server and stream the logs to a Log Analytics workspace when any SQL Server which is missing this auditing is created or updated | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | SQL Security Manager Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-04-27 15:38:15
change: Patch (1.0.1 > 1.0.2) |
| Backup | 83644c87-93dd-49fe-bf9f-6aff8fd0834e | Configure backup on virtual machines with a given tag to a new recovery services vault with a default policy | Enforce backup for all virtual machines by deploying a recovery services vault in the same location and resource group as the virtual machine. Doing this is useful when different application teams in your organization are allocated separate resource groups and need to manage their own backups and restores. You can optionally include virtual machines containing a specified tag to control the scope of assignment. See https://aka.ms/AzureVMAppCentricBackupIncludeTag. | Default: deployIfNotExists Allowed: (deployIfNotExists, auditIfNotExists, disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor Backup Contributor |
2021-04-27 15:38:15
change: Major, suffix remains equal (2.0.0-preview > 3.0.0-preview) |
| Monitoring | 9d2b61b4-1d14-4a63-be30-d4498e7ad2cf | Configure Log Analytics extension on Azure Arc enabled Linux servers | Enable VM insights on servers and machines connected to Azure through Arc enabled servers by installing the Log Analytics virtual machine extension. VM insights uses the Log Analytics agent to collect the guest OS performance data, and provides insights into their performance. See more - https://aka.ms/vminsightsdocs. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-04-27 15:38:15
change: Minor, old suffix: preview (1.1.0-preview > 1.2.0) |
| Monitoring | 69af7d4a-7b18-4044-93a9-2651498ef203 | Configure Log Analytics extension on Azure Arc enabled Windows servers | Enable VM insights on servers and machines connected to Azure through Arc enabled servers by installing the Log Analytics virtual machine extension. VM insights uses the Log Analytics agent to collect the guest OS performance data, and provides insights into their performance. See more - https://aka.ms/vminsightsdocs. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-04-27 15:38:15
change: Minor, old suffix: preview (1.1.0-preview > 1.2.0) |
| Cognitive Services | c4bc6f10-cb41-49eb-b000-d5ab82e2a091 | Configure Cognitive Services accounts to use private DNS zones | Use private DNS zones to override the DNS resolution for a private endpoint. A private DNS zone links to your virtual network to resolve to Cognitive Services accounts. Learn more at: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2110097. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor |
2021-04-21 13:28:46
add: c4bc6f10-cb41-49eb-b000-d5ab82e2a091 |
| Cognitive Services | 2bdd0062-9d75-436e-89df-487dd8e4b3c7 | [Deprecated]: Cognitive Services accounts should enable data encryption | This policy is deprecated. Cognitive Services have data encryption enforced. | Default: Disabled Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-04-21 13:28:46
change: Major, new suffix: deprecated (1.0.0 > 2.0.0-deprecated) | |
| Cognitive Services | cddd188c-4b82-4c48-a19d-ddf74ee66a01 | Cognitive Services should use private link | Azure Private Link lets you connect your virtual networks 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 Cognitive Services, you'll reduce the potential for data leakage. Learn more about private links at: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2129800. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
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add: cddd188c-4b82-4c48-a19d-ddf74ee66a01 | |
| Key Vault | 55615ac9-af46-4a59-874e-391cc3dfb490 | [Preview]: Azure Key Vault should disable public network access | Disable public network access for your key vault so that it's not accessible over the public internet. This can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/akvprivatelink. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-04-21 13:28:46
change: Minor, suffix remains equal (1.0.2-preview > 1.1.0-preview) | |
| Backup | 2e94d99a-8a36-4563-bc77-810d8893b671 | [Preview]: Azure Recovery Services vaults should use customer-managed keys for encrypting backup data | Use customer-managed keys to manage the encryption at rest of your backup data. By default, customer data is encrypted with service-managed keys, but customer-managed keys are commonly required to meet regulatory compliance standards. Customer-managed keys enable the data to be encrypted with an Azure Key Vault key created and owned by you. You have full control and responsibility for the key lifecycle, including rotation and management. Learn more at https://aka.ms/AB-CmkEncryption. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: 2e94d99a-8a36-4563-bc77-810d8893b671 | |
| Azure Active Directory | 3aa87b5a-7813-4b57-8a43-42dd9df5aaa7 | Azure Active Directory Domain Services managed domains should use TLS 1.2 only mode | Use TLS 1.2 only mode for your managed domains. By default, Azure AD Domain Services enables the use of ciphers such as NTLM v1 and TLS v1. These ciphers may be required for some legacy applications, but are considered weak and can be disabled if you don't need them. When TLS 1.2 only mode is enabled, any client making a request that is not using TLS 1.2 will fail. Learn more at https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory-domain-services/secure-your-domain. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: 3aa87b5a-7813-4b57-8a43-42dd9df5aaa7 | |
| Key Vault | ac673a9a-f77d-4846-b2d8-a57f8e1c01d4 | [Preview]: Configure Azure Key Vaults to use private DNS zones | Use private DNS zones to override the DNS resolution for a private endpoint. A private DNS zone links to your virtual network to resolve to key vault. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/akvprivatelink. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor |
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add: ac673a9a-f77d-4846-b2d8-a57f8e1c01d4 |
| Key Vault | 9d4fad1f-5189-4a42-b29e-cf7929c6b6df | [Preview]: Configure Azure Key Vaults with private endpoints | Private endpoints connect your virtual networks to Azure services without a public IP address at the source or destination. By mapping private endpoints to key vault, you can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more about private links at: https://aka.ms/akvprivatelink. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor Key Vault Contributor |
2021-04-21 13:28:46
add: 9d4fad1f-5189-4a42-b29e-cf7929c6b6df |
| Guest Configuration | 5752e6d6-1206-46d8-8ab1-ecc2f71a8112 | Windows web servers should be configured to use secure communication protocols | To protect the privacy of information communicated over the Internet, your web servers should use the latest version of the industry-standard cryptographic protocol, Transport Layer Security (TLS). TLS secures communications over a network by using security certificates to encrypt a connection between machines. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-04-21 13:28:46
change: Minor (2.0.0 > 2.1.0) | |
| Cognitive Services | db630ad5-52e9-4f4d-9c44-53912fe40053 | Configure Cognitive Services accounts with private endpoints | Private endpoints connect your virtual networks to Azure services without a public IP address at the source or destination. By mapping private endpoints to Cognitive Services, you'll reduce the potential for data leakage. Learn more about private links at: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2129800. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor Cognitive Services Contributor |
2021-04-21 13:28:46
add: db630ad5-52e9-4f4d-9c44-53912fe40053 |
| Cognitive Services | 11566b39-f7f7-4b82-ab06-68d8700eb0a4 | [Deprecated]: Cognitive Services accounts should use customer owned storage or enable data encryption. | This policy is deprecated. Cognitive Services have data encryption enforced. | Default: Disabled Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-04-21 13:28:46
change: Major, new suffix: deprecated (1.0.0 > 2.0.0-deprecated) | |
| Key Vault | a6abeaec-4d90-4a02-805f-6b26c4d3fbe9 | [Preview]: Azure Key Vaults should use private link | Azure Private Link lets you connect your virtual networks 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 key vault, you can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more about private links at: https://aka.ms/akvprivatelink. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: a6abeaec-4d90-4a02-805f-6b26c4d3fbe9 | |
| Key Vault | ac673a9a-f77d-4846-b2d8-a57f8e1c01dc | [Preview]: Configure key vaults to disable public network access | Disable public network access for your key vault so that it's not accessible over the public internet. This can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/akvprivatelink. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | Key Vault Contributor |
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add: ac673a9a-f77d-4846-b2d8-a57f8e1c01dc |
| Backup | 013e242c-8828-4970-87b3-ab247555486d | Azure Backup should be enabled for Virtual Machines | Ensure protection of your Azure Virtual Machines by enabling Azure Backup. Azure Backup is a secure and cost effective data protection solution for Azure. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-04-21 13:28:46
change: Major (1.0.1 > 2.0.0) | |
| Automanage | 270610db-8c04-438a-a739-e8e6745b22d3 | Configure virtual machines to be onboarded to Azure Automanage | Azure Automanage enrolls, configures, and monitors virtual machines with best practice as defined in the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure. Use this policy to apply Automanage to your selected scope. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Contributor |
2021-04-13 13:28:43
change: Major (3.0.0 > 4.0.0) |
| Data Factory | 8b0323be-cc25-4b61-935d-002c3798c6ea | Azure Data Factory 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 Azure Data Factory, data leakage risks are reduced. Learn more about private links at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/data-factory/data-factory-private-link. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-04-13 13:28:43
add: 8b0323be-cc25-4b61-935d-002c3798c6ea | |
| Machine Learning | 6a6f7384-63de-11ea-bc55-0242ac130003 | [Preview]: Configure code signing for training code for specified Azure Machine Learning computes | Provide code signing for training code in specified Azure Machine Learning computes and can be assigned at the workspace. For more information, visit https://aka.ms/amlpolicydoc. | Default: enforceSetting Allowed: (enforceSetting, disabled) |
2021-04-07 13:27:17
change: Minor, suffix remains equal (2.0.0-preview > 2.1.0-preview) | |
| Backup | 09ce66bc-1220-4153-8104-e3f51c936913 | Configure backup on virtual machines without a given tag to an existing recovery services vault in the same location | Enforce backup for all virtual machines by backing them up to an existing central recovery services vault in the same location and subscription as the virtual machine. Doing this is useful when there is a central team in your organization managing backups for all resources in a subscription. You can optionally exclude virtual machines containing a specified tag to control the scope of assignment. See https://aka.ms/AzureVMCentralBackupExcludeTag. | Default: deployIfNotExists Allowed: (deployIfNotExists, auditIfNotExists, disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor Backup Contributor |
2021-04-07 13:27:17
change: Major (1.1.0 > 2.0.0) |
| Compute | 8426280e-b5be-43d9-979e-653d12a08638 | Configure managed disks to disable public network access | Disable public network access for your managed disk resource so that it's not accessible over the public internet. This can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/disksprivatelinksdoc. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | Contributor |
2021-04-07 13:27:17
add: 8426280e-b5be-43d9-979e-653d12a08638 |
| Data Factory | 496ca26b-f669-4322-a1ad-06b7b5e41882 | Configure private endpoints for Data factories | Private endpoints connect your virtual network to Azure services without a public IP address at the source or destination. By mapping private endpoints to your Azure Data Factory, you can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/data-factory/data-factory-private-link. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Data Factory Contributor |
2021-04-07 13:27:17
add: 496ca26b-f669-4322-a1ad-06b7b5e41882 |
| Compute | 582bd7a6-a5f6-4dc6-b9dc-9cb81fe0d4c5 | Configure disk access resources with private endpoints | Private endpoints connect your virtual networks to Azure services without a public IP address at the source or destination. By mapping private endpoints to disk access resources, you can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more about private links at: https://aka.ms/disksprivatelinksdoc. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Contributor |
2021-04-07 13:27:17
add: 582bd7a6-a5f6-4dc6-b9dc-9cb81fe0d4c5 |
| Data Factory | 08b1442b-7789-4130-8506-4f99a97226a7 | Configure Data Factories to disable public network access | Disable public network access for your Data Factory so that it is not accessible over the public internet. This can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/data-factory/data-factory-private-link. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | Data Factory Contributor |
2021-04-07 13:27:17
add: 08b1442b-7789-4130-8506-4f99a97226a7 |
| Backup | 83644c87-93dd-49fe-bf9f-6aff8fd0834e | Configure backup on virtual machines with a given tag to a new recovery services vault with a default policy | Enforce backup for all virtual machines by deploying a recovery services vault in the same location and resource group as the virtual machine. Doing this is useful when different application teams in your organization are allocated separate resource groups and need to manage their own backups and restores. You can optionally include virtual machines containing a specified tag to control the scope of assignment. See https://aka.ms/AzureVMAppCentricBackupIncludeTag. | Default: deployIfNotExists Allowed: (deployIfNotExists, auditIfNotExists, disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor Backup Contributor |
2021-04-07 13:27:17
change: Major, suffix remains equal (1.0.0-preview > 2.0.0-preview) |
| Backup | 345fa903-145c-4fe1-8bcd-93ec2adccde8 | Configure backup on virtual machines with a given tag to an existing recovery services vault in the same location | Enforce backup for all virtual machines by backing them up to an existing central recovery services vault in the same location and subscription as the virtual machine. Doing this is useful when there is a central team in your organization managing backups for all resources in a subscription. You can optionally include virtual machines containing a specified tag to control the scope of assignment. See https://aka.ms/AzureVMCentralBackupIncludeTag. | Default: deployIfNotExists Allowed: (deployIfNotExists, auditIfNotExists, disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor Backup Contributor |
2021-04-07 13:27:17
change: Major, suffix remains equal (1.0.0-preview > 2.0.0-preview) |
| Data Factory | 86cd96e1-1745-420d-94d4-d3f2fe415aa4 | Configure private DNS zones for private endpoints that connect to Azure Data Factory | Private DNS records allow private connections to private endpoints. Private endpoint connections allow secure communication by enabling private connectivity to your Azure Data Factory without a need for public IP addresses at the source or destination. For more information on private endpoints and DNS zones in Azure Data Factory, see https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/data-factory/data-factory-private-link. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor |
2021-04-07 13:27:17
add: 86cd96e1-1745-420d-94d4-d3f2fe415aa4 |
| Machine Learning | 53c70b02-63dd-11ea-bc55-0242ac130003 | [Preview]: Configure allowed module authors for specified Azure Machine Learning computes | Provide allowed module authors in specified Azure Machine Learning computes and can be assigned at the workspace. For more information, visit https://aka.ms/amlpolicydoc. | Default: enforceSetting Allowed: (enforceSetting, disabled) |
2021-04-07 13:27:17
change: Minor, suffix remains equal (2.0.0-preview > 2.1.0-preview) | |
| Compute | f39f5f49-4abf-44de-8c70-0756997bfb51 | Disk access resources 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 diskAccesses, data leakage risks are reduced. Learn more about private links at: https://aka.ms/disksprivatelinksdoc. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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add: f39f5f49-4abf-44de-8c70-0756997bfb51 | |
| Backup | 98d0b9f8-fd90-49c9-88e2-d3baf3b0dd86 | Configure backup on virtual machines without a given tag to a new recovery services vault with a default policy | Enforce backup for all virtual machines by deploying a recovery services vault in the same location and resource group as the virtual machine. Doing this is useful when different application teams in your organization are allocated separate resource groups and need to manage their own backups and restores. You can optionally exclude virtual machines containing a specified tag to control the scope of assignment. See https://aka.ms/AzureVMAppCentricBackupExcludeTag. | Default: deployIfNotExists Allowed: (deployIfNotExists, auditIfNotExists, disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor Backup Contributor |
2021-04-07 13:27:17
change: Major, suffix remains equal (1.0.0-preview > 2.0.0-preview) |
| Compute | 8405fdab-1faf-48aa-b702-999c9c172094 | Managed disks should disable public network access | Disabling public network access improves security by ensuring that a managed disk isn't exposed on the public internet. Creating private endpoints can limit exposure of managed disks. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/disksprivatelinksdoc. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
2021-04-07 13:27:17
add: 8405fdab-1faf-48aa-b702-999c9c172094 | |
| Machine Learning | 3948394e-63de-11ea-bc55-0242ac130003 | [Preview]: Configure an approval endpoint called prior to jobs running for specified Azure Machine Learning computes | Configure an approval endpoint called prior to jobs running for specified Azure Machine Learning computes and can be assigned at the workspace. For more information. For more information, visit https://aka.ms/amlpolicydoc. | Default: enforceSetting Allowed: (enforceSetting, disabled) |
2021-04-07 13:27:17
change: Minor, suffix remains equal (2.0.0-preview > 2.1.0-preview) | |
| Machine Learning | 77eeea86-7e81-4a7d-9067-de844d096752 | [Preview]: Configure allowed Python packages for specified Azure Machine Learning computes | Provide allowed Python packages in specified Azure Machine Learning computes and can be assigned at the workspace. For more information, visit https://aka.ms/amlpolicydoc. | Default: enforceSetting Allowed: (enforceSetting, disabled) |
2021-03-31 14:35:06
change: Major, suffix remains equal (1.0.0-preview > 2.0.0-preview) | |
| Guest Configuration | 480d0f91-30af-4a76-9afb-f5710ac52b09 | Private endpoints for Guest Configuration assignments should be enabled | Private endpoint connections enforce secure communication by enabling private connectivity to Guest Configuration for virtual machines. Virtual machines will be non-compliant unless they have the tag, 'EnablePrivateNetworkGC'. This tag enforces secure communication through private connectivity to Guest Configuration for Virtual Machines. Private connectivity limits access to traffic coming only from known networks and prevents access from all other IP addresses, including within Azure. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-03-31 14:35:06
add: 480d0f91-30af-4a76-9afb-f5710ac52b09 | |
| VM Image Builder | 2154edb9-244f-4741-9970-660785bccdaa | 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. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled, Deny) |
2021-03-31 14:35:06
change: Minor (1.0.1 > 1.1.0) | |
| Machine Learning | 1d413020-63de-11ea-bc55-0242ac130003 | [Preview]: Configure log filter expressions and datastore to be used for full logs for specified Azure Machine Learning computes | Provide log filter expression and datastore to be used for full logs in specified Azure Machine Learning computes and can be assigned at the workspace. For more information, visit https://aka.ms/amlpolicydoc. | Default: enforceSetting Allowed: (enforceSetting, disabled) |
2021-03-31 14:35:06
change: Major, suffix remains equal (1.0.0-preview > 2.0.0-preview) | |
| Search | 0fda3595-9f2b-4592-8675-4231d6fa82fe | Azure Cognitive Search services 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 Azure Cognitive Search, data leakage risks are reduced. Learn more about private links at: https://aka.ms/azure-cognitive-search/inbound-private-endpoints. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
2021-03-31 14:35:06
add: 0fda3595-9f2b-4592-8675-4231d6fa82fe | |
| Network | 94de2ad3-e0c1-4caf-ad78-5d47bbc83d3d | Virtual networks should be protected by Azure DDoS Protection Standard | Protect your virtual networks against volumetric and protocol attacks with Azure DDoS Protection Standard. For more information, visit https://aka.ms/ddosprotectiondocs. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Audit, Disabled) | Network Contributor |
2021-03-31 14:35:06
add: 94de2ad3-e0c1-4caf-ad78-5d47bbc83d3d |
| Synapse | ac7891a4-ac7a-4ba0-9ae9-c923e5a225ee | Configure Synapse workspaces to have auditing enabled | To ensure the operations performed against your SQL assets are captured, Synapse workspaces should have auditing enabled. This is sometimes required for compliance with regulatory standards. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | SQL Security Manager Storage Account Contributor |
2021-03-31 14:35:06
change: Minor (1.0.0 > 1.1.0) |
| Search | b698b005-b660-4837-b833-a7aaab26ddba | Configure Azure Cognitive Search services with private endpoints | Private endpoints connect your virtual network to Azure services without a public IP address at the source or destination. By mapping private endpoints to your Azure Cognitive Search service, you can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/azure-cognitive-search/inbound-private-endpoints. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor Search Service Contributor |
2021-03-31 14:35:06
add: b698b005-b660-4837-b833-a7aaab26ddba |
| Machine Learning | 3948394e-63de-11ea-bc55-0242ac130003 | [Preview]: Configure an approval endpoint called prior to jobs running for specified Azure Machine Learning computes | Configure an approval endpoint called prior to jobs running for specified Azure Machine Learning computes and can be assigned at the workspace. For more information. For more information, visit https://aka.ms/amlpolicydoc. | Default: enforceSetting Allowed: (enforceSetting, disabled) |
2021-03-31 14:35:06
change: Major, suffix remains equal (1.0.0-preview > 2.0.0-preview) | |
| SignalR | ef45854f-b33f-49a3-8041-9057e915d88f | Configure private endpoints to Azure SignalR Service | Private endpoints connect your virtual network to Azure services without a public IP address at the source or destination. By mapping private endpoints to Azure SignalR Service resources, you can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more at https://aka.ms/asrs/privatelink. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor SignalR/Web PubSub Contributor |
2021-03-31 14:35:06
add: ef45854f-b33f-49a3-8041-9057e915d88f |
| Machine Learning | 53c70b02-63dd-11ea-bc55-0242ac130003 | [Preview]: Configure allowed module authors for specified Azure Machine Learning computes | Provide allowed module authors in specified Azure Machine Learning computes and can be assigned at the workspace. For more information, visit https://aka.ms/amlpolicydoc. | Default: enforceSetting Allowed: (enforceSetting, disabled) |
2021-03-31 14:35:06
change: Major, suffix remains equal (1.0.1-preview > 2.0.0-preview) | |
| Machine Learning | 5853517a-63de-11ea-bc55-0242ac130003 | [Preview]: Configure allowed registries for specified Azure Machine Learning computes | Provide registries that are allowed in specified Azure Machine Learning computes and can be assigned at the workspace. For more information, visit https://aka.ms/amlpolicydoc. | Default: enforceSetting Allowed: (enforceSetting, disabled) |
2021-03-31 14:35:06
change: Major, suffix remains equal (1.0.0-preview > 2.0.0-preview) | |
| Machine Learning | 6a6f7384-63de-11ea-bc55-0242ac130003 | [Preview]: Configure code signing for training code for specified Azure Machine Learning computes | Provide code signing for training code in specified Azure Machine Learning computes and can be assigned at the workspace. For more information, visit https://aka.ms/amlpolicydoc. | Default: enforceSetting Allowed: (enforceSetting, disabled) |
2021-03-31 14:35:06
change: Major, suffix remains equal (1.0.0-preview > 2.0.0-preview) | |
| SQL | f4c68484-132f-41f9-9b6d-3e4b1cb55036 | Configure SQL servers to have auditing enabled | To ensure the operations performed against your SQL assets are captured, SQL servers should have auditing enabled. This is sometimes required for compliance with regulatory standards. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | SQL Security Manager Storage Account Contributor |
2021-03-31 14:35:06
change: Minor (1.1.0 > 1.2.0) |
| Monitoring | 752154a7-1e0f-45c6-a880-ac75a7e4f648 | Public IP addresses should have resource logs enabled for Azure DDoS Protection Standard | Enable resource logs for public IP addressess in diagnostic settings to stream to a Log Analytics workspace. Get detailed visibility into attack traffic and actions taken to mitigate DDoS attacks via notifications, reports and flow logs. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-03-31 14:35:06
add: 752154a7-1e0f-45c6-a880-ac75a7e4f648 |
| Synapse | 529ea018-6afc-4ed4-95bd-7c9ee47b00bc | Synapse workspaces with SQL 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 Synapse workspace' SQL 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. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-03-24 14:32:48
change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) | |
| Machine Learning | 40cec1dd-a100-4920-b15b-3024fe8901ab | Azure Machine Learning workspaces 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 Azure Machine Learning workspaces, data leakage risks are reduced. Learn more about private links at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/machine-learning/how-to-configure-private-link. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-03-24 14:32:48
change: Minor (1.0.0 > 1.1.0) | |
| Storage | 970f84d8-71b6-4091-9979-ace7e3fb6dbb | HPC Cache accounts should use customer-managed key for encryption | Manage encryption at rest of Azure HPC Cache with customer-managed keys. By default, customer data is encrypted with service-managed keys, but customer-managed keys are commonly required to meet regulatory compliance standards. Customer-managed keys enable the data to be encrypted with an Azure Key Vault key created and owned by you. You have full control and responsibility for the key lifecycle, including rotation and management. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled, Deny) |
2021-03-24 14:32:48
change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) | |
| Compute | ac34a73f-9fa5-4067-9247-a3ecae514468 | Configure disaster recovery on virtual machines by enabling replication via Azure Site Recovery | Virtual machines without disaster recovery configurations are vulnerable to outages and other disruptions. If the virtual machine does not already have disaster recovery configured, this would initiate the same by enabling replication using preset configurations to facilitate business continuity. You can optionally include/exclude virtual machines containing a specified tag to control the scope of assignment. To learn more about disaster recovery, visit https://aka.ms/asr-doc. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Owner |
2021-03-24 14:32:48
change: Minor (1.1.0 > 1.2.0) |
| Cognitive Services | 46aa9b05-0e60-4eae-a88b-1e9d374fa515 | Cognitive Services accounts should use customer owned storage | Use customer owned storage to control the data stored at rest in Cognitive Services. To learn more about customer owned storage, visit https://aka.ms/cogsvc-cmk. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-03-24 14:32:48
change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) | |
| Storage | 6f8f98a4-f108-47cb-8e98-91a0d85cd474 | Configure diagnostic settings for storage accounts to Log Analytics workspace | Deploys the diagnostic settings for storage accounts to stream resource logs to a Log Analytics workspace when any storage account which is missing this diagnostic settings is created or updated. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Monitoring Contributor Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-03-24 14:32:48
change: Minor (1.1.0 > 1.3.0) |
| SQL | 89099bee-89e0-4b26-a5f4-165451757743 | 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. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Major (2.1.0 > 3.0.0) | |
| Kubernetes | 8dfab9c4-fe7b-49ad-85e4-1e9be085358f | [Preview]: Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes clusters should have Azure Defender's extension installed | Azure Defender's extension for Azure Arc provides threat protection for your Arc enabled Kubernetes clusters. The extension collects data from nodes in the cluster and sends it to the Azure Defender for Kubernetes backend in the cloud for further analysis. Learn more in https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/security-center/defender-for-kubernetes-azure-arc. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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add: 8dfab9c4-fe7b-49ad-85e4-1e9be085358f | |
| Machine Learning | 7838fd83-5cbb-4b5d-888c-bfa240972597 | Configure Azure Machine Learning workspaces with private endpoints | Private endpoints connect your virtual network to Azure services without a public IP address at the source or destination. By mapping private endpoints to your Azure Machine Learning workspace, you can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more about private links at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/machine-learning/how-to-configure-private-link. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor |
2021-03-16 16:49:20
add: 7838fd83-5cbb-4b5d-888c-bfa240972597 |
| Container Registry | a3701552-92ea-433e-9d17-33b7f1208fc9 | Configure Container registries to disable public network access | Disable public network access for your Container Registry resource so that it's not accessible over the public internet. This can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more at https://aka.ms/acr/portal/public-network and https://aka.ms/acr/private-link. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | Contributor |
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add: a3701552-92ea-433e-9d17-33b7f1208fc9 |
| Monitoring | 91cb9edd-cd92-4d2f-b2f2-bdd8d065a3d4 | Configure Dependency agent on Azure Arc enabled Windows servers | Enable VM insights on servers and machines connected to Azure through Arc enabled servers by installing the Dependency agent virtual machine extension. VM insights uses the Dependency agent to collect network metrics and discovered data about processes running on the machine and external process dependencies. See more - https://aka.ms/vminsightsdocs. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-03-16 16:49:20
change: Minor, old suffix: preview (1.1.0-preview > 1.2.0) |
| Machine Learning | 40cec1dd-a100-4920-b15b-3024fe8901ab | Azure Machine Learning workspaces 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 Azure Machine Learning workspaces, data leakage risks are reduced. Learn more about private links at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/machine-learning/how-to-configure-private-link. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-03-16 16:49:20
change: Patch (1.0.1 > 1.0.0) | |
| Migrate | 7590a335-57cf-4c95-babd-ecbc8fafeb1f | Configure Azure Migrate resources to use private DNS zones | Use private DNS zones to override the DNS resolution for a private endpoint. A private DNS zone links to your virtual network to resolve to your Azure Migrate project. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/privatednszone. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor |
2021-03-16 16:49:20
add: 7590a335-57cf-4c95-babd-ecbc8fafeb1f |
| Container Registry | 0fdf0491-d080-4575-b627-ad0e843cba0f | Public network access should be disabled for Container registries | Disabling public network access improves security by ensuring that container registries are not exposed on the public internet. Creating private endpoints can limit exposure of container registry resources. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/acr/portal/public-network and https://aka.ms/acr/private-link. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: 0fdf0491-d080-4575-b627-ad0e843cba0f | |
| Container Registry | d85c6833-7d33-4cf5-a915-aaa2de84405f | Configure Container registries with private endpoints | Private endpoints connect your virtual network to Azure services without a public IP address at the source or destination. By mapping private endpoints to your premium container registry resources, you can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/privateendpoints and https://aka.ms/acr/private-link. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Contributor |
2021-03-16 16:49:20
add: d85c6833-7d33-4cf5-a915-aaa2de84405f |
| Compute | ac34a73f-9fa5-4067-9247-a3ecae514468 | Configure disaster recovery on virtual machines by enabling replication via Azure Site Recovery | Virtual machines without disaster recovery configurations are vulnerable to outages and other disruptions. If the virtual machine does not already have disaster recovery configured, this would initiate the same by enabling replication using preset configurations to facilitate business continuity. You can optionally include/exclude virtual machines containing a specified tag to control the scope of assignment. To learn more about disaster recovery, visit https://aka.ms/asr-doc. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Owner |
2021-03-16 16:49:20
change: Minor (1.0.0 > 1.1.0) |
| Container Registry | bd560fc0-3c69-498a-ae9f-aa8eb7de0e13 | Container registries should have SKUs that support Private Links | 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 container registries instead of the entire service, data leakage risks are reduced. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/acr/private-link. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: bd560fc0-3c69-498a-ae9f-aa8eb7de0e13 | |
| Kubernetes | d46c275d-1680-448d-b2ec-e495a3b6cc89 | Kubernetes cluster services should only use allowed external IPs | Use allowed external IPs to avoid the potential attack (CVE-2020-8554) in a Kubernetes cluster. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-03-16 16:49:20
change: Major, old suffix: preview (2.0.0-preview > 3.0.0) | |
| Container Registry | e9585a95-5b8c-4d03-b193-dc7eb5ac4c32 | Configure Container registries to use private DNS zones | Use private DNS zones to override the DNS resolution for a private endpoint. A private DNS zone links to your virtual network to resolve to your Container Registry. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/privatednszone and https://aka.ms/acr/private-link. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor |
2021-03-16 16:49:20
add: e9585a95-5b8c-4d03-b193-dc7eb5ac4c32 |
| Container Registry | d0793b48-0edc-4296-a390-4c75d1bdfd71 | Container registries should not allow unrestricted network access | Azure container registries by default accept connections over the internet from hosts on any network. To protect your registries from potential threats, allow access from only specific public IP addresses or address ranges. If your registry doesn't have an IP/firewall rule or a configured virtual network, it will appear in the unhealthy resources. Learn more about Container Registry network rules here: https://aka.ms/acr/portal/public-network and here https://aka.ms/acr/vnet. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-03-16 16:49:20
change: Minor (1.0.1 > 1.1.0) | |
| Machine Learning | ee40564d-486e-4f68-a5ca-7a621edae0fb | Configure Azure Machine Learning workspace to use private DNS zones | Use private DNS zones to override the DNS resolution for a private endpoint. A private DNS zone links to your virtual network to resolve to Azure Machine Learning workspaces. Learn more at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/machine-learning/how-to-network-security-overview. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor |
2021-03-16 16:49:20
add: ee40564d-486e-4f68-a5ca-7a621edae0fb |
| Security Center | 13ce0167-8ca6-4048-8e6b-f996402e3c1b | [Preview]: Configure machines to receive a vulnerability assessment provider | Azure Defender includes vulnerability scanning for your machines at no extra cost. You don't need a Qualys license or even a Qualys account - everything's handled seamlessly inside Security Center. When you enable this policy, Azure Defender automatically deploys the Qualys vulnerability assessment provider to all supported machines that don't already have it installed. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Security Admin |
2021-03-10 14:52:46
change: Major, suffix remains equal (1.0.0-preview > 2.0.0-preview) |
| Internet of Things | aaa64d2d-2fa3-45e5-b332-0b031b9b30e8 | Configure IoT Hub device provisioning instances to use private DNS zones | Use private DNS zones to override the DNS resolution for a private endpoint. A private DNS zone links to your virtual network to resolve to an IoT Hub device provisioning service instance. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/iotdpsvnet. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Contributor |
2021-03-09 14:37:41
add: aaa64d2d-2fa3-45e5-b332-0b031b9b30e8 |
| API Management | 73ef9241-5d81-4cd4-b483-8443d1730fe5 | API Management service should use a SKU that supports virtual networks | With supported SKUs of API Management, deploying service into a virtual network unlocks advanced API Management networking and security features which provides you greater control over your network security configuration. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/apimvnet. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-03-09 14:37:41
add: 73ef9241-5d81-4cd4-b483-8443d1730fe5 | |
| Search | ee980b6d-0eca-4501-8d54-f6290fd512c3 | Azure Cognitive Search services should disable public network access | Disabling public network access improves security by ensuring that your Azure Cognitive Search service is not exposed on the public internet. Creating private endpoints can limit exposure of your Search service. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/azure-cognitive-search/inbound-private-endpoints. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-03-09 14:37:41
add: ee980b6d-0eca-4501-8d54-f6290fd512c3 | |
| Synapse | ac7891a4-ac7a-4ba0-9ae9-c923e5a225ee | Configure Synapse workspaces to have auditing enabled | To ensure the operations performed against your SQL assets are captured, Synapse workspaces should have auditing enabled. This is sometimes required for compliance with regulatory standards. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | SQL Security Manager Storage Account Contributor |
2021-03-09 14:37:41
add: ac7891a4-ac7a-4ba0-9ae9-c923e5a225ee |
| Backup | deeddb44-9f94-4903-9fa0-081d524406e3 | [Preview]: Azure Recovery Services vaults should use private link for backup | 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 Azure Recovery Services vaults, data leakage risks are reduced. Learn more about private links at: https://aka.ms/AB-PrivateEndpoints. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
2021-03-09 14:37:41
add: deeddb44-9f94-4903-9fa0-081d524406e3 | |
| SignalR | 62a3ae95-8169-403e-a2d2-b82141448092 | Modify Azure SignalR Service resources to disable public network access | To improve the security of Azure SignalR Service resource, ensure that it isn't exposed to the public internet and can only be accessed from a private endpoint. Disable the public network access property as described in https://aka.ms/asrs/networkacls. This option disables access from any public address space outside the Azure IP range, and denies all logins that match IP or virtual network-based firewall rules. This reduces data leakage risks. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | SignalR/Web PubSub Contributor |
2021-03-09 14:37:41
add: 62a3ae95-8169-403e-a2d2-b82141448092 |
| Event Hub | b8564268-eb4a-4337-89be-a19db070c59d | Event Hub namespaces 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 Event Hub namespaces, data leakage risks are reduced. Learn more at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/event-hubs/private-link-service. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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add: b8564268-eb4a-4337-89be-a19db070c59d | |
| Service Bus | 7d890f7f-100c-473d-baa1-2777e2266535 | Configure Service Bus namespaces with private endpoints | Private endpoints connect your virtual network to Azure services without a public IP address at the source or destination. By mapping private endpoints to Service Bus namespaces, you can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/service-bus-messaging/private-link-service. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor Azure Service Bus Data Owner |
2021-03-09 14:37:41
add: 7d890f7f-100c-473d-baa1-2777e2266535 |
| Data Factory | 0088bc63-6dee-4a9c-9d29-91cfdc848952 | SQL Server Integration Services integration runtimes on Azure Data Factory should be joined to a virtual network | Azure Virtual Network deployment provides enhanced security and isolation for your SQL Server Integration Services integration runtimes on Azure Data Factory, as well as subnets, access control policies, and other features to further restrict access. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-03-09 14:37:41
add: 0088bc63-6dee-4a9c-9d29-91cfdc848952 | |
| SignalR | 464a1620-21b5-448d-8ce6-d4ac6d1bc49a | Azure SignalR Service should use a Private Link enabled SKU | Azure Private Link lets you connect your virtual network to Azure services without a public IP address at the source or destination which protect your resources against public data leakage risks. The policy limits you to Private Link enabled SKUs for Azure SignalR Service. Learn more about private link at: https://aka.ms/asrs/privatelink. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-03-09 14:37:41
add: 464a1620-21b5-448d-8ce6-d4ac6d1bc49a | |
| Security Center | 13ce0167-8ca6-4048-8e6b-f996402e3c1b | [Preview]: Configure machines to receive a vulnerability assessment provider | Azure Defender includes vulnerability scanning for your machines at no extra cost. You don't need a Qualys license or even a Qualys account - everything's handled seamlessly inside Security Center. When you enable this policy, Azure Defender automatically deploys the Qualys vulnerability assessment provider to all supported machines that don't already have it installed. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Security Admin |
2021-03-09 14:37:41
add: 13ce0167-8ca6-4048-8e6b-f996402e3c1b |
| Automation | 6dd01e4f-1be1-4e80-9d0b-d109e04cb064 | Configure Azure Automation accounts with private DNS zones | Use private DNS zones to override the DNS resolution for a private endpoint. You need private DNS zone properly configured to connect to Azure Automation account via Azure Private Link. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/privatednszone. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor |
2021-03-09 14:37:41
add: 6dd01e4f-1be1-4e80-9d0b-d109e04cb064 |
| Automation | c0c3130e-7dda-4187-aed0-ee4a472eaa60 | Configure private endpoint connections on Azure Automation accounts | Private endpoint connections allow secure communication by enabling private connectivity to Azure Automation accounts without a need for public IP addresses at the source or destination. Learn more about private endpoints in Azure Automation at https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/automation/how-to/private-link-security. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor Contributor |
2021-03-09 14:37:41
add: c0c3130e-7dda-4187-aed0-ee4a472eaa60 |
| Synapse | 529ea018-6afc-4ed4-95bd-7c9ee47b00bc | Synapse workspaces with SQL 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 Synapse workspace' SQL 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. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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add: 529ea018-6afc-4ed4-95bd-7c9ee47b00bc | |
| Internet of Things | 9b75ea5b-c796-4c99-aaaf-21c204daac43 | Configure IoT Hub device provisioning service instances with private endpoints | Private endpoints connect your virtual network to Azure services without a public IP address at the source or destination. By mapping private endpoints to IoT Hub device provisioning service, you can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more about private links at: https://aka.ms/iotdpsvnet. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Contributor |
2021-03-09 14:37:41
add: 9b75ea5b-c796-4c99-aaaf-21c204daac43 |
| Search | 9cee519f-d9c1-4fd9-9f79-24ec3449ed30 | Configure Azure Cognitive Search services to disable public network access | Disable public network access for your Azure Cognitive Search service so that it is not accessible over the public internet. This can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/azure-cognitive-search/inbound-private-endpoints. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | Network Contributor Search Service Contributor |
2021-03-09 14:37:41
add: 9cee519f-d9c1-4fd9-9f79-24ec3449ed30 |
| Network | 27960feb-a23c-4577-8d36-ef8b5f35e0be | Flow logs should be enabled for every network security group | Audit for flow log resources to verify if flow log status is enabled. Enabling flow logs allows to log information about IP traffic flowing through network security group. It can be used for optimizing network flows, monitoring throughput, verifying compliance, detecting intrusions and more. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
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add: 27960feb-a23c-4577-8d36-ef8b5f35e0be | |
| SignalR | 21a9766a-82a5-4747-abb5-650b6dbba6d0 | Azure SignalR Service should disable public network access | To improve the security of Azure SignalR Service resource, ensure that it isn't exposed to the public internet and can only be accessed from a private endpoint. Disable the public network access property as described in https://aka.ms/asrs/networkacls. This option disables access from any public address space outside the Azure IP range, and denies all logins that match IP or virtual network-based firewall rules. This reduces data leakage risks. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: 21a9766a-82a5-4747-abb5-650b6dbba6d0 | |
| Synapse | e04e5000-cd89-451d-bb21-a14d24ff9c73 | Auditing on Synapse workspace should be enabled | Auditing on your Synapse workspace should be enabled to track database activities across all databases on the dedicated SQL pools and save them in an audit log. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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add: e04e5000-cd89-451d-bb21-a14d24ff9c73 | |
| Kubernetes | 040732e8-d947-40b8-95d6-854c95024bf8 | Azure Kubernetes Service Private Clusters should be enabled | Enable the private cluster feature for your Azure Kubernetes Service cluster to ensure network traffic between your API server and your node pools remains on the private network only. This is a common requirement in many regulatory and industry compliance standards. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: 040732e8-d947-40b8-95d6-854c95024bf8 | |
| Logic Apps | dc595cb1-1cde-45f6-8faf-f88874e1c0e1 | Logic Apps should be deployed into Integration Service Environment | Deploying Logic Apps into Integration Service Environment in a virtual network unlocks advanced Logic Apps networking and security features and provides you with greater control over your network configuration. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/integration-service-environment. Deploying into Integration Service Environment also allows encryption with customer-managed keys which provides enhanced data protection by allowing you to manage your encryption keys. This is often to meet compliance requirements. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-03-09 14:37:41
add: dc595cb1-1cde-45f6-8faf-f88874e1c0e1 | |
| Synapse | 1e5ed725-f16c-478b-bd4b-7bfa2f7940b9 | Configure Azure Synapse workspaces to use private DNS zones | Use private DNS zones to override the DNS resolution for a private endpoint. A private DNS zone links to your virtual network to resolve to Azure Synapse workspace. Learn more at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics/security/how-to-connect-to-workspace-from-restricted-network#appendix-dns-registration-for-private-endpoint. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor |
2021-03-09 14:37:41
add: 1e5ed725-f16c-478b-bd4b-7bfa2f7940b9 |
| Synapse | 72d11df1-dd8a-41f7-8925-b05b960ebafc | Azure Synapse workspaces 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 Azure Synapse workspace, data leakage risks are reduced. Learn more about private links at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics/security/how-to-connect-to-workspace-with-private-links. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
2021-03-09 14:37:41
change: Patch (1.0.0 > 1.0.1) | |
| Cognitive Services | fe3fd216-4f83-4fc1-8984-2bbec80a3418 | Cognitive Services accounts should use a managed identity | Assigning a managed identity to your Cognitive Service account helps ensure secure authentication. This identity is used by this Cognitive service account to communicate with other Azure services, like Azure Key Vault, in a secure way without you having to manage any credentials. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: fe3fd216-4f83-4fc1-8984-2bbec80a3418 | |
| Kubernetes | 440b515e-a580-421e-abeb-b159a61ddcbc | [Deprecated]: Kubernetes cluster containers should only listen on allowed ports | Restrict containers to listen only on allowed ports to secure access to the Kubernetes cluster. The policy is deprecating since container port is only informative field which cannot decide the port container is actually using. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-03-09 14:37:41
change: Minor (6.0.0 > 6.1.0) | |
| Storage | 7433c107-6db4-4ad1-b57a-a76dce0154a1 | Storage accounts should be limited by allowed SKUs | Restrict the set of storage account SKUs that your organization can deploy. | Default: Deny Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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change: Minor (1.0.0 > 1.1.0) | |
| Cosmos DB | da69ba51-aaf1-41e5-8651-607cd0b37088 | Configure CosmosDB accounts to disable public network access | Disable public network access for your CosmosDB resource so that it's not accessible over the public internet. This can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db/how-to-configure-private-endpoints#blocking-public-network-access-during-account-creation. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | Contributor DocumentDB Account Contributor |
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add: da69ba51-aaf1-41e5-8651-607cd0b37088 |
| Storage | 6edd7eda-6dd8-40f7-810d-67160c639cd9 | 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 | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) | |
| Compute | 702dd420-7fcc-42c5-afe8-4026edd20fe0 | OS and data disks should be encrypted with a customer-managed key | Use customer-managed keys to manage the encryption at rest of the contents of your managed disks. By default, the data is encrypted at rest with platform-managed keys, but customer-managed keys are commonly required to meet regulatory compliance standards. Customer-managed keys enable the data to be encrypted with an Azure Key Vault key created and owned by you. You have full control and responsibility for the key lifecycle, including rotation and management. Learn more at https://aka.ms/disks-cmk. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) | |
| Security Center | 86b3d65f-7626-441e-b690-81a8b71cff60 | System updates should be installed on your machines | Missing security system updates on your servers will be monitored by Azure Security Center as recommendations | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Major (3.0.0 > 4.0.0) | |
| Synapse | 2b18f286-371e-4b80-9887-04759970c0d3 | Synapse workspace auditing settings should have action groups configured to capture critical activities | To ensure your audit logs are as thorough as possible, the AuditActionsAndGroups property should include all the relevant groups. We recommend adding at least SUCCESSFUL_DATABASE_AUTHENTICATION_GROUP, FAILED_DATABASE_AUTHENTICATION_GROUP, and BATCH_COMPLETED_GROUP. This is sometimes required for compliance with regulatory standards. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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add: 2b18f286-371e-4b80-9887-04759970c0d3 | |
| Internet of Things | 859dfc91-ea35-43a6-8256-31271c363794 | Configure IoT Hub device provisioning service instances to disable public network access | Disable public network access for your IoT Hub device provisioning instance so that it's not accessible over the public internet. This can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/iotdpsvnet. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | Contributor |
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add: 859dfc91-ea35-43a6-8256-31271c363794 |
| Cache | 30b3dfa5-a70d-4c8e-bed6-0083858f663d | Configure Azure Cache for Redis to disable public network access | Disable public network access for your Azure Cache for Redis resource so that it's not accessible over the public internet. This helps protect the cache against data leakage risks. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | Redis Cache Contributor |
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add: 30b3dfa5-a70d-4c8e-bed6-0083858f663d |
| Cache | 470baccb-7e51-4549-8b1a-3e5be069f663 | Azure Cache for Redis should disable public network access | Disabling public network access improves security by ensuring that the Azure Cache for Redis isn't exposed on the public internet. You can limit exposure of your Azure Cache for Redis by creating private endpoints instead. Learn more at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-cache-for-redis/cache-private-link. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: 470baccb-7e51-4549-8b1a-3e5be069f663 | |
| Internet of Things | 2d7e144b-159c-44fc-95c1-ac3dbf5e6e54 | [Preview]: Azure IoT Hub should use customer-managed key to encrypt data at rest | Encryption of data at rest in IoT Hub with customer-managed key adds a second layer of encryption on top of the default service-managed keys, enables customer control of keys, custom rotation policies, and ability to manage access to data through key access control. Customer-managed keys must be configured during creation of IoT Hub. For more information on how to configure customer-managed keys, see https://aka.ms/iotcmk. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: 2d7e144b-159c-44fc-95c1-ac3dbf5e6e54 | |
| Cognitive Services | 47ba1dd7-28d9-4b07-a8d5-9813bed64e0c | Configure Cognitive Services accounts to disable public network access | Disable public network access for your Cognitive Services resource so that it's not accessible over the public internet. This can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more at: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2129800. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Disabled, Modify) | Contributor |
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add: 47ba1dd7-28d9-4b07-a8d5-9813bed64e0c |
| Event Hub | ed66d4f5-8220-45dc-ab4a-20d1749c74e6 | Configure Event Hub namespaces to use private DNS zones | Use private DNS zones to override the DNS resolution for a private endpoint. A private DNS zone links to your virtual network to resolve to Event Hub namespaces. Learn more at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/event-hubs/private-link-service. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor |
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add: ed66d4f5-8220-45dc-ab4a-20d1749c74e6 |
| Cosmos DB | b609e813-3156-4079-91fa-a8494c1471c4 | Configure CosmosDB accounts with private endpoints | Private endpoints connect your virtual network to Azure services without a public IP address at the source or destination. By mapping private endpoints to your CosmosDB account, you can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more about private links at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db/how-to-configure-private-endpoints. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Contributor DocumentDB Account Contributor |
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add: b609e813-3156-4079-91fa-a8494c1471c4 |
| SQL | 89099bee-89e0-4b26-a5f4-165451757743 | 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. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Minor (2.0.1 > 2.1.0) | |
| Logic Apps | 1fafeaf6-7927-4059-a50a-8eb2a7a6f2b5 | Logic Apps Integration Service Environment should be encrypted with customer-managed keys | Deploy into Integration Service Environment to manage encryption at rest of Logic Apps data using customer-managed keys. By default, customer data is encrypted with service-managed keys, but customer-managed keys are commonly required to meet regulatory compliance standards. Customer-managed keys enable the data to be encrypted with an Azure Key Vault key created and owned by you. You have full control and responsibility for the key lifecycle, including rotation and management. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: 1fafeaf6-7927-4059-a50a-8eb2a7a6f2b5 | |
| Compute | d461a302-a187-421a-89ac-84acdb4edc04 | Managed disks should use a specific set of disk encryption sets for the customer-managed key encryption | Requiring a specific set of disk encryption sets to be used with managed disks give you control over the keys used for encryption at rest. You are able to select the allowed encrypted sets and all others are rejected when attached to a disk. Learn more at https://aka.ms/disks-cmk. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) | |
| Internet of Things | df39c015-56a4-45de-b4a3-efe77bed320d | IoT Hub device provisioning service instances 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 the IoT Hub device provisioning service, data leakage risks are reduced. Learn more about private links at: https://aka.ms/iotdpsvnet. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
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add: df39c015-56a4-45de-b4a3-efe77bed320d | |
| Security Center | bdc59948-5574-49b3-bb91-76b7c986428d | Azure Defender for DNS should be enabled | Azure Defender for DNS provides an additional layer of protection for your cloud resources by continuously monitoring all DNS queries from your Azure resources. Azure Defender alerts you about suspicious activity at the DNS layer. Learn more about the capabilities of Azure Defender for DNS at https://aka.ms/defender-for-dns . Enabling this Azure Defender plan results in charges. Learn about the pricing details per region on Security Center's pricing page: https://aka.ms/pricing-security-center . | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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add: bdc59948-5574-49b3-bb91-76b7c986428d | |
| Search | fbc14a67-53e4-4932-abcc-2049c6706009 | Configure Azure Cognitive Search services to use private DNS zones | Use private DNS zones to override the DNS resolution for a private endpoint. A private DNS zone links to your virtual network to resolve to your Azure Cognitive Search service. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/azure-cognitive-search/inbound-private-endpoints. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor |
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add: fbc14a67-53e4-4932-abcc-2049c6706009 |
| Service Bus | 1c06e275-d63d-4540-b761-71f364c2111d | Azure Service Bus namespaces 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 Service Bus namespaces, data leakage risks are reduced. Learn more at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/service-bus-messaging/private-link-service. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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add: 1c06e275-d63d-4540-b761-71f364c2111d | |
| Cache | 7803067c-7d34-46e3-8c79-0ca68fc4036d | Azure Cache for Redis should use private link | Private endpoints lets you connect your virtual network to Azure services without a public IP address at the source or destination. By mapping private endpoints to your Azure Cache for Redis instances, data leakage risks are reduced. Learn more at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-cache-for-redis/cache-private-link. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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add: 7803067c-7d34-46e3-8c79-0ca68fc4036d | |
| Event Hub | 91678b7c-d721-4fc5-b179-3cdf74e96b1c | Configure Event Hub namespaces with private endpoints | Private endpoints connect your virtual network to Azure services without a public IP address at the source or destination. By mapping private endpoints to Event Hub namespaces, you can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/event-hubs/private-link-service. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor Azure Event Hubs Data Owner |
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add: 91678b7c-d721-4fc5-b179-3cdf74e96b1c |
| Storage | 9f766f00-8d11-464e-80e1-4091d7874074 | Configure Storage account to use a private link connection | Private endpoints connect your virtual network to Azure services without a public IP address at the source or destination. By mapping private endpoints to your storage account, you can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more about private links at - https://aka.ms/azureprivatelinkoverview | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor Storage Account Contributor |
2021-03-09 14:37:41
add: 9f766f00-8d11-464e-80e1-4091d7874074 |
| Container Instance | 8af8f826-edcb-4178-b35f-851ea6fea615 | Azure Container Instance container group should deploy into a virtual network | Secure communication between your containers with Azure Virtual Networks. When you specify a virtual network, resources within the virtual network can securely and privately communicate with each other. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled, Deny) |
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add: 8af8f826-edcb-4178-b35f-851ea6fea615 | |
| Automation | 955a914f-bf86-4f0e-acd5-e0766b0efcb6 | Automation accounts should disable public network access | Disabling public network access improves security by ensuring that the resource isn't exposed on the public internet. You can limit exposure of your Automation account resources by creating private endpoints instead. Learn more at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/automation/how-to/private-link-security. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: 955a914f-bf86-4f0e-acd5-e0766b0efcb6 | |
| Kubernetes | a6f560f4-f582-4b67-b123-a37dcd1bf7ea | Configure Kubernetes clusters with specified GitOps configuration using HTTPS secrets | Deploy a 'sourceControlConfiguration' to Kubernetes clusters to assure that the clusters get their source of truth for workloads and configurations from the defined git repo. This definition requires HTTPS user and key secrets stored in Key Vault. For instructions, visit https://aka.ms/K8sGitOpsPolicy. | Default: deployIfNotExists Allowed: (deployIfNotExists, auditIfNotExists, disabled) | Contributor |
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add: a6f560f4-f582-4b67-b123-a37dcd1bf7ea |
| Cache | e016b22b-e0eb-436d-8fd7-160c4eaed6e2 | Configure Azure Cache for Redis to use private DNS zones | Use private DNS zones to override the DNS resolution for a private endpoint. A private DNS zone can be linked to your virtual network to resolve to Azure Cache for Redis. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/privatednszone. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor |
2021-03-09 14:37:41
add: e016b22b-e0eb-436d-8fd7-160c4eaed6e2 |
| Search | a049bf77-880b-470f-ba6d-9f21c530cf83 | Azure Cognitive Search service should use a SKU that supports private link | With supported SKUs of Azure Cognitive Search, 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 Search service, data leakage risks are reduced. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/azure-cognitive-search/inbound-private-endpoints. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: a049bf77-880b-470f-ba6d-9f21c530cf83 | |
| SignalR | b0e86710-7fb7-4a6c-a064-32e9b829509e | Deploy - Configure private DNS zones for private endpoints connect to Azure SignalR Service | Use private DNS zones to override the DNS resolution for a private endpoint. A private DNS zone links to your virtual network to resolve to Azure SignalR Service resource. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/asrs/privatelink. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor |
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add: b0e86710-7fb7-4a6c-a064-32e9b829509e |
| Container Instance | 0aa61e00-0a01-4a3c-9945-e93cffedf0e6 | Azure Container Instance container group should use customer-managed key for encryption | Secure your containers 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. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled, Deny) |
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add: 0aa61e00-0a01-4a3c-9945-e93cffedf0e6 | |
| Storage | 6f8f98a4-f108-47cb-8e98-91a0d85cd474 | Configure diagnostic settings for storage accounts to Log Analytics workspace | Deploys the diagnostic settings for storage accounts to stream resource logs to a Log Analytics workspace when any storage account which is missing this diagnostic settings is created or updated. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Monitoring Contributor Log Analytics Contributor |
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change: Minor (1.0.0 > 1.1.0) |
| Cosmos DB | 58440f8a-10c5-4151-bdce-dfbaad4a20b7 | CosmosDB 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 CosmosDB account, data leakage risks are reduced. Learn more about private links at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db/how-to-configure-private-endpoints. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
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add: 58440f8a-10c5-4151-bdce-dfbaad4a20b7 | |
| Network | c251913d-7d24-4958-af87-478ed3b9ba41 | Flow logs should be configured for every network security group | Audit for network security groups to verify if flow logs are configured. Enabling flow logs allows to log information about IP traffic flowing through network security group. It can be used for optimizing network flows, monitoring throughput, verifying compliance, detecting intrusions and more. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
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change: Minor (1.0.0 > 1.1.0) | |
| SQL | f4c68484-132f-41f9-9b6d-3e4b1cb55036 | Configure SQL servers to have auditing enabled | To ensure the operations performed against your SQL assets are captured, SQL servers should have auditing enabled. This is sometimes required for compliance with regulatory standards. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | SQL Security Manager Storage Account Contributor |
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change: Minor (1.0.0 > 1.1.0) |
| Kubernetes | c050047b-b21b-4822-8a2d-c1e37c3c0c6a | Configure Kubernetes clusters with specified GitOps configuration using SSH secrets | Deploy a 'sourceControlConfiguration' to Kubernetes clusters to assure that the clusters get their source of truth for workloads and configurations from the defined git repo. This definition requires a SSH private key secret in Key Vault. For instructions, visit https://aka.ms/K8sGitOpsPolicy. | Default: deployIfNotExists Allowed: (deployIfNotExists, auditIfNotExists, disabled) | Contributor |
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add: c050047b-b21b-4822-8a2d-c1e37c3c0c6a |
| Kubernetes | 1d61c4d2-aef2-432b-87fc-7f96b019b7e1 | Configure Kubernetes clusters with specified GitOps configuration using no secrets | Deploy a 'sourceControlConfiguration' to Kubernetes clusters to assure that the clusters get their source of truth for workloads and configurations from the defined git repo. This definition requires no secrets. For instructions, visit https://aka.ms/K8sGitOpsPolicy. | Default: deployIfNotExists Allowed: (deployIfNotExists, auditIfNotExists, disabled) | Contributor |
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change: Version remains equal, old suffix: preview (1.0.0-preview > 1.0.0) |
| Cognitive Services | 0725b4dd-7e76-479c-a735-68e7ee23d5ca | Cognitive Services accounts should disable public network access | Disabling public network access improves security by ensuring that Cognitive Services account isn't exposed on the public internet. Creating private endpoints can limit exposure of Cognitive Services account. Learn more at: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2129800. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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change: Patch (1.0.0 > 1.0.1) | |
| Cosmos DB | 797b37f7-06b8-444c-b1ad-fc62867f335a | Azure Cosmos DB should disable public network access | Disabling public network access improves security by ensuring that your CosmosDB account isn't exposed on the public internet. Creating private endpoints can limit exposure of your CosmosDB account. Learn more at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db/how-to-configure-private-endpoints#blocking-public-network-access-during-account-creation. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: 797b37f7-06b8-444c-b1ad-fc62867f335a | |
| Storage | 970f84d8-71b6-4091-9979-ace7e3fb6dbb | HPC Cache accounts should use customer-managed key for encryption | Manage encryption at rest of Azure HPC Cache with customer-managed keys. By default, customer data is encrypted with service-managed keys, but customer-managed keys are commonly required to meet regulatory compliance standards. Customer-managed keys enable the data to be encrypted with an Azure Key Vault key created and owned by you. You have full control and responsibility for the key lifecycle, including rotation and management. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled, Deny) |
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add: 970f84d8-71b6-4091-9979-ace7e3fb6dbb | |
| Security Center | c3d20c29-b36d-48fe-808b-99a87530ad99 | Azure Defender for Resource Manager should be enabled | Azure Defender for Resource Manager automatically monitors the resource management operations in your organization. Azure Defender detects threats and alerts you about suspicious activity. Learn more about the capabilities of Azure Defender for Resource Manager at https://aka.ms/defender-for-resource-manager . Enabling this Azure Defender plan results in charges. Learn about the pricing details per region on Security Center's pricing page: https://aka.ms/pricing-security-center . | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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add: c3d20c29-b36d-48fe-808b-99a87530ad99 | |
| Cosmos DB | a63cc0bd-cda4-4178-b705-37dc439d3e0f | Configure CosmosDB accounts to use private DNS zones | Use private DNS zones to override the DNS resolution for a private endpoint. A private DNS zone links to your virtual network to resolve to CosmosDB account. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/privatednszone. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor |
2021-03-09 14:37:41
add: a63cc0bd-cda4-4178-b705-37dc439d3e0f |
| Synapse | 3b3b0c27-08d2-4b32-879d-19930bee3266 | Configure Azure Synapse workspaces with private endpoints | Private endpoints connect your virtual network to Azure services without a public IP address at the source or destination. By mapping private endpoints to Azure Synapse workspaces, you can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more about private links at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics/security/how-to-connect-to-workspace-with-private-links. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Contributor |
2021-03-09 14:37:41
add: 3b3b0c27-08d2-4b32-879d-19930bee3266 |
| Cognitive Services | 67121cc7-ff39-4ab8-b7e3-95b84dab487d | Cognitive Services accounts should enable data encryption with a customer-managed key | Customer-managed keys are commonly required to meet regulatory compliance standards. Customer-managed keys enable the data stored in Cognitive Services to be encrypted with an Azure Key Vault key created and owned by you. You have full control and responsibility for the key lifecycle, including rotation and management. Learn more about customer-managed keys at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2121321. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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change: Major (1.0.3 > 2.0.0) | |
| Kubernetes | 233a2a17-77ca-4fb1-9b6b-69223d272a44 | 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 AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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change: Minor (6.0.0 > 6.1.0) | |
| Internet of Things | d82101f3-f3ce-4fc5-8708-4c09f4009546 | IoT Hub device provisioning service instances should disable public network access | Disabling public network access improves security by ensuring that IoT Hub device provisioning service instance isn't exposed on the public internet. Creating private endpoints can limit exposure of the IoT Hub device provisioning instances. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/iotdpsvnet. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: d82101f3-f3ce-4fc5-8708-4c09f4009546 | |
| Service Bus | f0fcf93c-c063-4071-9668-c47474bd3564 | Configure Service Bus namespaces to use private DNS zones | Use private DNS zones to override the DNS resolution for a private endpoint. A private DNS zone links to your virtual network to resolve to Service Bus namespaces. Learn more at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/service-bus-messaging/private-link-service. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor |
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add: f0fcf93c-c063-4071-9668-c47474bd3564 |
| Kubernetes | febd0533-8e55-448f-b837-bd0e06f16469 | 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. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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change: Minor (6.0.0 > 6.1.0) | |
| Internet of Things | 0d40b058-9f95-4a19-93e3-9b0330baa2a3 | Private endpoint should be enabled for IoT Hub | Private endpoint connections enforce secure communication by enabling private connectivity to IoT Hub. Configure a private endpoint connection to enable access to traffic coming only from known networks and prevent access from all other IP addresses, including within Azure. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
2021-03-02 15:11:40
add: 0d40b058-9f95-4a19-93e3-9b0330baa2a3 | |
| Kubernetes | 511f5417-5d12-434d-ab2e-816901e72a5e | Kubernetes cluster containers should only use allowed AppArmor profiles | Containers should only use allowed AppArmor profiles in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-03-02 15:11:40
change: Major (2.0.1 > 3.0.0) | |
| App Service | dcbc65aa-59f3-4239-8978-3bb869d82604 | Web apps should use an Azure file share for its content directory | The content directory of a web app should be located on an Azure file share. The storage account information for the file share must be provided before any publishing activity. To learn more about using Azure Files for hosting app service content refer to https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2151594. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
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add: dcbc65aa-59f3-4239-8978-3bb869d82604 | |
| Synapse | 3484ce98-c0c5-4c83-994b-c5ac24785218 | Azure Synapse workspaces should allow outbound data traffic only to approved targets | Increase security of your Synapse workspace by allowing outbound data traffic only to approved targets. This helps prevention against data exfiltration by validating the target before sending data. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled, Deny) |
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add: 3484ce98-c0c5-4c83-994b-c5ac24785218 | |
| Kubernetes | 16697877-1118-4fb1-9b65-9898ec2509ec | Kubernetes cluster pods should only use allowed volume types | Pods can only use allowed volume types in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-03-02 15:11:40
change: Major (2.0.1 > 3.0.0) | |
| Kubernetes | febd0533-8e55-448f-b837-bd0e06f16469 | 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. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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change: Major (5.0.1 > 6.0.0) | |
| App Service | 74c3584d-afae-46f7-a20a-6f8adba71a16 | Ensure that 'Python version' is the latest, if used as a part of the API app | Periodically, newer versions are released for Python software either due to security flaws or to include additional functionality. Using the latest Python version for API apps is recommended in order to take advantage of security fixes, if any, and/or new functionalities of the latest version. Currently, this policy only applies to Linux web apps. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Major (2.0.0 > 3.0.0) | |
| Automation | 23b36a7c-9d26-4288-a8fd-c1d2fa284d8c | Configure Azure Automation accounts to disable public network access | Disable public network access for Azure Automation account so that it isn't accessible over the public internet. This configuration helps protect them against data leakage risks. You can limit exposure of the your Automation account resources by creating private endpoints instead. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/privateendpoints. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | Contributor |
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add: 23b36a7c-9d26-4288-a8fd-c1d2fa284d8c |
| Kubernetes | df49d893-a74c-421d-bc95-c663042e5b80 | 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 AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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change: Major (2.0.1 > 3.0.0) | |
| Internet of Things | c99ce9c1-ced7-4c3e-aca0-10e69ce0cb02 | Deploy - Configure Azure IoT Hubs to use private DNS zones | Azure Private DNS provides a reliable, secure DNS service to manage and resolve domain names in a virtual network without the need to add a custom DNS solution. You can use private DNS zones to override the DNS resolution by using your own custom domain names for a private endpoint. This policy deploys a private DNS Zone for IoT Hub private endpoints. | Default: deployIfNotExists Allowed: (deployIfNotExists, disabled) | Network Contributor Contributor |
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add: c99ce9c1-ced7-4c3e-aca0-10e69ce0cb02 |
| Kubernetes | 1c6e92c9-99f0-4e55-9cf2-0c234dc48f99 | Kubernetes clusters should not allow container privilege escalation | Do not allow containers to run with privilege escalation to root in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of CIS 5.2.5 which is intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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change: Major (2.0.1 > 3.0.0) | |
| Storage | 0e07b2e9-6cd9-4c40-9ccb-52817b95133b | Modify - Configure Azure File Sync to disable public network access | The Azure File Sync's internet-accessible public endpoint are disabled by your organizational policy. You may still access the Storage Sync Service via its private endpoint(s). | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | Contributor |
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add: 0e07b2e9-6cd9-4c40-9ccb-52817b95133b |
| Storage | 06695360-db88-47f6-b976-7500d4297475 | Configure Azure File Sync to use private DNS zones | To access the private endpoint(s) for Storage Sync Service resource interfaces from a registered server, you need to configure your DNS to resolve the correct names to your private endpoint's private IP addresses. This policy creates the requisite Azure Private DNS Zone and A records for the interfaces of your Storage Sync Service private endpoint(s). | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Private DNS Zone Contributor Network Contributor |
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add: 06695360-db88-47f6-b976-7500d4297475 |
| Monitoring | 32133ab0-ee4b-4b44-98d6-042180979d50 | [Preview]: Log Analytics Extension should be enabled for listed virtual machine images | Reports virtual machines as non-compliant if the virtual machine image is not in the list defined and the extension is not installed. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Major, suffix remains equal (1.0.0-preview > 2.0.0-preview) | |
| Kubernetes | 975ce327-682c-4f2e-aa46-b9598289b86c | Kubernetes cluster containers should only use allowed seccomp profiles | Pod containers can only use allowed seccomp profiles in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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change: Major (2.0.1 > 3.0.0) | |
| Kubernetes | 46592696-4c7b-4bf3-9e45-6c2763bdc0a6 | Kubernetes cluster pods should use specified labels | Use specified labels to identify the pods in a Kubernetes cluster. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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change: Major (5.0.1 > 6.0.0) | |
| Internet of Things | 2d6830fb-07eb-48e7-8c4d-2a442b35f0fb | Public network access on Azure IoT Hub should be disabled | Disabling the public network access property improves security by ensuring your Azure IoT Hub can only be accessed from a private endpoint. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-03-02 15:11:40
add: 2d6830fb-07eb-48e7-8c4d-2a442b35f0fb | |
| Event Grid | 6fcec95c-fbdf-45e8-91e1-e3175d9c9eca | Deploy - Configure Azure Event Grid topics with private endpoints | Private endpoints lets you connect your virtual network to Azure services without a public IP address at the source or destination. By mapping private endpoints to your resources, they'll be protected against data leakage risks. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/privateendpoints. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor EventGrid Contributor |
2021-03-02 15:11:40
add: 6fcec95c-fbdf-45e8-91e1-e3175d9c9eca |
| App Service | 324c7761-08db-4474-9661-d1039abc92ee | API apps should use an Azure file share for its content directory | The content directory of an API app should be located on an Azure file share. The storage account information for the file share must be provided before any publishing activity. To learn more about using Azure Files for hosting app service content refer to https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2151594. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
2021-03-02 15:11:40
add: 324c7761-08db-4474-9661-d1039abc92ee | |
| Kubernetes | 3fc4dc25-5baf-40d8-9b05-7fe74c1bc64e | Kubernetes clusters should use internal load balancers | Use internal load balancers to make a Kubernetes service accessible only to applications running in the same virtual network as the Kubernetes cluster. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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change: Major (5.0.1 > 6.0.0) | |
| Kubernetes | f06ddb64-5fa3-4b77-b166-acb36f7f6042 | 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 recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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change: Major (2.0.1 > 3.0.0) | |
| Kubernetes | 56d0a13f-712f-466b-8416-56fb354fb823 | Kubernetes cluster containers should not use forbidden sysctl interfaces | Containers should not use forbidden sysctl interfaces in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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change: Major (3.0.1 > 4.0.0) | |
| Monitoring | 17b3de92-f710-4cf4-aa55-0e7859f1ed7b | [Preview]: Configure system-assigned managed identity to enable Azure Monitor assignments on VMs | Configure system-assigned managed identity to virtual machines hosted in Azure that are supported by Azure Monitor and do not have a system-assigned managed identity. A system-assigned managed identity is a prerequisite for all Azure Monitor assignments and must be added to machines before using any Azure Monitor extension. Target virtual machines must be in a supported location. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor Managed Identity Contributor Managed Identity Operator |
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| Kubernetes | 9f061a12-e40d-4183-a00e-171812443373 | 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. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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change: Major, suffix remains equal (1.0.0-preview > 2.0.0-preview) | |
| Monitoring | 3be22e3b-d919-47aa-805e-8985dbeb0ad9 | Deploy - Configure Dependency agent to be enabled on Windows virtual machine scale sets | Deploy Dependency agent for Windows virtual machine scale sets if the virtual machine image is in the list defined and the agent is not installed. If your scale set upgradePolicy is set to Manual, you need to apply the extension to all the virtual machines in the set by updating them. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-03-02 15:11:40
change: Major (1.3.0 > 2.0.0) |
| Monitoring | 5c3bc7b8-a64c-4e08-a9cd-7ff0f31e1138 | Log Analytics extension should be enabled in virtual machine scale sets for listed virtual machine images | Reports virtual machine scale sets as non-compliant if the virtual machine image is not in the list defined and the extension is not installed. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Major (1.0.1 > 2.0.0) | |
| Machine Learning | 5f0c7d88-c7de-45b8-ac49-db49e72eaa78 | Azure Machine Learning workspaces should use user-assigned managed identity | Manange access to Azure ML workspace and associated resources, Azure Container Registry, KeyVault, Storage, and App Insights using user-assigned managed identity. By default, system-assigned managed identity is used by Azure ML workspace to access the associated resources. User-assigned managed identity allows you to create the identity as an Azure resource and maintain the life cycle of that identity. Learn more at https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/machine-learning/how-to-use-managed-identities?tabs=python. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: 5f0c7d88-c7de-45b8-ac49-db49e72eaa78 | |
| Event Grid | 36f4658a-848a-467b-881c-e6fa20cf75fc | Deploy - Configure Azure Event Grid domains with private endpoints | Private endpoints lets you connect your virtual network to Azure services without a public IP address at the source or destination. By mapping private endpoints to your resources, they'll be protected against data leakage risks. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/privateendpoints. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor EventGrid Contributor |
2021-03-02 15:11:40
add: 36f4658a-848a-467b-881c-e6fa20cf75fc |
| Monitoring | e2dd799a-a932-4e9d-ac17-d473bc3c6c10 | Dependency agent should be enabled in virtual machine scale sets for listed virtual machine images | Reports virtual machine scale sets as non-compliant if the virtual machine image is not in the list defined and the agent is not installed. The list of OS images is updated over time as support is updated. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-03-02 15:11:40
change: Major (1.0.1 > 2.0.0) | |
| SQL | 8e8ca470-d980-4831-99e6-dc70d9f6af87 | Configure Azure SQL Server to enable private endpoint connections | A private endpoint connection enables private connectivity to your Azure SQL Database via a private IP address inside a virtual network. This configuration improves your security posture and supports Azure networking tools and scenarios. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor SQL Server Contributor |
2021-03-02 15:11:40
add: 8e8ca470-d980-4831-99e6-dc70d9f6af87 |
| Batch | 0ef5aac7-c064-427a-b87b-d47b3ddcaf73 | Configure Batch accounts with private endpoints | Private endpoints connect your virtual network to Azure services without a public IP address at the source or destination. By mapping private endpoints to Batch accounts, you can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more about private links at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/batch/private-connectivity. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Contributor |
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add: 0ef5aac7-c064-427a-b87b-d47b3ddcaf73 |
| HDInsight | b0ab5b05-1c98-40f7-bb9e-dc568e41b501 | Azure HDInsight clusters should be injected into a virtual network | Injecting Azure HDInsight clusters in a virtual network unlocks advanced HDInsight networking and security features and provides you with control over your network security configuration. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled, Deny) |
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| General | 6c112d4e-5bc7-47ae-a041-ea2d9dccd749 | Not allowed resource types | Restrict which resource types can be deployed in your environment. Limiting resource types can reduce the complexity and attack surface of your environment while also helping to manage costs. Compliance results are only shown for non-compliant resources. | Default: Deny Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) | |
| Automation | 0c2b3618-68a8-4034-a150-ff4abc873462 | Private endpoint connections on Automation Accounts should be enabled | Private endpoint connections allow secure communication by enabling private connectivity to Automation accounts without a need for public IP addresses at the source or destination. Learn more about private endpoints in Azure Automation at https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/automation/how-to/private-link-security | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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add: 0c2b3618-68a8-4034-a150-ff4abc873462 | |
| Automanage | 270610db-8c04-438a-a739-e8e6745b22d3 | Configure virtual machines to be onboarded to Azure Automanage | Azure Automanage enrolls, configures, and monitors virtual machines with best practice as defined in the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure. Use this policy to apply Automanage to your selected scope. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Contributor |
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change: Major (1.0.0 > 3.0.0) |
| Kubernetes | d2e7ea85-6b44-4317-a0be-1b951587f626 | Kubernetes clusters should not grant CAP_SYS_ADMIN security capabilities | To reduce the attack surface of your containers, restrict CAP_SYS_ADMIN Linux capabilities. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-03-02 15:11:40
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| Compute | 702dd420-7fcc-42c5-afe8-4026edd20fe0 | OS and data disks should be encrypted with a customer-managed key | Use customer-managed keys to manage the encryption at rest of the contents of your managed disks. By default, the data is encrypted at rest with platform-managed keys, but customer-managed keys are commonly required to meet regulatory compliance standards. Customer-managed keys enable the data to be encrypted with an Azure Key Vault key created and owned by you. You have full control and responsibility for the key lifecycle, including rotation and management. Learn more at https://aka.ms/disks-cmk. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: 702dd420-7fcc-42c5-afe8-4026edd20fe0 | |
| Monitoring | 3c1b3629-c8f8-4bf6-862c-037cb9094038 | Deploy - Configure Log Analytics extension to be enabled on Windows virtual machine scale sets | Deploy Log Analytics extension for Windows virtual machine scale sets if the virtual machine image is in the list defined and the extension is not installed. If your scale set upgradePolicy is set to Manual, you need to apply the extension to all the virtual machine in the set by updating them. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Log Analytics Contributor Virtual Machine Contributor |
2021-03-02 15:11:40
change: Major (1.1.0 > 2.0.0) |
| Monitoring | 11ac78e3-31bc-4f0c-8434-37ab963cea07 | Dependency agent should be enabled for listed virtual machine images | Reports virtual machines as non-compliant if the virtual machine image is not in the list defined and the agent is not installed. The list of OS images is updated over time as support is updated. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Major (1.0.1 > 2.0.0) | |
| Monitoring | 1c210e94-a481-4beb-95fa-1571b434fb04 | Deploy - Configure Dependency agent to be enabled on Windows virtual machines | Deploy Dependency agent for Windows virtual machines if the virtual machine image is in the list defined and the agent is not installed. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-03-02 15:11:40
change: Major (1.3.0 > 2.0.0) |
| Kubernetes | 82985f06-dc18-4a48-bc1c-b9f4f0098cfe | Kubernetes cluster pods should only use approved host network and port range | Restrict pod access to the host network and the allowable host port range in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of CIS 5.2.4 which is intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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change: Major (2.0.1 > 3.0.0) | |
| Kubernetes | c26596ff-4d70-4e6a-9a30-c2506bd2f80c | 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 AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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change: Major (2.0.1 > 3.0.0) | |
| Kubernetes | 440b515e-a580-421e-abeb-b159a61ddcbc | [Deprecated]: Kubernetes cluster containers should only listen on allowed ports | Restrict containers to listen only on allowed ports to secure access to the Kubernetes cluster. The policy is deprecating since container port is only informative field which cannot decide the port container is actually using. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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change: Major (5.0.1 > 6.0.0) | |
| Compute | fc4d8e41-e223-45ea-9bf5-eada37891d87 | Virtual machines and virtual machine scale sets should have encryption at host enabled | Use encryption at host to get end-to-end encryption for your virtual machine and virtual machine scale set data. Encryption at host enables encryption at rest for your temporary disk and OS/data disk caches. Temporary and ephemeral OS disks are encrypted with platform-managed keys when encryption at host is enabled. OS/data disk caches are encrypted at rest with either customer-managed or platform-managed key, depending on the encryption type selected on the disk. Learn more at https://aka.ms/vm-hbe. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: fc4d8e41-e223-45ea-9bf5-eada37891d87 | |
| App Configuration | 614ffa75-862c-456e-ad8b-eaa1b0844b07 | Configure private endpoints for App Configuration | Private endpoints let you connect your virtual network to Azure services without a public IP address at the source or destination. By mapping private endpoints to your app configuration instances, data leakage risks are reduced. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/appconfig/private-endpoint. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Contributor |
2021-03-02 15:11:40
add: 614ffa75-862c-456e-ad8b-eaa1b0844b07 |
| Kubernetes | e1e6c427-07d9-46ab-9689-bfa85431e636 | Kubernetes cluster pods and containers should only use allowed SELinux options | Pods and containers should only use allowed SELinux options in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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change: Major (3.0.1 > 4.0.0) | |
| App Configuration | 73290fa2-dfa7-4bbb-945d-a5e23b75df2c | Configure App Configuration to disable public network access | Disable public network access for App Configuration so that it isn't accessible over the public internet. This configuration helps protect them against data leakage risks. You can limit exposure of the your resources by creating private endpoints instead. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/appconfig/private-endpoint. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | Contributor |
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add: 73290fa2-dfa7-4bbb-945d-a5e23b75df2c |
| Kubernetes | 1a5b4dca-0b6f-4cf5-907c-56316bc1bf3d | 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 AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more info, visit https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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change: Major (5.0.2 > 6.0.0) | |
| SQL | 28b0b1e5-17ba-4963-a7a4-5a1ab4400a0b | Configure Azure SQL Server to disable public network access | Disabling the public network access property shuts down public connectivity such that Azure SQL Server can only be accessed from a private endpoint. This configuration disables the public network access for all databases under the Azure SQL Server. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | SQL Server Contributor |
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add: 28b0b1e5-17ba-4963-a7a4-5a1ab4400a0b |
| App Service | 4d0bc837-6eff-477e-9ecd-33bf8d4212a5 | Function apps should use an Azure file share for its content directory | The content directory of a function app should be located on an Azure file share. The storage account information for the file share must be provided before any publishing activity. To learn more about using Azure Files for hosting app service content refer to https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2151594. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
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add: 4d0bc837-6eff-477e-9ecd-33bf8d4212a5 | |
| Monitoring | 0868462e-646c-4fe3-9ced-a733534b6a2c | Deploy - Configure Log Analytics extension to be enabled on Windows virtual machines | Deploy Log Analytics extension for Windows virtual machines if the virtual machine image is in the list defined and the extension is not installed. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-03-02 15:11:40
change: Major (1.1.0 > 2.0.0) |
| Internet of Things | 114eec6e-5e59-4bad-999d-6eceeb39d582 | Modify - Configure Azure IoT Hubs to disable public network access | Disabling the public network access property improves security by ensuring your Azure IoT Hub can only be accessed from a private endpoint. This policy disables public network access on IoT Hub resources. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | Contributor |
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add: 114eec6e-5e59-4bad-999d-6eceeb39d582 |
| Kubernetes | f85eb0dd-92ee-40e9-8a76-db25a507d6d3 | Kubernetes cluster containers should only use allowed ProcMountType | Pod containers can only use allowed ProcMountTypes in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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change: Major (3.0.1 > 4.0.0) | |
| Kubernetes | a27c700f-8a22-44ec-961c-41625264370b | Kubernetes clusters should not use specific security capabilities | Prevent specific security capabilities in Kubernetes clusters to prevent ungranted privileges on the Pod resource. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-03-02 15:11:40
change: Major, suffix remains equal (1.0.0-preview > 2.0.0-preview) | |
| Internet of Things | bf684997-3909-404e-929c-d4a38ed23b2e | Deploy - Configure Azure IoT Hubs with private endpoints | A private endpoint is a private IP address allocated inside a customer-owned virtual network via which an Azure resource is reachable. This policy deploys a private endpoint for your IoT hub to allow services inside your virtual network to reach IoT Hub without requiring traffic to be sent to IoT Hub's public endpoint. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor Contributor |
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add: bf684997-3909-404e-929c-d4a38ed23b2e |
| Storage | 21a8cd35-125e-4d13-b82d-2e19b7208bb7 | Public network access should be disabled for Azure File Sync | Disabling the public endpoint allows you to restrict access to your Storage Sync Service resource to requests destined to approved private endpoints on your organization's network. There is nothing inherently insecure about allowing requests to the public endpoint, however, you may wish to disable it to meet regulatory, legal, or organizational policy requirements. You can disable the public endpoint for a Storage Sync Service by setting the incomingTrafficPolicy of the resource to AllowVirtualNetworksOnly. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: 21a8cd35-125e-4d13-b82d-2e19b7208bb7 | |
| Kubernetes | 098fc59e-46c7-4d99-9b16-64990e543d75 | 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 recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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change: Major (2.0.1 > 3.0.0) | |
| App Configuration | 7a860e27-9ca2-4fc6-822d-c2d248c300df | Configure private DNS zones for private endpoints connected to App Configuration | Use private DNS zones to override the DNS resolution for a private endpoint. A private DNS zone can be linked to your virtual network to resolve app configuration instances. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/appconfig/private-endpoint. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor |
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add: 7a860e27-9ca2-4fc6-822d-c2d248c300df |
| Kubernetes | 423dd1ba-798e-40e4-9c4d-b6902674b423 | Kubernetes clusters should disable automounting API credentials | Disable automounting API credentials to prevent a potentially compromised Pod resource to run API commands against Kubernetes clusters. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-03-02 15:11:40
change: Major, suffix remains equal (1.0.0-preview > 2.0.0-preview) | |
| Compute | ca91455f-eace-4f96-be59-e6e2c35b4816 | Managed disks should be double encrypted with both platform-managed and customer-managed keys | High security sensitive customers who are concerned of the risk associated with any particular encryption algorithm, implementation, or key being compromised can opt for additional layer of encryption using a different encryption algorithm/mode at the infrastructure layer using platform managed encryption keys. The disk encryption sets are required to use double encryption. Learn more at https://aka.ms/disks-doubleEncryption. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-03-02 15:11:40
add: ca91455f-eace-4f96-be59-e6e2c35b4816 | |
| Storage | b35dddd9-daf7-423b-8375-5a5b86806d5a | Configure Azure File Sync with private endpoints | A private endpoint is deployed for the indicated Storage Sync Service resource. This enables you to address your Storage Sync Service resource from within the private IP address space of your organization's network, rather than through the internet-accessible public endpoint. The existence of one or more private endpoints by themselves does not disable the public endpoint. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Contributor |
2021-03-02 15:11:40
add: b35dddd9-daf7-423b-8375-5a5b86806d5a |
| App Service | 7008174a-fd10-4ef0-817e-fc820a951d73 | Ensure that 'Python version' is the latest, if used as a part of the Web app | Periodically, newer versions are released for Python software either due to security flaws or to include additional functionality. Using the latest Python version for web apps is recommended in order to take advantage of security fixes, if any, and/or new functionalities of the latest version. Currently, this policy only applies to Linux web apps. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-03-02 15:11:40
change: Major (2.0.0 > 3.0.0) | |
| Compute | d461a302-a187-421a-89ac-84acdb4edc04 | Managed disks should use a specific set of disk encryption sets for the customer-managed key encryption | Requiring a specific set of disk encryption sets to be used with managed disks give you control over the keys used for encryption at rest. You are able to select the allowed encrypted sets and all others are rejected when attached to a disk. Learn more at https://aka.ms/disks-cmk. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-03-02 15:11:40
add: d461a302-a187-421a-89ac-84acdb4edc04 | |
| Storage | 1d320205-c6a1-4ac6-873d-46224024e8e2 | Azure File Sync should use private link | Creating a private endpoint for the indicated Storage Sync Service resource allows you to address your Storage Sync Service resource from within the private IP address space of your organization's network, rather than through the internet-accessible public endpoint. Creating a private endpoint by itself does not disable the public endpoint. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-03-02 15:11:40
add: 1d320205-c6a1-4ac6-873d-46224024e8e2 | |
| Kubernetes | 233a2a17-77ca-4fb1-9b6b-69223d272a44 | 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 AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-03-02 15:11:40
change: Major (5.0.1 > 6.0.0) | |
| Internet of Things | 47031206-ce96-41f8-861b-6a915f3de284 | [Preview]: IoT Hub device provisioning service data should be encrypted using customer-managed keys (CMK) | Use customer-managed keys to manage the encryption at rest of your IoT Hub device provisioning service. The data is automatically encrypted at rest with service-managed keys, but customer-managed keys (CMK) are commonly required to meet regulatory compliance standards. CMKs enable the data to be encrypted with an Azure Key Vault key created and owned by you. Learn more about CMK encryption at https://aka.ms/dps/CMK. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-03-02 15:11:40
add: 47031206-ce96-41f8-861b-6a915f3de284 | |
| Kubernetes | f4a8fce0-2dd5-4c21-9a36-8f0ec809d663 | Kubernetes cluster pod FlexVolume volumes should only use allowed drivers | Pod FlexVolume volumes should only use allowed drivers in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-03-02 15:11:40
change: Major (2.0.1 > 3.0.0) | |
| Kubernetes | 95edb821-ddaf-4404-9732-666045e056b4 | 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 AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-03-02 15:11:40
change: Major (5.0.1 > 6.0.0) | |
| Kubernetes | e345eecc-fa47-480f-9e88-67dcc122b164 | Kubernetes cluster containers CPU and memory resource limits should not exceed the specified limits | Enforce container CPU and memory resource limits to prevent resource exhaustion attacks in a Kubernetes cluster. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-03-02 15:11:40
change: Major (5.0.1 > 6.0.0) | |
| Kubernetes | 47a1ee2f-2a2a-4576-bf2a-e0e36709c2b8 | Kubernetes cluster containers should not share host process ID or host IPC namespace | Block pod containers from sharing the host process ID namespace and host IPC namespace in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of CIS 5.2.2 and CIS 5.2.3 which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-03-02 15:11:40
change: Major (2.0.1 > 3.0.0) | |
| App Service | 7238174a-fd10-4ef0-817e-fc820a951d73 | Ensure that 'Python version' is the latest, if used as a part of the Function app | Periodically, newer versions are released for Python software either due to security flaws or to include additional functionality. Using the latest Python version for Function apps is recommended in order to take advantage of security fixes, if any, and/or new functionalities of the latest version. Currently, this policy only applies to Linux web apps. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-03-02 15:11:40
change: Major (2.0.0 > 3.0.0) | |
| Kubernetes | d46c275d-1680-448d-b2ec-e495a3b6cc89 | Kubernetes cluster services should only use allowed external IPs | Use allowed external IPs to avoid the potential attack (CVE-2020-8554) in a Kubernetes cluster. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-03-02 15:11:40
change: Major, suffix remains equal (1.0.0-preview > 2.0.0-preview) | |
| Kubernetes | 6c66c325-74c8-42fd-a286-a74b0e2939d8 | Deploy - Configure diagnostic settings for Azure Kubernetes Service to Log Analytics workspace | Deploys the diagnostic settings for Azure Kubernetes Service to stream resource logs to a Log Analytics workspace. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Monitoring Contributor Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-02-23 16:24:42
add: 6c66c325-74c8-42fd-a286-a74b0e2939d8 |
| Batch | 4ec38ebc-381f-45ee-81a4-acbc4be878f8 | Deploy - Configure private DNS zones for private endpoints that connect to Batch accounts | Private DNS records allow private connections to private endpoints. Private endpoint connections allow secure communication by enabling private connectivity to Batch accounts without a need for public IP addresses at the source or destination. For more information on private endpoints and DNS zones in Batch, see https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/batch/private-connectivity. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor |
2021-02-23 16:24:42
add: 4ec38ebc-381f-45ee-81a4-acbc4be878f8 |
| Monitoring | 17b3de92-f710-4cf4-aa55-0e7859f1ed7b | [Preview]: Configure system-assigned managed identity to enable Azure Monitor assignments on VMs | Configure system-assigned managed identity to virtual machines hosted in Azure that are supported by Azure Monitor and do not have a system-assigned managed identity. A system-assigned managed identity is a prerequisite for all Azure Monitor assignments and must be added to machines before using any Azure Monitor extension. Target virtual machines must be in a supported location. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor Managed Identity Contributor Managed Identity Operator |
2021-02-23 16:24:42
change: Minor, suffix remains equal (1.0.0-preview > 1.1.0-preview) |
| Key Vault | 951af2fa-529b-416e-ab6e-066fd85ac459 | Deploy - Configure diagnostic settings for Azure Key Vault to Log Analytics workspace | Deploys the diagnostic settings for Azure Key Vault to stream resource logs to a Log Analytics workspace when any Key Vault which is missing this diagnostic settings is created or updated. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Monitoring Contributor Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-02-23 16:24:42
add: 951af2fa-529b-416e-ab6e-066fd85ac459 |
| Network | b6e2945c-0b7b-40f5-9233-7a5323b5cdc6 | Network Watcher should be enabled | Network Watcher is a regional service that enables you to monitor and diagnose conditions at a network scenario level in, to, and from Azure. Scenario level monitoring enables you to diagnose problems at an end to end network level view. It is required to have a network watcher resource group to be created in every region where a virtual network is present. An alert is enabled if a network watcher resource group is not available in a particular region. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-02-23 16:24:42
change: Major (1.1.0 > 2.0.0) | |
| App Configuration | 89c8a434-18f0-402c-8147-630a8dea54e0 | App Configuration should use a SKU that supports private link | When using a supported SKU, 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. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-02-23 16:24:42
add: 89c8a434-18f0-402c-8147-630a8dea54e0 | |
| Batch | 009a0c92-f5b4-4776-9b66-4ed2b4775563 | Private endpoint connections on Batch accounts should be enabled | Private endpoint connections allow secure communication by enabling private connectivity to Batch accounts without a need for public IP addresses at the source or destination. Learn more about private endpoints in Batch at https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/batch/private-connectivity. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-02-23 16:24:42
add: 009a0c92-f5b4-4776-9b66-4ed2b4775563 | |
| App Configuration | 3d9f5e4c-9947-4579-9539-2a7695fbc187 | App Configuration should disable public network access | Disabling public network access improves security by ensuring that the resource isn't exposed on the public internet. You can limit exposure of your resources by creating private endpoints instead. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/appconfig/private-endpoint. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-02-23 16:24:42
add: 3d9f5e4c-9947-4579-9539-2a7695fbc187 | |
| Storage | 6f8f98a4-f108-47cb-8e98-91a0d85cd474 | Configure diagnostic settings for storage accounts to Log Analytics workspace | Deploys the diagnostic settings for storage accounts to stream resource logs to a Log Analytics workspace when any storage account which is missing this diagnostic settings is created or updated. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Monitoring Contributor Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-02-23 16:24:42
add: 6f8f98a4-f108-47cb-8e98-91a0d85cd474 |
| Event Grid | 36f4658a-848a-467b-881c-e6fa20cf75fc | Deploy - Configure Azure Event Grid domains with private endpoints | Private endpoints lets you connect your virtual network to Azure services without a public IP address at the source or destination. By mapping private endpoints to your resources, they'll be protected against data leakage risks. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/privateendpoints. | n/a | n/a | 2021-02-22 14:29:52 remove: 36f4658a-848a-467b-881c-e6fa20cf75fc (i) |
| Event Grid | 6fcec95c-fbdf-45e8-91e1-e3175d9c9eca | Deploy - Configure Azure Event Grid topics with private endpoints | Private endpoints lets you connect your virtual network to Azure services without a public IP address at the source or destination. By mapping private endpoints to your resources, they'll be protected against data leakage risks. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/privateendpoints. | n/a | n/a | 2021-02-22 14:29:52 remove: 6fcec95c-fbdf-45e8-91e1-e3175d9c9eca (i) |
| Key Vault | a2a5b911-5617-447e-a49e-59dbe0e0434b | Resource logs in Azure Key Vault Managed HSM should be enabled | To recreate activity trails for investigation purposes when a security incident occurs or when your network is compromised, you may want to audit by enabling resource logs on Managed HSMs. Please follow the instructions here: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/key-vault/managed-hsm/logging. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-02-17 14:28:42
add: a2a5b911-5617-447e-a49e-59dbe0e0434b | |
| Event Grid | f8f774be-6aee-492a-9e29-486ef81f3a68 | Azure Event Grid domains should disable public network access | Disabling public network access improves security by ensuring that the resource isn't exposed on the public internet. You can limit exposure of your resources by creating private endpoints instead. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/privateendpoints. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-02-17 14:28:42
add: f8f774be-6aee-492a-9e29-486ef81f3a68 | |
| Security Center | 0b15565f-aa9e-48ba-8619-45960f2c314d | 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. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-02-17 14:28:42
change: Major (1.0.1 > 2.0.0) | |
| Event Grid | 9830b652-8523-49cc-b1b3-e17dce1127ca | Azure Event Grid domains 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 Event Grid domain instead of the entire service, you'll also be protected against data leakage risks. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/privateendpoints. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
2021-02-17 14:28:42
change: Patch (1.0.1 > 1.0.2) | |
| Event Grid | 36f4658a-848a-467b-881c-e6fa20cf75fc | Deploy - Configure Azure Event Grid domains with private endpoints | Private endpoints lets you connect your virtual network to Azure services without a public IP address at the source or destination. By mapping private endpoints to your resources, they'll be protected against data leakage risks. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/privateendpoints. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor EventGrid Contributor |
2021-02-17 14:28:42
add: 36f4658a-848a-467b-881c-e6fa20cf75fc |
| Event Grid | d389df0a-e0d7-4607-833c-75a6fdac2c2d | Deploy - Configure Azure Event Grid domains to use private DNS zones | Use private DNS zones to override the DNS resolution for a private endpoint. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/privatednszone. | Default: deployIfNotExists Allowed: (deployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor |
2021-02-17 14:28:42
add: d389df0a-e0d7-4607-833c-75a6fdac2c2d |
| Monitoring | fa298e57-9444-42ba-bf04-86e8470e32c7 | Saved-queries in Azure Monitor should be saved in customer storage account for logs encryption | Link storage account to Log Analytics workspace to protect saved-queries with storage account encryption. Customer-managed keys are commonly required to meet regulatory compliance and for more control over the access to your saved-queries in Azure Monitor. For more details on the above, see https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-monitor/platform/customer-managed-keys?tabs=portal#customer-managed-key-for-saved-queries. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-02-17 14:28:42
add: fa298e57-9444-42ba-bf04-86e8470e32c7 | |
| App Service | 91a78b24-f231-4a8a-8da9-02c35b2b6510 | Resource logs in App Services should be 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. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-02-17 14:28:42
add: 91a78b24-f231-4a8a-8da9-02c35b2b6510 | |
| Event Grid | 6fcec95c-fbdf-45e8-91e1-e3175d9c9eca | Deploy - Configure Azure Event Grid topics with private endpoints | Private endpoints lets you connect your virtual network to Azure services without a public IP address at the source or destination. By mapping private endpoints to your resources, they'll be protected against data leakage risks. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/privateendpoints. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor EventGrid Contributor |
2021-02-17 14:28:42
add: 6fcec95c-fbdf-45e8-91e1-e3175d9c9eca |
| App Service | c4d441f8-f9d9-4a9e-9cef-e82117cb3eef | Managed identity should be used in your API App | Use a managed identity for enhanced authentication security | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-02-17 14:28:42
change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) | |
| Event Grid | 1adadefe-5f21-44f7-b931-a59b54ccdb45 | Azure Event Grid topics should disable public network access | Disabling public network access improves security by ensuring that the resource isn't exposed on the public internet. You can limit exposure of your resources by creating private endpoints instead. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/privateendpoints. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-02-17 14:28:42
add: 1adadefe-5f21-44f7-b931-a59b54ccdb45 | |
| Event Grid | baf19753-7502-405f-8745-370519b20483 | Deploy - Configure Azure Event Grid topics to use private DNS zones | Use private DNS zones to override the DNS resolution for a private endpoint. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/privatednszone. | Default: deployIfNotExists Allowed: (deployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Network Contributor |
2021-02-17 14:28:42
add: baf19753-7502-405f-8745-370519b20483 |
| Security Center | 73d6ab6c-2475-4850-afd6-43795f3492ef | Deploy Workflow Automation for Azure Security Center recommendations | Enable automation of Azure Security Center recommendations. This policy deploys a workflow automation with your conditions and triggers 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. | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
2021-02-17 14:28:42
change: Major (2.0.0 > 3.0.0) |
| Monitoring | b3884c81-31aa-473d-a9bb-9466fe0ec2a0 | Deploy - Configure diagnostic settings to a Log Analytics workspace to be enabled on Azure Key Vault Managed HSM | Deploys the diagnostic settings for Azure Key Vault Managed HSM to stream to a regional Log Analytics workspace when any Azure Key Vault Managed HSM which is missing this diagnostic settings is created or updated. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Monitoring Contributor Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-02-17 14:28:42
add: b3884c81-31aa-473d-a9bb-9466fe0ec2a0 |
| Security Center | 509122b9-ddd9-47ba-a5f1-d0dac20be63c | Deploy Workflow Automation for Azure Security Center regulatory compliance | Enable automation of Azure Security Center regulatory compliance. This policy deploys a workflow automation with your conditions and triggers 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. | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
2021-02-17 14:28:42
change: Major (2.0.0 > 3.0.0) |
| Event Grid | 4b90e17e-8448-49db-875e-bd83fb6f804f | Azure Event Grid topics 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 Event Grid topic instead of the entire service, you'll also be protected against data leakage risks. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/privateendpoints. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
2021-02-17 14:28:42
change: Patch (1.0.1 > 1.0.2) | |
| Monitoring | 1f68a601-6e6d-4e42-babf-3f643a047ea2 | Azure Monitor Logs clusters should be encrypted with customer-managed key | Create Azure Monitor logs cluster with customer-managed keys encryption. By default, the log data is encrypted with service-managed keys, but customer-managed keys are commonly required to meet regulatory compliance. Customer-managed key in Azure Monitor gives you more control over the access to you data, see https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-monitor/platform/customer-managed-keys. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-02-17 14:28:42
add: 1f68a601-6e6d-4e42-babf-3f643a047ea2 | |
| Key Vault | c39ba22d-4428-4149-b981-70acb31fc383 | Azure Key Vault Managed HSM should have purge protection enabled | Malicious deletion of an Azure Key Vault Managed HSM can lead to permanent data loss. A malicious insider in your organization can potentially delete and purge Azure Key Vault Managed HSM. Purge protection protects you from insider attacks by enforcing a mandatory retention period for soft deleted Azure Key Vault Managed HSM. No one inside your organization or Microsoft will be able to purge your Azure Key Vault Managed HSM during the soft delete retention period. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-02-17 14:28:42
add: c39ba22d-4428-4149-b981-70acb31fc383 | |
| Monitoring | ea0dfaed-95fb-448c-934e-d6e713ce393d | Azure Monitor Logs clusters should be created with infrastructure-encryption enabled (double encryption) | To ensure secure data encryption is enabled at the service level and the infrastructure level with two different encryption algorithms and two different keys, use an Azure Monitor dedicated cluster. This option is enabled by default when supported at the region, see https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-monitor/platform/customer-managed-keys#customer-managed-key-overview. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-02-17 14:28:42
add: ea0dfaed-95fb-448c-934e-d6e713ce393d | |
| App Service | 2b9ad585-36bc-4615-b300-fd4435808332 | Managed identity should be used in your Web App | Use a managed identity for enhanced authentication security | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-02-17 14:28:42
change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) | |
| Security Center | f1525828-9a90-4fcf-be48-268cdd02361e | Deploy Workflow Automation for Azure Security Center alerts | Enable automation of Azure Security Center alerts. This policy deploys a workflow automation with your conditions and triggers 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. | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
2021-02-17 14:28:42
change: Major (2.0.0 > 3.0.0) |
| App Service | 0da106f2-4ca3-48e8-bc85-c638fe6aea8f | Managed identity should be used in your Function App | Use a managed identity for enhanced authentication security | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-02-17 14:28:42
change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) | |
| Monitoring | d550e854-df1a-4de9-bf44-cd894b39a95e | Azure Monitor Logs for Application Insights should be linked to a Log Analytics workspace | Link the Application Insights component to a Log Analytics workspace for logs encryption. Customer-managed keys are commonly required to meet regulatory compliance and for more control over the access to your data in Azure Monitor. Linking your component to a Log Analytics workspace that's enabled with a customer-managed key, ensures that your Application Insights logs meet this compliance requirement, see https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-monitor/platform/customer-managed-keys. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-02-17 14:28:42
add: d550e854-df1a-4de9-bf44-cd894b39a95e | |
| Backup | c717fb0c-d118-4c43-ab3d-ece30ac81fb3 | Deploy Diagnostic Settings for Recovery Services Vault to Log Analytics workspace for resource specific categories. | Deploy Diagnostic Settings for Recovery Services Vault to stream to Log Analytics workspace for Resource specific categories. If any of the Resource specific categories are not enabled, a new diagnostic setting is created. | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Monitoring Contributor Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-02-17 14:28:42
change: Version remains equal, old suffix: preview (1.0.2-preview > 1.0.2) |
| Event Grid | 36ea4b4b-0f7f-4a54-89fa-ab18f555a172 | Modify - Configure Azure Event Grid topics to disable public network access | Disable public network access for Azure Event Grid resource so that it isn't accessible over the public internet. This will help protect them against data leakage risks. You can limit exposure of the your resources by creating private endpoints instead. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/privateendpoints. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | EventGrid Contributor |
2021-02-17 14:28:42
add: 36ea4b4b-0f7f-4a54-89fa-ab18f555a172 |
| Kubernetes | d2e7ea85-6b44-4317-a0be-1b951587f626 | Kubernetes clusters should not grant CAP_SYS_ADMIN security capabilities | To reduce the attack surface of your containers, restrict CAP_SYS_ADMIN Linux capabilities. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-02-17 14:28:42
add: d2e7ea85-6b44-4317-a0be-1b951587f626 | |
| Key Vault | a6d2c800-5230-4a40-bff3-8268b4987d42 | Deploy - Configure diagnostic settings to an Event Hub to be enabled on Azure Key Vault Managed HSM | Deploys the diagnostic settings for Azure Key Vault Managed HSM to stream to a regional Event Hub when any Azure Key Vault Managed HSM which is missing this diagnostic settings is created or updated. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Contributor |
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add: a6d2c800-5230-4a40-bff3-8268b4987d42 |
| Event Grid | 898e9824-104c-4965-8e0e-5197588fa5d4 | Modify - Configure Azure Event Grid domains to disable public network access | Disable public network access for Azure Event Grid resource so that it isn't accessible over the public internet. This will help protect them against data leakage risks. You can limit exposure of the your resources by creating private endpoints instead. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/privateendpoints. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | EventGrid Contributor |
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add: 898e9824-104c-4965-8e0e-5197588fa5d4 |
| SQL | a9934fd7-29f2-4e6d-ab3d-607ea38e9079 | SQL Managed Instances should avoid using GRS backup redundancy | Managed Instances should avoid using the default geo-redundant storage for backups, if data residency rules require data to stay within a specific region. Note: Azure Policy is not enforced when creating a database using T-SQL. If not explicitly specified, database with geo-redundant backup storage is created via T-SQL. | Default: Deny Allowed: (Deny, Disabled) |
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change: Patch (1.0.0 > 1.0.1) | |
| Event Hub | 83a214f7-d01a-484b-91a9-ed54470c9a6a | Resource logs in Event Hub 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 | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Major (3.0.0 > 4.0.1) | |
| Internet of Things | 383856f8-de7f-44a2-81fc-e5135b5c2aa4 | Resource logs in IoT Hub 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 | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-02-10 14:43:58
change: Major (2.0.0 > 3.0.1) | |
| Service Bus | f8d36e2f-389b-4ee4-898d-21aeb69a0f45 | 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 | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-02-10 14:43:58
change: Major (3.0.0 > 4.0.1) | |
| Backup | c717fb0c-d118-4c43-ab3d-ece30ac81fb3 | Deploy Diagnostic Settings for Recovery Services Vault to Log Analytics workspace for resource specific categories. | Deploy Diagnostic Settings for Recovery Services Vault to stream to Log Analytics workspace for Resource specific categories. If any of the Resource specific categories are not enabled, a new diagnostic setting is created. | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Monitoring Contributor Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-02-10 14:43:58
change: Patch, suffix remains equal (1.0.1-preview > 1.0.2-preview) |
| SQL | 89099bee-89e0-4b26-a5f4-165451757743 | 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. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-02-10 14:43:58
change: Patch (2.0.0 > 2.0.1) | |
| Key Vault | 1e66c121-a66a-4b1f-9b83-0fd99bf0fc2d | Key vaults should have soft delete enabled | Deleting a key vault without soft delete enabled permanently deletes all secrets, keys, and certificates stored in the key vault. Accidental deletion of a key vault can lead to permanent data loss. Soft delete allows you to recover an accidentally deleted key vault for a configurable retention period. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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change: Patch (1.0.1 > 1.0.2) | |
| Search | b4330a05-a843-4bc8-bf9a-cacce50c67f4 | 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 | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-02-10 14:43:58
change: Major (3.0.0 > 4.0.1) | |
| SQL | 7ea8a143-05e3-4553-abfe-f56bef8b0b70 | Configure Azure SQL database servers diagnostic settings to Log Analytics workspace | Enables auditing logs for Azure SQL Database server and stream the logs to a Log Analytics workspace when any SQL Server which is missing this auditing is created or updated | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | SQL Security Manager Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-02-10 14:43:58
add: 7ea8a143-05e3-4553-abfe-f56bef8b0b70 |
| Data Factory | 77d40665-3120-4348-b539-3192ec808307 | [Preview]: Azure Data Factory should use a Git repository for source control | Enable source control on data factories, to gain capabilities such as change tracking, collaboration, continuous integration, and deployment. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-02-10 14:43:58
add: 77d40665-3120-4348-b539-3192ec808307 | |
| API for FHIR | 051cba44-2429-45b9-9649-46cec11c7119 | Azure API for FHIR should use a customer-managed key to encrypt data at rest | Use a customer-managed key to control the encryption at rest of the data stored in Azure API for FHIR when this is a regulatory or compliance requirement. Customer-managed keys also deliver double encryption by adding a second layer of encryption on top of the default one done with service-managed keys. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, disabled) |
2021-02-10 14:43:58
change: Patch (1.0.0 > 1.0.1) | |
| Data Lake | c95c74d9-38fe-4f0d-af86-0c7d626a315c | Resource logs in Data Lake Analytics 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 | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-02-10 14:43:58
change: Major (3.0.0 > 4.0.1) | |
| SQL | 18adea5e-f416-4d0f-8aa8-d24321e3e274 | PostgreSQL servers should use customer-managed keys to encrypt data at rest | Use customer-managed keys to manage the encryption at rest of your PostgreSQL servers. By default, the data is encrypted at rest with service-managed keys, but customer-managed keys are commonly required to meet regulatory compliance standards. Customer-managed keys enable the data to be encrypted with an Azure Key Vault key created and owned by you. You have full control and responsibility for the key lifecycle, including rotation and management. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-02-10 14:43:58
change: Patch (1.0.2 > 1.0.3) | |
| SQL | b79fa14e-238a-4c2d-b376-442ce508fc84 | Deploy - Configure diagnostic settings for SQL Databases to Log Analytics workspace | Deploys the diagnostic settings for SQL Databases to stream resource logs to a Log Analytics workspace when any SQL Database which is missing this diagnostic settings is created or updated. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Monitoring Contributor Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-02-10 14:43:58
change: Patch (1.0.0 > 1.0.1) |
| Cache | 7d092e0a-7acd-40d2-a975-dca21cae48c4 | Azure Cache for Redis should reside within a virtual network | Azure Virtual Network deployment provides enhanced security and isolation for your Azure Cache for Redis, as well as subnets, access control policies, and other features to further restrict access.When an Azure Cache for Redis instance is configured with a virtual network, it is not publicly addressable and can only be accessed from virtual machines and applications within the virtual network. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-02-10 14:43:58
change: Patch (1.0.2 > 1.0.3) | |
| Data Factory | 4ec52d6d-beb7-40c4-9a9e-fe753254690e | Azure data factories should be encrypted with a customer-managed key | Use customer-managed keys to manage the encryption at rest of your Azure Data Factory. By default, customer data is encrypted with service-managed keys, but customer-managed keys are commonly required to meet regulatory compliance standards. Customer-managed keys enable the data to be encrypted with an Azure Key Vault key created and owned by you. You have full control and responsibility for the key lifecycle, including rotation and management. Learn more at https://aka.ms/adf-cmk. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-02-10 14:43:58
change: Patch (1.0.0 > 1.0.1) | |
| SQL | b219b9cf-f672-4f96-9ab0-f5a3ac5e1c13 | SQL Database should avoid using GRS backup redundancy | Databases should avoid using the default geo-redundant storage for backups, if data residency rules require data to stay within a specific region. Note: Azure Policy is not enforced when creating a database using T-SQL. If not explicitly specified, database with geo-redundant backup storage is created via T-SQL. | Default: Deny Allowed: (Deny, Disabled) |
2021-02-10 14:43:58
change: Patch (1.0.0 > 1.0.1) | |
| Machine Learning | ba769a63-b8cc-4b2d-abf6-ac33c7204be8 | Azure Machine Learning workspaces should be encrypted with a customer-managed key | Manage encryption at rest of Azure Machine Learning workspace data with customer-managed keys. By default, customer data is encrypted with service-managed keys, but customer-managed keys are commonly required to meet regulatory compliance standards. Customer-managed keys enable the data to be encrypted with an Azure Key Vault key created and owned by you. You have full control and responsibility for the key lifecycle, including rotation and management. Learn more at https://aka.ms/azureml-workspaces-cmk. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-02-10 14:43:58
change: Patch (1.0.2 > 1.0.3) | |
| Cognitive Services | 67121cc7-ff39-4ab8-b7e3-95b84dab487d | Cognitive Services accounts should enable data encryption with a customer-managed key | Customer-managed keys are commonly required to meet regulatory compliance standards. Customer-managed keys enable the data stored in Cognitive Services to be encrypted with an Azure Key Vault key created and owned by you. You have full control and responsibility for the key lifecycle, including rotation and management. Learn more about customer-managed keys at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2121321. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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change: Patch (1.0.2 > 1.0.3) | |
| HDInsight | 64d314f6-6062-4780-a861-c23e8951bee5 | Azure HDInsight clusters should use customer-managed keys to encrypt data at rest | Use customer-managed keys to manage the encryption at rest of your Azure HDInsight clusters. By default, customer data is encrypted with service-managed keys, but customer-managed keys are commonly required to meet regulatory compliance standards. Customer-managed keys enable the data to be encrypted with an Azure Key Vault key created and owned by you. You have full control and responsibility for the key lifecycle, including rotation and management. Learn more at https://aka.ms/hdi.cmk. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-02-10 14:43:58
change: Patch (1.0.0 > 1.0.1) | |
| Stream Analytics | f9be5368-9bf5-4b84-9e0a-7850da98bb46 | Resource logs in Azure Stream Analytics 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 | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Major (3.0.0 > 4.0.1) | |
| General | 0a914e76-4921-4c19-b460-a2d36003525a | Audit resource location matches resource group location | Audit that the resource location matches its resource group location | Fixed: audit |
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change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) | |
| SQL | 83cef61d-dbd1-4b20-a4fc-5fbc7da10833 | MySQL servers should use customer-managed keys to encrypt data at rest | Use customer-managed keys to manage the encryption at rest of your MySQL servers. By default, the data is encrypted at rest with service-managed keys, but customer-managed keys are commonly required to meet regulatory compliance standards. Customer-managed keys enable the data to be encrypted with an Azure Key Vault key created and owned by you. You have full control and responsibility for the key lifecycle, including rotation and management. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Patch (1.0.2 > 1.0.3) | |
| Batch | 99e9ccd8-3db9-4592-b0d1-14b1715a4d8a | Azure Batch account should use customer-managed keys to encrypt data | Use customer-managed keys to manage the encryption at rest of your Batch account's data. By default, customer data is encrypted with service-managed keys, but customer-managed keys are commonly required to meet regulatory compliance standards. Customer-managed keys enable the data to be encrypted with an Azure Key Vault key created and owned by you. You have full control and responsibility for the key lifecycle, including rotation and management. Learn more at https://aka.ms/Batch-CMK. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-02-10 14:43:58
change: Patch (1.0.0 > 1.0.1) | |
| Data Factory | 85bb39b5-2f66-49f8-9306-77da3ac5130f | [Preview]: Azure Data Factory integration runtime should have a limit for number of cores | To manage your resources and costs, limit the number of cores for an integration runtime. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: 85bb39b5-2f66-49f8-9306-77da3ac5130f | |
| Storage | 6fac406b-40ca-413b-bf8e-0bf964659c25 | 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. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
2021-02-10 14:43:58
change: Patch (1.0.1 > 1.0.2) | |
| Batch | 428256e6-1fac-4f48-a757-df34c2b3336d | Resource logs in Batch accounts 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 | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-02-10 14:43:58
change: Major (3.0.0 > 4.0.1) | |
| Cosmos DB | 1f905d99-2ab7-462c-a6b0-f709acca6c8f | Azure Cosmos DB accounts should use customer-managed keys to encrypt data at rest | Use customer-managed keys to manage the encryption at rest of your Azure Cosmos DB. By default, the data is encrypted at rest with service-managed keys, but customer-managed keys are commonly required to meet regulatory compliance standards. Customer-managed keys enable the data to be encrypted with an Azure Key Vault key created and owned by you. You have full control and responsibility for the key lifecycle, including rotation and management. Learn more at https://aka.ms/cosmosdb-cmk. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-02-10 14:43:58
change: Patch (1.0.1 > 1.0.2) | |
| Key Vault | cf820ca0-f99e-4f3e-84fb-66e913812d21 | Resource logs in Key Vault 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 | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-02-10 14:43:58
change: Major (3.0.0 > 4.0.1) | |
| Logic Apps | 34f95f76-5386-4de7-b824-0d8478470c9d | Resource logs in Logic Apps 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 | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-02-10 14:43:58
change: Major (3.0.0 > 4.0.1) | |
| Data Lake | 057ef27e-665e-4328-8ea3-04b3122bd9fb | Resource logs in Azure Data Lake Store 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 | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-02-10 14:43:58
change: Major (3.0.0 > 4.0.1) | |
| Data Factory | 127ef6d7-242f-43b3-9eef-947faf1725d0 | [Preview]: Azure Data Factory linked services should use Key Vault for storing secrets | To ensure secrets (such as connection strings) are managed securely, require users to provide secrets using an Azure Key Vault instead of specifying them inline in linked services. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: 127ef6d7-242f-43b3-9eef-947faf1725d0 | |
| Compute | 7c1b1214-f927-48bf-8882-84f0af6588b1 | Resource logs in Virtual Machine Scale Sets should be enabled | It is recommended to enable Logs so that activity trail can be recreated when investigations are required in the event of an incident or a compromise. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-02-10 14:43:58
change: Patch (2.0.0 > 2.0.1) | |
| Data Factory | f78ccdb4-7bf4-4106-8647-270491d2978a | [Preview]: Azure Data Factory linked services should use system-assigned managed identity authentication when it is supported | Using system-assigned managed identity when communicating with data stores via linked services avoids the use of less secured credentials such as passwords or connection strings. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: f78ccdb4-7bf4-4106-8647-270491d2978a | |
| Storage | 34c877ad-507e-4c82-993e-3452a6e0ad3c | 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 | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-02-10 14:43:58
change: Patch (1.1.0 > 1.1.1) | |
| Data Factory | 6809a3d0-d354-42fb-b955-783d207c62a8 | [Preview]: Azure Data Factory linked service resource type should be in allow list | Define the allow list of Azure Data Factory linked service types. Restricting allowed resource types enables control over the boundary of data movement. For example, restrict a scope to only allow blob storage with Data Lake Storage Gen1 and Gen2 for analytics or a scope to only allow SQL and Kusto access for real-time queries. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: 6809a3d0-d354-42fb-b955-783d207c62a8 | |
| Container Registry | 5b9159ae-1701-4a6f-9a7a-aa9c8ddd0580 | Container registries should be encrypted with a customer-managed key | Use customer-managed keys to manage the encryption at rest of the contents of your registries. By default, the data is encrypted at rest with service-managed keys, but customer-managed keys are commonly required to meet regulatory compliance standards. Customer-managed keys enable the data to be encrypted with an Azure Key Vault key created and owned by you. You have full control and responsibility for the key lifecycle, including rotation and management. Learn more at https://aka.ms/acr/CMK. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-02-10 14:43:58
change: Patch (1.1.1 > 1.1.2) | |
| Security Center | 73d6ab6c-2475-4850-afd6-43795f3492ef | Deploy Workflow Automation for Azure Security Center recommendations | Enable automation of Azure Security Center recommendations. This policy deploys a workflow automation with your conditions and triggers 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. | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
2021-02-03 15:09:01
change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) |
| Security Center | cdfcce10-4578-4ecd-9703-530938e4abcb | Deploy export to Event Hub for Azure Security Center data | Enable export to Event Hub of Azure Security Center data. This policy deploys an export to Event Hub 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. | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
2021-02-03 15:09:01
change: Major (2.0.0 > 3.0.0) |
| Azure Data Explorer | ec068d99-e9c7-401f-8cef-5bdde4e6ccf1 | Double encryption should be enabled on Azure Data Explorer | Enabling double encryption helps protect and safeguard your data to meet your organizational security and compliance commitments. When double encryption has been enabled, data in the storage account is encrypted twice, once at the service level and once at the infrastructure level, using two different encryption algorithms and two different keys. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-02-03 15:09:01
change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) | |
| Automation | 56a5ee18-2ae6-4810-86f7-18e39ce5629b | Azure Automation accounts should use customer-managed keys to encrypt data at rest | Use customer-managed keys to manage the encryption at rest of your Azure Automation Accounts. By default, customer data is encrypted with service-managed keys, but customer-managed keys are commonly required to meet regulatory compliance standards. Customer-managed keys enable the data to be encrypted with an Azure Key Vault key created and owned by you. You have full control and responsibility for the key lifecycle, including rotation and management. Learn more at https://aka.ms/automation-cmk. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-02-03 15:09:01
add: 56a5ee18-2ae6-4810-86f7-18e39ce5629b | |
| Kubernetes | 41425d9f-d1a5-499a-9932-f8ed8453932c | Temp disks and cache for agent node pools in Azure Kubernetes Service clusters should be encrypted at host | To enhance data security, the data stored on the virtual machine (VM) host of your Azure Kubernetes Service nodes VMs should be encrypted at rest. This is a common requirement in many regulatory and industry compliance standards. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-02-03 15:09:01
add: 41425d9f-d1a5-499a-9932-f8ed8453932c | |
| Security Center | f1525828-9a90-4fcf-be48-268cdd02361e | Deploy Workflow Automation for Azure Security Center alerts | Enable automation of Azure Security Center alerts. This policy deploys a workflow automation with your conditions and triggers 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. | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
2021-02-03 15:09:01
change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) |
| API Management | ef619a2c-cc4d-4d03-b2ba-8c94a834d85b | API Management services should use a virtual network | Azure Virtual Network deployment provides enhanced security, isolation and allows you to place your API Management service in a non-internet routable network that you control access to. These networks can then be connected to your on-premises networks using various VPN technologies, which enables access to your backend services within the network and/or on-premises. The developer portal and API gateway, can be configured to be accessible either from the Internet or only within the virtual network. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
2021-02-03 15:09:01
change: Patch (1.0.0 > 1.0.1) | |
| Security Center | ffb6f416-7bd2-4488-8828-56585fef2be9 | Deploy export to Log Analytics workspace for Azure Security Center data | Enable export to Log Analytics workspace of Azure Security Center data. This policy deploys an export to Log Analytics workspace configuration with your conditions and target workspace 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. | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
2021-02-03 15:09:01
change: Major (2.0.0 > 3.0.0) |
| SQL | b79fa14e-238a-4c2d-b376-442ce508fc84 | Deploy - Configure diagnostic settings for SQL Databases to Log Analytics workspace | Deploys the diagnostic settings for SQL Databases to stream resource logs to a Log Analytics workspace when any SQL Database which is missing this diagnostic settings is created or updated. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Monitoring Contributor Log Analytics Contributor |
2021-02-03 15:09:01
add: b79fa14e-238a-4c2d-b376-442ce508fc84 |
| Kubernetes | 1a5b4dca-0b6f-4cf5-907c-56316bc1bf3d | 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 AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more info, visit https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2021-02-03 15:09:01
change: Patch (5.0.1 > 5.0.2) | |
| Security Center | 509122b9-ddd9-47ba-a5f1-d0dac20be63c | Deploy Workflow Automation for Azure Security Center regulatory compliance | Enable automation of Azure Security Center regulatory compliance. This policy deploys a workflow automation with your conditions and triggers 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. | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
2021-02-03 15:09:01
add: 509122b9-ddd9-47ba-a5f1-d0dac20be63c |
| Data Factory | 1cf164be-6819-4a50-b8fa-4bcaa4f98fb6 | Public network access on Azure Data Factory should be disabled | Disabling the public network access property improves security by ensuring your Azure Data Factory can only be accessed from a private endpoint. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-02-03 15:09:01
add: 1cf164be-6819-4a50-b8fa-4bcaa4f98fb6 | |
| Azure Data Explorer | f4b53539-8df9-40e4-86c6-6b607703bd4e | Disk encryption should be enabled on Azure Data Explorer | Enabling disk encryption helps protect and safeguard your data to meet your organizational security and compliance commitments. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) | |
| Bot Service | 51522a96-0869-4791-82f3-981000c2c67f | Bot Service should be encrypted with a customer-managed key | Azure Bot Service automatically encrypts your resource to protect your data and meet organizational security and compliance commitments. By default, Microsoft-managed encryption keys are used. For greater flexibility in managing keys or controlling access to your subscription, select customer-managed keys, also known as bring your own key (BYOK). Learn more about Azure Bot Service encryption: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/bot-service/bot-service-encryption. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Bot Service | 6164527b-e1ee-4882-8673-572f425f5e0a | Bot Service endpoint should be a valid HTTPS URI | Data can be tampered with during transmission. Protocols exist that provide encryption to address problems of misuse and tampering. To ensure your bots are communicating only over encrypted channels, set the endpoint to a valid HTTPS URI. This ensures the HTTPS protocol is used to encrypt your data in transit and is also often a requirement for compliance with regulatory or industry standards. Please visit: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/bot-service/bot-builder-security-guidelines. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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change: Patch (1.0.0 > 1.0.1) | |
| Batch | 74c5a0ae-5e48-4738-b093-65e23a060488 | Public network access should be disabled for Batch accounts | Disabling public network access on a Batch account improves security by ensuring your Batch account can only be accessed from a private endpoint. Learn more about disabling public network access at https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/batch/private-connectivity. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: 74c5a0ae-5e48-4738-b093-65e23a060488 | |
| Kubernetes | 0a15ec92-a229-4763-bb14-0ea34a568f8d | Azure Policy Add-on for Kubernetes service (AKS) should be installed and enabled on your clusters | Azure Policy Add-on for Kubernetes service (AKS) extends Gatekeeper v3, an admission controller webhook for Open Policy Agent (OPA), to apply at-scale enforcements and safeguards on your clusters in a centralized, consistent manner. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
2021-01-27 16:54:46
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| Security Center | 501541f7-f7e7-4cd6-868c-4190fdad3ac9 | 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. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Major (2.0.0 > 3.0.0) | |
| Event Hub | a1ad735a-e96f-45d2-a7b2-9a4932cab7ec | Event Hub namespaces should use a customer-managed key for encryption | Azure Event Hubs supports the option of encrypting data at rest with either Microsoft-managed keys (default) or customer-managed keys. Choosing to encrypt data using customer-managed keys enables you to assign, rotate, disable, and revoke access to the keys that Event Hub will use to encrypt data in your namespace. Note that Event Hub only supports encryption with customer-managed keys for namespaces in dedicated clusters. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
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add: a1ad735a-e96f-45d2-a7b2-9a4932cab7ec | |
| Service Bus | 295fc8b1-dc9f-4f53-9c61-3f313ceab40a | Service Bus Premium namespaces should use a customer-managed key for encryption | Azure Service Bus supports the option of encrypting data at rest with either Microsoft-managed keys (default) or customer-managed keys. Choosing to encrypt data using customer-managed keys enables you to assign, rotate, disable, and revoke access to the keys that Service Bus will use to encrypt data in your namespace. Note that Service Bus only supports encryption with customer-managed keys for premium namespaces. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
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add: 295fc8b1-dc9f-4f53-9c61-3f313ceab40a | |
| Guest Configuration | 5752e6d6-1206-46d8-8ab1-ecc2f71a8112 | Windows web servers should be configured to use secure communication protocols | To protect the privacy of information communicated over the Internet, your web servers should use the latest version of the industry-standard cryptographic protocol, Transport Layer Security (TLS). TLS secures communications over a network by using security certificates to encrypt a connection between machines. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) | |
| Attestation | 7b256a2d-058b-41f8-bed9-3f870541c40a | Azure Attestation providers should use private endpoints | Private endpoints provide a way to connect Azure Attestation providers to your Azure resources without sending traffic over the public internet. By preventing public access, private endpoints help protect against undesired anonymous access. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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add: 7b256a2d-058b-41f8-bed9-3f870541c40a | |
| Key Vault | 5f0bc445-3935-4915-9981-011aa2b46147 | [Preview]: Private endpoint should be configured for Key Vault | Private link provides a way to connect Key Vault to your Azure resources without sending traffic over the public internet. Private link provides defense in depth protection against data exfiltration. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-01-27 16:54:46
change: Minor, suffix remains equal (1.0.2-preview > 1.1.0-preview) | |
| HDInsight | 1fd32ebd-e4c3-4e13-a54a-d7422d4d95f6 | Azure HDInsight clusters should use encryption at host to encrypt data at rest | Enabling encryption at host helps protect and safeguard your data to meet your organizational security and compliance commitments. When you enable encryption at host, data stored on the VM host is encrypted at rest and flows encrypted to the Storage service. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2021-01-22 09:14:53
add: 1fd32ebd-e4c3-4e13-a54a-d7422d4d95f6 | |
| Guest Configuration | fc9b3da7-8347-4380-8e70-0a0361d8dedd | 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. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2021-01-22 09:14:53
change: Minor, suffix remains equal (1.0.0-preview > 1.1.0-preview) | |
| Monitoring | 17b3de92-f710-4cf4-aa55-0e7859f1ed7b | [Preview]: Configure system-assigned managed identity to enable Azure Monitor assignments on VMs | Configure system-assigned managed identity to virtual machines hosted in Azure that are supported by Azure Monitor and do not have a system-assigned managed identity. A system-assigned managed identity is a prerequisite for all Azure Monitor assignments and must be added to machines before using any Azure Monitor extension. Target virtual machines must be in a supported location. | Default: Modify Allowed: (Modify, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor Managed Identity Contributor Managed Identity Operator |
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add: 17b3de92-f710-4cf4-aa55-0e7859f1ed7b |
| Security Center | ae89ebca-1c92-4898-ac2c-9f63decb045c | 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. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Patch (1.0.0 > 1.0.1) | |
| Security Center | 1537496a-b1e8-482b-a06a-1cc2415cdc7b | [Preview]: Configure supported Windows machines to automatically install the Azure Security agent | Configure supported Windows machines to automatically install the Azure Security agent. Security Center collects events from the agent and uses them to provide security alerts and tailored hardening tasks (recommendations). Target virtual machines must be in a supported location. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
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| Security Center | 760a85ff-6162-42b3-8d70-698e268f648c | [Deprecated]: Vulnerabilities should be remediated by a Vulnerability Assessment solution | Monitors vulnerabilities detected by Vulnerability Assessment solution and VMs without a Vulnerability Assessment solution in Azure Security Center as recommendations. | Default: Disabled Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Version remains equal, new suffix: deprecated (3.0.0 > 3.0.0-deprecated) | |
| Guest Configuration | 630c64f9-8b6b-4c64-b511-6544ceff6fd6 | Authentication to Linux machines should require SSH keys | Although SSH itself provides an encrypted connection, using passwords with SSH still leaves the VM vulnerable to brute-force attacks. The most secure option for authenticating to an Azure Linux virtual machine over SSH is with a public-private key pair, also known as SSH keys. Learn more: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-machines/linux/create-ssh-keys-detailed. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Patch (2.0.0 > 2.0.1) | |
| Security Center | d26f7642-7545-4e18-9b75-8c9bbdee3a9a | 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 | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Patch (1.0.0 > 1.0.1) | |
| Synapse | 0049a6b3-a662-4f3e-8635-39cf44ace45a | Vulnerability assessment should be enabled on your Synapse workspaces | Discover, track, and remediate potential vulnerabilities by configuring recurring SQL vulnerability assessment scans on your Synapse workspaces. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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add: 0049a6b3-a662-4f3e-8635-39cf44ace45a | |
| Monitoring | ca817e41-e85a-4783-bc7f-dc532d36235e | Configure Windows virtual machines to run Azure Monitor Agent | Automate the deployment of Azure Monitor Agent extension on your Windows virtual machines for collecting telemetry data from the guest OS. This policy will install the extension if the OS and region are supported and system-assigned managed identity is enabled, and skip install otherwise. Learn more: https://aka.ms/AMAOverview. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
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| HDInsight | d9da03a1-f3c3-412a-9709-947156872263 | Azure HDInsight clusters should use encryption in transit to encrypt communication between Azure HDInsight cluster nodes | Data can be tampered with during transmission between Azure HDInsight cluster nodes. Enabling encryption in transit addresses problems of misuse and tampering during this transmission. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: d9da03a1-f3c3-412a-9709-947156872263 | |
| Guest Configuration | 72650e9f-97bc-4b2a-ab5f-9781a9fcecbc | Windows machines should meet requirements of 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. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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add: 72650e9f-97bc-4b2a-ab5f-9781a9fcecbc | |
| HDInsight | 64d314f6-6062-4780-a861-c23e8951bee5 | Azure HDInsight clusters should use customer-managed keys to encrypt data at rest | Use customer-managed keys to manage the encryption at rest of your Azure HDInsight clusters. By default, customer data is encrypted with service-managed keys, but customer-managed keys are commonly required to meet regulatory compliance standards. Customer-managed keys enable the data to be encrypted with an Azure Key Vault key created and owned by you. You have full control and responsibility for the key lifecycle, including rotation and management. Learn more at https://aka.ms/hdi.cmk. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: 64d314f6-6062-4780-a861-c23e8951bee5 | |
| Guest Configuration | bed48b13-6647-468e-aa2f-1af1d3f4dd40 | Windows Defender Exploit Guard should be enabled on your machines | Windows Defender Exploit Guard uses the Azure Policy Guest Configuration agent. Exploit Guard has four components that are designed to lock down devices against a wide variety of attack vectors and block behaviors commonly used in malware attacks while enabling enterprises to balance their security risk and productivity requirements (Windows only). | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Patch (1.1.0 > 1.1.1) | |
| Security Center | b4d66858-c922-44e3-9566-5cdb7a7be744 | [Deprecated]: A security contact phone number should be provided for your subscription | Enter a phone number to receive notifications when Azure Security Center detects compromised resources - This policy is deprecated because phone numbers are no longer used in any scenario by Azure Security Center | Default: Disabled Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Compute | ac34a73f-9fa5-4067-9247-a3ecae514468 | Configure disaster recovery on virtual machines by enabling replication via Azure Site Recovery | Virtual machines without disaster recovery configurations are vulnerable to outages and other disruptions. If the virtual machine does not already have disaster recovery configured, this would initiate the same by enabling replication using preset configurations to facilitate business continuity. You can optionally include/exclude virtual machines containing a specified tag to control the scope of assignment. To learn more about disaster recovery, visit https://aka.ms/asr-doc. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Owner |
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| Security Center | 5f8eb305-9c9f-4abe-9bb0-df220d9faba2 | [Preview]: Configure supported Linux virtual machines to automatically install the Azure Security agent | Configure supported Linux virtual machines to automatically install the Azure Security agent. Security Center collects events from the agent and uses them to provide security alerts and tailored hardening tasks (recommendations). Target virtual machines must be in a supported location. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
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add: 5f8eb305-9c9f-4abe-9bb0-df220d9faba2 |
| Monitoring | a4034bc6-ae50-406d-bf76-50f4ee5a7811 | Configure Linux virtual machines to run Azure Monitor Agent | Automate the deployment of Azure Monitor Agent extension on your Linux virtual machines for collecting telemetry data from the guest OS. This policy will install the extension if the OS and region are supported and system-assigned managed identity is enabled, and skip install otherwise. Learn more: https://aka.ms/AMAOverview. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor |
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| SQL | 7698e800-9299-47a6-b3b6-5a0fee576eed | Private endpoint connections on Azure SQL Database should be enabled | Private endpoint connections enforce secure communication by enabling private connectivity to Azure SQL Database. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
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change: Minor (1.0.1 > 1.1.0) | |
| Kubernetes | d46c275d-1680-448d-b2ec-e495a3b6cc89 | Kubernetes cluster services should only use allowed external IPs | Use allowed external IPs to avoid the potential attack (CVE-2020-8554) in a Kubernetes cluster. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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add: d46c275d-1680-448d-b2ec-e495a3b6cc89 | |
| SQL | 1b8ca024-1d5c-4dec-8995-b1a932b41780 | Public network access on Azure SQL Database should be disabled | Disabling the public network access property improves security by ensuring your Azure SQL Database can only be accessed from a private endpoint. This configuration denies all logins that match IP or virtual network based firewall rules. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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change: Minor (1.0.1 > 1.1.0) | |
| Data Factory | 4ec52d6d-beb7-40c4-9a9e-fe753254690e | Azure data factories should be encrypted with a customer-managed key | Use customer-managed keys to manage the encryption at rest of your Azure Data Factory. By default, customer data is encrypted with service-managed keys, but customer-managed keys are commonly required to meet regulatory compliance standards. Customer-managed keys enable the data to be encrypted with an Azure Key Vault key created and owned by you. You have full control and responsibility for the key lifecycle, including rotation and management. Learn more at https://aka.ms/adf-cmk. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: 4ec52d6d-beb7-40c4-9a9e-fe753254690e | |
| Security Center | 5f76cf89-fbf2-47fd-a3f4-b891fa780b60 | External accounts with read permissions should be removed from your subscription | External accounts with read privileges should be removed from your subscription in order to prevent unmonitored access. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Major (2.0.0 > 3.0.0) | |
| Security Center | f6de0be7-9a8a-4b8a-b349-43cf02d22f7c | 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 | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Major (2.0.0 > 3.0.0) | |
| SQL | 36d49e87-48c4-4f2e-beed-ba4ed02b71f5 | Configure Azure Defender to be enabled on SQL servers | Enable Azure Defender on your Azure SQL Servers to detect anomalous activities indicating unusual and potentially harmful attempts to access or exploit databases. | Fixed: DeployIfNotExists | SQL Security Manager |
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change: Major (1.1.0 > 2.0.0) |
| Security Center | 4f11b553-d42e-4e3a-89be-32ca364cad4c | 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. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Major (2.0.0 > 3.0.0) | |
| Batch | 99e9ccd8-3db9-4592-b0d1-14b1715a4d8a | Azure Batch account should use customer-managed keys to encrypt data | Use customer-managed keys to manage the encryption at rest of your Batch account's data. By default, customer data is encrypted with service-managed keys, but customer-managed keys are commonly required to meet regulatory compliance standards. Customer-managed keys enable the data to be encrypted with an Azure Key Vault key created and owned by you. You have full control and responsibility for the key lifecycle, including rotation and management. Learn more at https://aka.ms/Batch-CMK. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: 99e9ccd8-3db9-4592-b0d1-14b1715a4d8a | |
| Security Center | 47a6b606-51aa-4496-8bb7-64b11cf66adc | Adaptive application controls for defining safe applications should be enabled on your machines | Enable application controls to define the list of known-safe applications running on your machines, and alert you when other applications run. This helps harden your machines against malware. To simplify the process of configuring and maintaining your rules, Security Center uses machine learning to analyze the applications running on each machine and suggest the list of known-safe applications. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Major (2.0.0 > 3.0.0) | |
| Security Center | 5c607a2e-c700-4744-8254-d77e7c9eb5e4 | External accounts with write permissions should be removed from your subscription | External accounts with write privileges should be removed from your subscription in order to prevent unmonitored access. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Major (2.0.0 > 3.0.0) | |
| Security Center | e8cbc669-f12d-49eb-93e7-9273119e9933 | Vulnerabilities in container security configurations should be remediated | Audit vulnerabilities in security configuration on machines with Docker installed and display as recommendations in Azure Security Center. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Major (2.0.0 > 3.0.0) | |
| Security Center | 5f0f936f-2f01-4bf5-b6be-d423792fa562 | Container registry images should have vulnerability findings resolved | Container image vulnerability assessment scans your registry for security vulnerabilities and exposes detailed findings for each image. Resolving the vulnerabilities can greatly improve your containers' security posture and protect them from attacks. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) | |
| Security Center | feedbf84-6b99-488c-acc2-71c829aa5ffc | SQL databases should have vulnerability findings resolved | Monitor vulnerability assessment scan results and recommendations for how to remediate database vulnerabilities. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Major (3.0.0 > 4.0.0) | |
| Security Center | 6ba6d016-e7c3-4842-b8f2-4992ebc0d72d | SQL servers on machines should have vulnerability findings resolved | SQL vulnerability assessment scans your database for security vulnerabilities, and exposes any deviations from best practices such as misconfigurations, excessive permissions, and unprotected sensitive data. Resolving the vulnerabilities found can greatly improve your database security posture. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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add: 6ba6d016-e7c3-4842-b8f2-4992ebc0d72d | |
| Security Center | 09024ccc-0c5f-475e-9457-b7c0d9ed487b | 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. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Major (2.0.0 > 3.0.0) | |
| Security Center | f8456c1c-aa66-4dfb-861a-25d127b775c9 | External accounts with owner permissions should be removed from your subscription | External accounts with owner permissions should be removed from your subscription in order to prevent unmonitored access. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Major (2.0.0 > 3.0.0) | |
| Monitoring | 6fc8115b-2008-441f-8c61-9b722c1e537f | Workbooks should be saved to storage accounts that you control | With bring your own storage (BYOS), your workbooks are uploaded into a storage account that you control. That means you control the encryption-at-rest policy, the lifetime management policy, and network access. You will, however, be responsible for the costs associated with that storage account. For more information, visit https://aka.ms/workbooksByos | Default: audit Allowed: (deny, audit, disabled) |
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add: 6fc8115b-2008-441f-8c61-9b722c1e537f | |
| Security Center | e1e5fd5d-3e4c-4ce1-8661-7d1873ae6b15 | Vulnerabilities in security configuration on your machines should be remediated | Servers which do not satisfy the configured baseline will be monitored by Azure Security Center as recommendations | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Major (2.0.0 > 3.0.0) | |
| Security Center | 123a3936-f020-408a-ba0c-47873faf1534 | Allowlist rules in your adaptive application control policy should be updated | Monitor for changes in behavior on groups of machines configured for auditing by Azure Security Center's adaptive application controls. Security Center uses machine learning to analyze the running processes on your machines and suggest a list of known-safe applications. These are presented as recommended apps to allow in adaptive application control policies. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Major (2.0.0 > 3.0.0) | |
| Security Center | 86b3d65f-7626-441e-b690-81a8b71cff60 | System updates should be installed on your machines | Missing security system updates on your servers will be monitored by Azure Security Center as recommendations | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Major (2.0.0 > 3.0.0) | |
| Security Center | af6cd1bd-1635-48cb-bde7-5b15693900b9 | Monitor missing Endpoint Protection in Azure Security Center | Servers without an installed Endpoint Protection agent will be monitored by Azure Security Center as recommendations | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Major (2.0.0 > 3.0.0) | |
| Security Center | aa633080-8b72-40c4-a2d7-d00c03e80bed | MFA should be enabled on accounts with owner permissions on your subscription | Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) should be enabled for all subscription accounts with owner permissions to prevent a breach of accounts or resources. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Major (2.0.0 > 3.0.0) | |
| Security Center | cc9835f2-9f6b-4cc8-ab4a-f8ef615eb349 | [Preview]: Sensitive data in your SQL databases should be classified | Azure Security Center monitors the data discovery and classification scan results for your SQL databases and provides recommendations to classify the sensitive data in your databases for better monitoring and security | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Cosmos DB | 862e97cf-49fc-4a5c-9de4-40d4e2e7c8eb | Azure Cosmos DB accounts should have firewall rules | Firewall rules should be defined on your Azure Cosmos DB accounts to prevent traffic from unauthorized sources. Accounts that have at least one IP rule defined with the virtual network filter enabled are deemed compliant. Accounts disabling public access are also deemed compliant. | Default: Deny Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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| Security Center | ebb62a0c-3560-49e1-89ed-27e074e9f8ad | Deprecated accounts with owner permissions should be removed from your subscription | Deprecated accounts with owner permissions should be removed from your subscription. Deprecated accounts are accounts that have been blocked from signing in. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Security Center | 9daedab3-fb2d-461e-b861-71790eead4f6 | 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. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Security Center | bb91dfba-c30d-4263-9add-9c2384e659a6 | 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 | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Azure Stack Edge | b4ac1030-89c5-4697-8e00-28b5ba6a8811 | Azure Stack Edge devices should use double-encryption | To secure the data at rest on the device, ensure it's double-encrypted, the access to data is controlled, and once the device is deactivated, the data is securely erased off the data disks. Double encryption is the use of two layers of encryption: BitLocker XTS-AES 256-bit encryption on the data volumes and built-in encryption of the hard drives. Learn more in the security overview documentation for the specific Stack Edge device. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Security Center | 760a85ff-6162-42b3-8d70-698e268f648c | [Deprecated]: Vulnerabilities should be remediated by a Vulnerability Assessment solution | Monitors vulnerabilities detected by Vulnerability Assessment solution and VMs without a Vulnerability Assessment solution in Azure Security Center as recommendations. | Default: Disabled Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Security Center | a7aca53f-2ed4-4466-a25e-0b45ade68efd | Azure DDoS Protection Standard should be enabled | DDoS protection standard should be enabled for all virtual networks with a subnet that is part of an application gateway with a public IP. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Security Center | bd352bd5-2853-4985-bf0d-73806b4a5744 | 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. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Security Center | 3c735d8a-a4ba-4a3a-b7cf-db7754cf57f4 | Vulnerabilities in security configuration on your virtual machine scale sets should be remediated | Audit the OS vulnerabilities on your virtual machine scale sets to protect them from attacks. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Security Center | 08e6af2d-db70-460a-bfe9-d5bd474ba9d6 | Adaptive network hardening recommendations should be applied on internet facing virtual machines | Azure Security Center analyzes the traffic patterns of Internet facing virtual machines and provides Network Security Group rule recommendations that reduce the potential attack surface | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Security Center | e3576e28-8b17-4677-84c3-db2990658d64 | MFA should be enabled on accounts with read permissions on your subscription | Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) should be enabled for all subscription accounts with read privileges to prevent a breach of accounts or resources. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Security Center | c3f317a7-a95c-4547-b7e7-11017ebdf2fe | System updates on virtual machine scale sets should be installed | Audit whether there are any missing system security updates and critical updates that should be installed to ensure that your Windows and Linux virtual machine scale sets are secure. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Bot Service | 6164527b-e1ee-4882-8673-572f425f5e0a | Bot Service endpoint should be a valid HTTPS URI | Data can be tampered with during transmission. Protocols exist that provide encryption to address problems of misuse and tampering. To ensure your bots are communicating only over encrypted channels, set the endpoint to a valid HTTPS URI. This ensures the HTTPS protocol is used to encrypt your data in transit and is also often a requirement for compliance with regulatory or industry standards. Please visit: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/bot-service/bot-builder-security-guidelines. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Security Center | 26a828e1-e88f-464e-bbb3-c134a282b9de | Endpoint protection solution should be installed on virtual machine scale sets | Audit the existence and health of an endpoint protection solution on your virtual machines scale sets, to protect them from threats and vulnerabilities. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Security Center | 6b1cbf55-e8b6-442f-ba4c-7246b6381474 | Deprecated accounts should be removed from your subscription | Deprecated accounts should be removed from your subscriptions. Deprecated accounts are accounts that have been blocked from signing in. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Security Center | b0f33259-77d7-4c9e-aac6-3aabcfae693c | 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 | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Security Center | 22730e10-96f6-4aac-ad84-9383d35b5917 | 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. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Security Center | 9297c21d-2ed6-4474-b48f-163f75654ce3 | MFA should be enabled accounts with write permissions on your subscription | Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) should be enabled for all subscription accounts with write privileges to prevent a breach of accounts or resources. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Storage | 4fa4b6c0-31ca-4c0d-b10d-24b96f62a751 | [Preview]: 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. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Guest Configuration | 5fc23db3-dd4d-4c56-bcc7-43626243e601 | [Deprecated]: Audit Windows virtual machines on which the Windows Guest Configuration extension is not enabled | This policy audits Windows virtual machines hosted in Azure that are supported by Guest Configuration but do not have the Guest Configuration extension enabled. For more information on Guest Configuration, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Security Center | 0b15565f-aa9e-48ba-8619-45960f2c314d | 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. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Kubernetes | 975ce327-682c-4f2e-aa46-b9598289b86c | Kubernetes cluster containers should only use allowed seccomp profiles | Pod containers can only use allowed seccomp profiles in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| SQL | d9844e8a-1437-4aeb-a32c-0c992f056095 | Public network access should be disabled for MySQL servers | Disable the public network access property to improve security and ensure your Azure Database for MySQL can only be accessed from a private endpoint. This configuration strictly disables access from any public address space outside of Azure IP range, and denies all logins that match IP or virtual network-based firewall rules. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
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| Kubernetes | 1a5b4dca-0b6f-4cf5-907c-56316bc1bf3d | 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 AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more info, visit https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Machine Learning | 40cec1dd-a100-4920-b15b-3024fe8901ab | Azure Machine Learning workspaces 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 Azure Machine Learning workspaces, data leakage risks are reduced. Learn more about private links at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/machine-learning/how-to-configure-private-link. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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| Key Vault | 5f0bc445-3935-4915-9981-011aa2b46147 | [Preview]: Private endpoint should be configured for Key Vault | Private link provides a way to connect Key Vault to your Azure resources without sending traffic over the public internet. Private link provides defense in depth protection against data exfiltration. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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| App Service | eaebaea7-8013-4ceb-9d14-7eb32271373c | 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 with valid certificates will be able to reach the app. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
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| Event Grid | 9830b652-8523-49cc-b1b3-e17dce1127ca | Azure Event Grid domains 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 Event Grid domain instead of the entire service, you'll also be protected against data leakage risks. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/privateendpoints. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
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| Kubernetes | 3fc4dc25-5baf-40d8-9b05-7fe74c1bc64e | Kubernetes clusters should use internal load balancers | Use internal load balancers to make a Kubernetes service accessible only to applications running in the same virtual network as the Kubernetes cluster. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| VM Image Builder | 2154edb9-244f-4741-9970-660785bccdaa | 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. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled, Deny) |
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| SQL | 1b8ca024-1d5c-4dec-8995-b1a932b41780 | Public network access on Azure SQL Database should be disabled | Disabling the public network access property improves security by ensuring your Azure SQL Database can only be accessed from a private endpoint. This configuration denies all logins that match IP or virtual network based firewall rules. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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| Security Center | 6e2593d9-add6-4083-9c9b-4b7d2188c899 | Email notification for high severity alerts should be enabled | To ensure the relevant people in your organization are notified when there is a potential security breach in one of your subscriptions, enable email notifications for high severity alerts in Security Center. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Kubernetes | 82985f06-dc18-4a48-bc1c-b9f4f0098cfe | Kubernetes cluster pods should only use approved host network and port range | Restrict pod access to the host network and the allowable host port range in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of CIS 5.2.4 which is intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| SQL | 048248b0-55cd-46da-b1ff-39efd52db260 | [Deprecated]: SQL managed instances should use customer-managed keys to encrypt data at rest | This policy is deprecated. Please use /providers/Microsoft.Authorization/policyDefinitions/ac01ad65-10e5-46df-bdd9-6b0cad13e1d2 instead | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Storage | 2a1a9cdf-e04d-429a-8416-3bfb72a1b26f | 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. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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| Cache | 7d092e0a-7acd-40d2-a975-dca21cae48c4 | Azure Cache for Redis should reside within a virtual network | Azure Virtual Network deployment provides enhanced security and isolation for your Azure Cache for Redis, as well as subnets, access control policies, and other features to further restrict access.When an Azure Cache for Redis instance is configured with a virtual network, it is not publicly addressable and can only be accessed from virtual machines and applications within the virtual network. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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| Cosmos DB | 1f905d99-2ab7-462c-a6b0-f709acca6c8f | Azure Cosmos DB accounts should use customer-managed keys to encrypt data at rest | Use customer-managed keys to manage the encryption at rest of your Azure Cosmos DB. By default, the data is encrypted at rest with service-managed keys, but customer-managed keys are commonly required to meet regulatory compliance standards. Customer-managed keys enable the data to be encrypted with an Azure Key Vault key created and owned by you. You have full control and responsibility for the key lifecycle, including rotation and management. Learn more at https://aka.ms/cosmosdb-cmk. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Container Registry | d0793b48-0edc-4296-a390-4c75d1bdfd71 | Container registries should not allow unrestricted network access | Azure container registries by default accept connections over the internet from hosts on any network. To protect your registries from potential threats, allow access from only specific public IP addresses or address ranges. If your registry doesn't have an IP/firewall rule or a configured virtual network, it will appear in the unhealthy resources. Learn more about Container Registry network rules here: https://aka.ms/acr/portal/public-network and here https://aka.ms/acr/vnet. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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| Security Center | ae89ebca-1c92-4898-ac2c-9f63decb045c | 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. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Guest Configuration | faf25c8c-9598-4305-b4de-0aee1317fb31 | [Deprecated]: Audit Linux virtual machines on which the Linux Guest Configuration extension is not enabled | This policy audits Linux virtual machines hosted in Azure that are supported by Guest Configuration but do not have the Guest Configuration extension enabled. For more information on Guest Configuration, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Key Vault | 98728c90-32c7-4049-8429-847dc0f4fe37 | Key Vault secrets should have an expiration date | Secrets should have a defined expiration date and not be permanent. Secrets that are valid forever provide a potential attacker with more time to compromise them. It is a recommended security practice to set expiration dates on secrets. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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| Kubernetes | 440b515e-a580-421e-abeb-b159a61ddcbc | [Deprecated]: Kubernetes cluster containers should only listen on allowed ports | Restrict containers to listen only on allowed ports to secure access to the Kubernetes cluster. The policy is deprecating since container port is only informative field which cannot decide the port container is actually using. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Security Center | cdfcce10-4578-4ecd-9703-530938e4abcb | Deploy export to Event Hub for Azure Security Center data | Enable export to Event Hub of Azure Security Center data. This policy deploys an export to Event Hub 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. | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
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| Kubernetes | b2fd3e59-6390-4f2b-8247-ea676bd03e2d | [Deprecated]: Enforce unique ingress hostnames across namespaces in Kubernetes cluster | This policy enforces unique ingress hostnames across namespaces in a Kubernetes cluster. For instructions on using this policy, please go to https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| SQL | 0d134df8-db83-46fb-ad72-fe0c9428c8dd | [Deprecated]: SQL servers should use customer-managed keys to encrypt data at rest | This policy is deprecated. Please use /providers/Microsoft.Authorization/policyDefinitions/0a370ff3-6cab-4e85-8995-295fd854c5b8 instead. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Kubernetes | df49d893-a74c-421d-bc95-c663042e5b80 | 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 AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Kubernetes | e345eecc-fa47-480f-9e88-67dcc122b164 | Kubernetes cluster containers CPU and memory resource limits should not exceed the specified limits | Enforce container CPU and memory resource limits to prevent resource exhaustion attacks in a Kubernetes cluster. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Kubernetes | 098fc59e-46c7-4d99-9b16-64990e543d75 | 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 recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Kubernetes | febd0533-8e55-448f-b837-bd0e06f16469 | 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. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Container Registry | 5b9159ae-1701-4a6f-9a7a-aa9c8ddd0580 | Container registries should be encrypted with a customer-managed key | Use customer-managed keys to manage the encryption at rest of the contents of your registries. By default, the data is encrypted at rest with service-managed keys, but customer-managed keys are commonly required to meet regulatory compliance standards. Customer-managed keys enable the data to be encrypted with an Azure Key Vault key created and owned by you. You have full control and responsibility for the key lifecycle, including rotation and management. Learn more at https://aka.ms/acr/CMK. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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| Machine Learning | ba769a63-b8cc-4b2d-abf6-ac33c7204be8 | Azure Machine Learning workspaces should be encrypted with a customer-managed key | Manage encryption at rest of Azure Machine Learning workspace data with customer-managed keys. By default, customer data is encrypted with service-managed keys, but customer-managed keys are commonly required to meet regulatory compliance standards. Customer-managed keys enable the data to be encrypted with an Azure Key Vault key created and owned by you. You have full control and responsibility for the key lifecycle, including rotation and management. Learn more at https://aka.ms/azureml-workspaces-cmk. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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| Security Center | 475aae12-b88a-4572-8b36-9b712b2b3a17 | Auto provisioning of the Log Analytics agent should be enabled on your subscription | To monitor for security vulnerabilities and threats, Azure Security Center collects data from your Azure virtual machines. Data is collected by the Log Analytics agent, formerly known as the Microsoft Monitoring Agent (MMA), which reads various security-related configurations and event logs from the machine and copies the data to your Log Analytics workspace for analysis. We recommend enabling auto provisioning to automatically deploy the agent to all supported Azure VMs and any new ones that are created. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| SQL | b52376f7-9612-48a1-81cd-1ffe4b61032c | Public network access should be disabled for PostgreSQL servers | Disable the public network access property to improve security and ensure your Azure Database for PostgreSQL can only be accessed from a private endpoint. This configuration disables access from any public address space outside of Azure IP range, and denies all logins that match IP or virtual network-based firewall rules. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
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| Key Vault | 55615ac9-af46-4a59-874e-391cc3dfb490 | [Preview]: Azure Key Vault should disable public network access | Disable public network access for your key vault so that it's not accessible over the public internet. This can reduce data leakage risks. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/akvprivatelink. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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| Security Center | 4f4f78b8-e367-4b10-a341-d9a4ad5cf1c7 | 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. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Patch (1.0.0 > 1.0.1) | |
| Kubernetes | 233a2a17-77ca-4fb1-9b6b-69223d272a44 | 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 AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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change: Major (4.0.1 > 5.0.1) | |
| Kubernetes | 47a1ee2f-2a2a-4576-bf2a-e0e36709c2b8 | Kubernetes cluster containers should not share host process ID or host IPC namespace | Block pod containers from sharing the host process ID namespace and host IPC namespace in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of CIS 5.2.2 and CIS 5.2.3 which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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change: Major (1.0.1 > 2.0.1) | |
| Kubernetes | f4a8fce0-2dd5-4c21-9a36-8f0ec809d663 | Kubernetes cluster pod FlexVolume volumes should only use allowed drivers | Pod FlexVolume volumes should only use allowed drivers in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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change: Major (1.0.1 > 2.0.1) | |
| SQL | 89099bee-89e0-4b26-a5f4-165451757743 | 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. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) | |
| Network | 564feb30-bf6a-4854-b4bb-0d2d2d1e6c66 | 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. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2020-12-11 15:42:52
change: Patch (1.0.0 > 1.0.1) | |
| Container Registry | e8eef0a8-67cf-4eb4-9386-14b0e78733d4 | Container registries 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 container registries instead of the entire service, you'll also be protected against data leakage risks. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/acr/private-link. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
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change: Patch (1.0.0 > 1.0.1) | |
| Kubernetes | 9f061a12-e40d-4183-a00e-171812443373 | 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. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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add: 9f061a12-e40d-4183-a00e-171812443373 | |
| Security Center | d26f7642-7545-4e18-9b75-8c9bbdee3a9a | 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 | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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add: d26f7642-7545-4e18-9b75-8c9bbdee3a9a | |
| SQL | 18adea5e-f416-4d0f-8aa8-d24321e3e274 | PostgreSQL servers should use customer-managed keys to encrypt data at rest | Use customer-managed keys to manage the encryption at rest of your PostgreSQL servers. By default, the data is encrypted at rest with service-managed keys, but customer-managed keys are commonly required to meet regulatory compliance standards. Customer-managed keys enable the data to be encrypted with an Azure Key Vault key created and owned by you. You have full control and responsibility for the key lifecycle, including rotation and management. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2020-12-11 15:42:52
change: Patch (1.0.1 > 1.0.2) | |
| Kubernetes | 511f5417-5d12-434d-ab2e-816901e72a5e | Kubernetes cluster containers should only use allowed AppArmor profiles | Containers should only use allowed AppArmor profiles in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2020-12-11 15:42:52
change: Major (1.0.1 > 2.0.1) | |
| Kubernetes | e1e6c427-07d9-46ab-9689-bfa85431e636 | Kubernetes cluster pods and containers should only use allowed SELinux options | Pods and containers should only use allowed SELinux options in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2020-12-11 15:42:52
change: Major (2.0.1 > 3.0.1) | |
| Data Box | 86efb160-8de7-451d-bc08-5d475b0aadae | Azure Data Box jobs should use a customer-managed key to encrypt the device unlock password | Use a customer-managed key to control the encryption of the device unlock password for Azure Data Box. Customer-managed keys also help manage access to the device unlock password by the Data Box service in order to prepare the device and copy data in an automated manner. The data on the device itself is already encrypted at rest with Advanced Encryption Standard 256-bit encryption, and the device unlock password is encrypted by default with a Microsoft managed key. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2020-12-11 15:42:52
add: 86efb160-8de7-451d-bc08-5d475b0aadae | |
| SQL | 7698e800-9299-47a6-b3b6-5a0fee576eed | Private endpoint connections on Azure SQL Database should be enabled | Private endpoint connections enforce secure communication by enabling private connectivity to Azure SQL Database. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
2020-12-11 15:42:52
change: Patch (1.0.0 > 1.0.1) | |
| Key Vault | 1e66c121-a66a-4b1f-9b83-0fd99bf0fc2d | Key vaults should have soft delete enabled | Deleting a key vault without soft delete enabled permanently deletes all secrets, keys, and certificates stored in the key vault. Accidental deletion of a key vault can lead to permanent data loss. Soft delete allows you to recover an accidentally deleted key vault for a configurable retention period. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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change: Patch (1.0.0 > 1.0.1) | |
| Kubernetes | f85eb0dd-92ee-40e9-8a76-db25a507d6d3 | Kubernetes cluster containers should only use allowed ProcMountType | Pod containers can only use allowed ProcMountTypes in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2020-12-11 15:42:52
change: Major (2.0.1 > 3.0.1) | |
| SignalR | 53503636-bcc9-4748-9663-5348217f160f | Azure SignalR Service 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 Azure SignalR Service resource instead of the entire service, you'll reduce your data leakage risks. Learn more about private links at: https://aka.ms/asrs/privatelink. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2020-12-11 15:42:52
change: Patch (1.0.0 > 1.0.1) | |
| SQL | fdccbe47-f3e3-4213-ad5d-ea459b2fa077 | Public network access should be disabled for MariaDB servers | Disable the public network access property to improve security and ensure your Azure Database for MariaDB can only be accessed from a private endpoint. This configuration strictly disables access from any public address space outside of Azure IP range, and denies all logins that match IP or virtual network-based firewall rules. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
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change: Patch (1.0.1 > 1.0.2) | |
| Kubernetes | f06ddb64-5fa3-4b77-b166-acb36f7f6042 | 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 recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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change: Major (1.0.1 > 2.0.1) | |
| Kubernetes | 16697877-1118-4fb1-9b65-9898ec2509ec | Kubernetes cluster pods should only use allowed volume types | Pods can only use allowed volume types in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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change: Major (1.0.1 > 2.0.1) | |
| Kubernetes | 1c6e92c9-99f0-4e55-9cf2-0c234dc48f99 | Kubernetes clusters should not allow container privilege escalation | Do not allow containers to run with privilege escalation to root in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of CIS 5.2.5 which is intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2020-12-11 15:42:52
change: Major (1.0.1 > 2.0.1) | |
| Kubernetes | 423dd1ba-798e-40e4-9c4d-b6902674b423 | Kubernetes clusters should disable automounting API credentials | Disable automounting API credentials to prevent a potentially compromised Pod resource to run API commands against Kubernetes clusters. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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add: 423dd1ba-798e-40e4-9c4d-b6902674b423 | |
| Key Vault | 152b15f7-8e1f-4c1f-ab71-8c010ba5dbc0 | Key Vault keys should have an expiration date | Cryptographic keys should have a defined expiration date and not be permanent. Keys that are valid forever provide a potential attacker with more time to compromise the key. It is a recommended security practice to set expiration dates on cryptographic keys. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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| Kubernetes | c26596ff-4d70-4e6a-9a30-c2506bd2f80c | 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 AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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change: Major (1.0.1 > 2.0.1) | |
| Cognitive Services | 67121cc7-ff39-4ab8-b7e3-95b84dab487d | Cognitive Services accounts should enable data encryption with a customer-managed key | Customer-managed keys are commonly required to meet regulatory compliance standards. Customer-managed keys enable the data stored in Cognitive Services to be encrypted with an Azure Key Vault key created and owned by you. You have full control and responsibility for the key lifecycle, including rotation and management. Learn more about customer-managed keys at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2121321. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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change: Patch (1.0.1 > 1.0.2) | |
| SQL | d38fc420-0735-4ef3-ac11-c806f651a570 | Long-term geo-redundant backup should be enabled for Azure SQL Databases | This policy audits any Azure SQL Database with long-term geo-redundant backup not enabled. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) | |
| Data Box | c349d81b-9985-44ae-a8da-ff98d108ede8 | Azure Data Box jobs should enable double encryption for data at rest on the device | Enable a second layer of software-based encryption for data at rest on the device. The device is already protected via Advanced Encryption Standard 256-bit encryption for data at rest. This option adds a second layer of data encryption. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: c349d81b-9985-44ae-a8da-ff98d108ede8 | |
| Kubernetes | 7d7be79c-23ba-4033-84dd-45e2a5ccdd67 | Both operating systems and data disks in Azure Kubernetes Service clusters should be encrypted by customer-managed keys | Encrypting OS and data disks using customer-managed keys provides more control and greater flexibility in key management. This is a common requirement in many regulatory and industry compliance standards. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: 7d7be79c-23ba-4033-84dd-45e2a5ccdd67 | |
| Key Vault | 0a075868-4c26-42ef-914c-5bc007359560 | [Preview]: Certificates should have the specified maximum validity period | Manage your organizational compliance requirements by specifying the maximum amount of time that a certificate can be valid within your key vault. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2020-12-11 15:42:52
change: Minor, suffix remains equal (2.0.0-preview > 2.1.0-preview) | |
| Event Grid | 4b90e17e-8448-49db-875e-bd83fb6f804f | Azure Event Grid topics 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 Event Grid topic instead of the entire service, you'll also be protected against data leakage risks. Learn more at: https://aka.ms/privateendpoints. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
2020-12-11 15:42:52
change: Patch (1.0.0 > 1.0.1) | |
| Security Center | ffb6f416-7bd2-4488-8828-56585fef2be9 | Deploy export to Log Analytics workspace for Azure Security Center data | Enable export to Log Analytics workspace of Azure Security Center data. This policy deploys an export to Log Analytics workspace configuration with your conditions and target workspace 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. | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
2020-12-11 15:42:52
change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) |
| Kubernetes | 46592696-4c7b-4bf3-9e45-6c2763bdc0a6 | Kubernetes cluster pods should use specified labels | Use specified labels to identify the pods in a Kubernetes cluster. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2020-12-11 15:42:52
change: Major (4.0.1 > 5.0.1) | |
| Storage | 6fac406b-40ca-413b-bf8e-0bf964659c25 | 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. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
2020-12-11 15:42:52
change: Patch (1.0.0 > 1.0.1) | |
| Key Vault | 0b60c0b2-2dc2-4e1c-b5c9-abbed971de53 | Key vaults should have purge protection enabled | Malicious deletion of a key vault can lead to permanent data loss. A malicious insider in your organization can potentially delete and purge key vaults. Purge protection protects you from insider attacks by enforcing a mandatory retention period for soft deleted key vaults. No one inside your organization or Microsoft will be able to purge your key vaults during the soft delete retention period. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2020-12-11 15:42:52
change: Patch (1.1.0 > 1.1.1) | |
| App Configuration | ca610c1d-041c-4332-9d88-7ed3094967c7 | 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. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2020-12-11 15:42:52
change: Patch (1.0.1 > 1.0.2) | |
| Kubernetes | a27c700f-8a22-44ec-961c-41625264370b | Kubernetes clusters should not use specific security capabilities | Prevent specific security capabilities in Kubernetes clusters to prevent ungranted privileges on the Pod resource. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2020-12-11 15:42:52
add: a27c700f-8a22-44ec-961c-41625264370b | |
| Kubernetes | 56d0a13f-712f-466b-8416-56fb354fb823 | Kubernetes cluster containers should not use forbidden sysctl interfaces | Containers should not use forbidden sysctl interfaces in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2020-12-11 15:42:52
change: Major (2.0.1 > 3.0.1) | |
| SQL | 83cef61d-dbd1-4b20-a4fc-5fbc7da10833 | MySQL servers should use customer-managed keys to encrypt data at rest | Use customer-managed keys to manage the encryption at rest of your MySQL servers. By default, the data is encrypted at rest with service-managed keys, but customer-managed keys are commonly required to meet regulatory compliance standards. Customer-managed keys enable the data to be encrypted with an Azure Key Vault key created and owned by you. You have full control and responsibility for the key lifecycle, including rotation and management. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2020-12-11 15:42:52
change: Patch (1.0.1 > 1.0.2) | |
| Kubernetes | 95edb821-ddaf-4404-9732-666045e056b4 | 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 AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2020-12-11 15:42:52
change: Major (4.0.1 > 5.0.1) | |
| Network | 055aa869-bc98-4af8-bafc-23f1ab6ffe2c | Azure Web Application Firewall should be enabled for Azure Front Door entry-points | 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. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2020-12-11 15:42:52
change: Patch (1.0.0 > 1.0.1) | |
| Tags | 96d9a89c-0d67-41fc-899d-2b9599f76a24 | Add a tag to subscriptions | Adds the specified tag and value to subscriptions via a remediation task. If the tag exists with a different value it will not be changed. See https://aka.ms/azurepolicyremediation for more information on policy remediation. | Fixed: modify | Tag Contributor |
2020-11-17 14:39:37
add: 96d9a89c-0d67-41fc-899d-2b9599f76a24 |
| Synapse | 72d11df1-dd8a-41f7-8925-b05b960ebafc | Azure Synapse workspaces 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 Azure Synapse workspace, data leakage risks are reduced. Learn more about private links at: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics/security/how-to-connect-to-workspace-with-private-links. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
2020-11-17 14:39:37
add: 72d11df1-dd8a-41f7-8925-b05b960ebafc | |
| Security Center | 08e6af2d-db70-460a-bfe9-d5bd474ba9d6 | Adaptive network hardening recommendations should be applied on internet facing virtual machines | Azure Security Center analyzes the traffic patterns of Internet facing virtual machines and provides Network Security Group rule recommendations that reduce the potential attack surface | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2020-11-17 14:39:37
change: Patch (2.0.0 > 2.0.1) | |
| Synapse | 2d9dbfa3-927b-4cf0-9d0f-08747f971650 | Managed workspace virtual network on Azure Synapse workspaces should be enabled | Enabling a managed workspace virtual network ensures that your workspace is network isolated from other workspaces. Data integration and Spark resources deployed in this virtual network also provides user level isolation for Spark activities. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2020-11-17 14:39:37
add: 2d9dbfa3-927b-4cf0-9d0f-08747f971650 | |
| Tags | 61a4d60b-7326-440e-8051-9f94394d4dd1 | Add or replace a tag on subscriptions | Adds or replaces the specified tag and value on subscriptions via a remediation task. Existing resource groups can be remediated by triggering a remediation task. See https://aka.ms/azurepolicyremediation for more information on policy remediation. | Fixed: modify | Tag Contributor |
2020-11-17 14:39:37
add: 61a4d60b-7326-440e-8051-9f94394d4dd1 |
| Synapse | f7d52b2d-e161-4dfa-a82b-55e564167385 | Azure Synapse workspaces should use customer-managed keys to encrypt data at rest | Use customer-managed keys to control the encryption at rest of the data stored in Azure Synapse workspaces. Customer-managed keys deliver double encryption by adding a second layer of encryption on top of the default encryption with service-managed keys. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2020-11-17 14:39:37
add: f7d52b2d-e161-4dfa-a82b-55e564167385 | |
| Synapse | 56fd377d-098c-4f02-8406-81eb055902b8 | IP firewall rules on Azure Synapse workspaces should be removed | Removing all IP firewall rules improves security by ensuring your Azure Synapse workspace can only be accessed from a private endpoint. This configuration audits creation of firewall rules that allow public network access on the workspace. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
2020-11-17 14:39:37
add: 56fd377d-098c-4f02-8406-81eb055902b8 | |
| API for FHIR | 1ee56206-5dd1-42ab-b02d-8aae8b1634ce | Azure API for FHIR should use private link | Azure API for FHIR should have at least one approved private endpoint connection. Clients in a virtual network can securely access resources that have private endpoint connections through private links. For more information, visit: https://aka.ms/fhir-privatelink. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
2020-11-10 16:00:42
add: 1ee56206-5dd1-42ab-b02d-8aae8b1634ce | |
| Azure Data Explorer | 81e74cea-30fd-40d5-802f-d72103c2aaaa | Azure Data Explorer encryption at rest should use a customer-managed key | Enabling encryption at rest using a customer-managed key on your Azure Data Explorer cluster provides additional control over the key being used by the encryption at rest. This feature is oftentimes applicable to customers with special compliance requirements and requires a Key Vault to managing the keys. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2020-11-10 16:00:42
add: 81e74cea-30fd-40d5-802f-d72103c2aaaa | |
| Backup | 345fa903-145c-4fe1-8bcd-93ec2adccde8 | Configure backup on virtual machines with a given tag to an existing recovery services vault in the same location | Enforce backup for all virtual machines by backing them up to an existing central recovery services vault in the same location and subscription as the virtual machine. Doing this is useful when there is a central team in your organization managing backups for all resources in a subscription. You can optionally include virtual machines containing a specified tag to control the scope of assignment. See https://aka.ms/AzureVMCentralBackupIncludeTag. | Default: deployIfNotExists Allowed: (deployIfNotExists, auditIfNotExists, disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor Backup Contributor |
2020-11-10 16:00:42
add: 345fa903-145c-4fe1-8bcd-93ec2adccde8 |
| Azure Data Explorer | f4b53539-8df9-40e4-86c6-6b607703bd4e | Disk encryption should be enabled on Azure Data Explorer | Enabling disk encryption helps protect and safeguard your data to meet your organizational security and compliance commitments. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2020-11-10 16:00:42
add: f4b53539-8df9-40e4-86c6-6b607703bd4e | |
| Storage | 4fa4b6c0-31ca-4c0d-b10d-24b96f62a751 | [Preview]: 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. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2020-11-10 16:00:42
change: Major, suffix remains equal (1.0.1-preview > 2.0.0-preview) | |
| App Configuration | 967a4b4b-2da9-43c1-b7d0-f98d0d74d0b1 | App Configuration should use a customer-managed key | Customer-managed keys provide enhanced data protection by allowing you to manage your encryption keys. This is often required to meet compliance requirements. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2020-11-10 16:00:42
change: Minor (1.0.1 > 1.1.0) | |
| Security Center | feedbf84-6b99-488c-acc2-71c829aa5ffc | SQL databases should have vulnerability findings resolved | Monitor vulnerability assessment scan results and recommendations for how to remediate database vulnerabilities. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2020-11-10 16:00:42
change: Major (2.0.0 > 3.0.0) | |
| Backup | 83644c87-93dd-49fe-bf9f-6aff8fd0834e | Configure backup on virtual machines with a given tag to a new recovery services vault with a default policy | Enforce backup for all virtual machines by deploying a recovery services vault in the same location and resource group as the virtual machine. Doing this is useful when different application teams in your organization are allocated separate resource groups and need to manage their own backups and restores. You can optionally include virtual machines containing a specified tag to control the scope of assignment. See https://aka.ms/AzureVMAppCentricBackupIncludeTag. | Default: deployIfNotExists Allowed: (deployIfNotExists, auditIfNotExists, disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor Backup Contributor |
2020-11-10 16:00:42
add: 83644c87-93dd-49fe-bf9f-6aff8fd0834e |
| Backup | 09ce66bc-1220-4153-8104-e3f51c936913 | Configure backup on virtual machines without a given tag to an existing recovery services vault in the same location | Enforce backup for all virtual machines by backing them up to an existing central recovery services vault in the same location and subscription as the virtual machine. Doing this is useful when there is a central team in your organization managing backups for all resources in a subscription. You can optionally exclude virtual machines containing a specified tag to control the scope of assignment. See https://aka.ms/AzureVMCentralBackupExcludeTag. | Default: deployIfNotExists Allowed: (deployIfNotExists, auditIfNotExists, disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor Backup Contributor |
2020-11-10 16:00:42
change: Minor (1.0.0 > 1.1.0) |
| Portal | 04c655fe-0ac7-48ae-9a32-3a2e208c7624 | Shared dashboards should not have markdown tiles with inline content | Disallow creating a shared dashboard that has inline content in markdown tiles and enforce that the content should be stored as a markdown file that's hosted online. If you use inline content in the markdown tile, you cannot manage encryption of the content. By configuring your own storage, you can encrypt, double encrypt and even bring your own keys. Enabling this policy restricts users to use 2020-09-01-preview or above version of shared dashboards REST API. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2020-11-10 16:00:42
add: 04c655fe-0ac7-48ae-9a32-3a2e208c7624 | |
| Monitoring | 053d3325-282c-4e5c-b944-24faffd30d77 | Deploy Log Analytics extension for Linux VMs | Deploy Log Analytics extension for Linux VMs if the VM Image (OS) is in the list defined and the extension is not installed. | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Log Analytics Contributor |
2020-11-10 16:00:42
change: Major (1.2.0 > 2.0.0) |
| Backup | 98d0b9f8-fd90-49c9-88e2-d3baf3b0dd86 | Configure backup on virtual machines without a given tag to a new recovery services vault with a default policy | Enforce backup for all virtual machines by deploying a recovery services vault in the same location and resource group as the virtual machine. Doing this is useful when different application teams in your organization are allocated separate resource groups and need to manage their own backups and restores. You can optionally exclude virtual machines containing a specified tag to control the scope of assignment. See https://aka.ms/AzureVMAppCentricBackupExcludeTag. | Default: deployIfNotExists Allowed: (deployIfNotExists, auditIfNotExists, disabled) | Virtual Machine Contributor Backup Contributor |
2020-11-10 16:00:42
add: 98d0b9f8-fd90-49c9-88e2-d3baf3b0dd86 |
| Security Center | 80e94a21-c6cd-4c95-a2c7-beb5704e61c0 | 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. | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Security Admin |
2020-11-10 16:00:42
add: 80e94a21-c6cd-4c95-a2c7-beb5704e61c0 |
| Synapse | 3a003702-13d2-4679-941b-937e58c443f0 | Synapse managed private endpoints should only connect to resources in approved Azure Active Directory tenants | Protect your Synapse workspace by only allowing connections to resources in approved Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenants. The approved Azure AD tenants can be defined during policy assignment. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled, Deny) |
2020-11-10 16:00:42
add: 3a003702-13d2-4679-941b-937e58c443f0 | |
| Stream Analytics | 87ba29ef-1ab3-4d82-b763-87fcd4f531f7 | Azure Stream Analytics jobs should use customer-managed keys to encrypt data | Use customer-managed keys when you want to securely store any metadata and private data assets of your Stream Analytics jobs in your storage account. This gives you total control over how your Stream Analytics data is encrypted. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2020-11-10 16:00:42
add: 87ba29ef-1ab3-4d82-b763-87fcd4f531f7 | |
| Azure Data Explorer | 9ad2fd1f-b25f-47a2-aa01-1a5a779e6413 | Virtual network injection should be enabled for Azure Data Explorer | Secure your network perimeter with virtual network injection which allows you to enforce network security group rules, connect on-premises and secure your data connection sources with service endpoints. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2020-11-10 16:00:42
add: 9ad2fd1f-b25f-47a2-aa01-1a5a779e6413 | |
| Monitoring | 5ee9e9ed-0b42-41b7-8c9c-3cfb2fbe2069 | Deploy Log Analytics extension for Linux virtual machine scale sets | Deploy Log Analytics extension for Linux virtual machine scale sets if the VM Image (OS) is in the list defined and the extension is not installed. Note: if your scale set upgradePolicy is set to Manual, you need to apply the extension to the all VMs in the set by calling upgrade on them. In CLI this would be az vmss update-instances. | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Log Analytics Contributor Virtual Machine Contributor |
2020-11-10 16:00:42
change: Major (1.2.0 > 2.0.0) |
| Azure Data Explorer | ec068d99-e9c7-401f-8cef-5bdde4e6ccf1 | Double encryption should be enabled on Azure Data Explorer | Enabling double encryption helps protect and safeguard your data to meet your organizational security and compliance commitments. When double encryption has been enabled, data in the storage account is encrypted twice, once at the service level and once at the infrastructure level, using two different encryption algorithms and two different keys. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2020-11-10 16:00:42
add: ec068d99-e9c7-401f-8cef-5bdde4e6ccf1 | |
| SQL | 32e6bbec-16b6-44c2-be37-c5b672d103cf | Azure SQL Database should have the minimal TLS version of 1.2 | Setting minimal TLS version to 1.2 improves security by ensuring your Azure SQL Database can only be accessed from clients using TLS 1.2. Using versions of TLS less than 1.2 is not recommended since they have well documented security vulnerabilities. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
2020-10-27 14:12:45
change: Patch (1.0.0 > 1.0.1) | |
| Guest Configuration | d3b823c9-e0fc-4453-9fb2-8213b7338523 | Audit Linux machines that don't have the specified applications installed | Requires that prerequisites are deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. Machines are non-compliant if the Chef InSpec resource indicates that one or more of the packages provided by the parameter are not installed. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2020-10-27 14:12:45
change: Major (2.0.0 > 3.0.0) | |
| Guest Configuration | 0447bc18-e2f7-4c0d-aa20-bff034275be1 | Audit Linux machines that have the specified applications installed | Requires that prerequisites are deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. Machines are non-compliant if the Chef InSpec resource indicates that one or more of the packages provided by the parameter are installed. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2020-10-27 14:12:45
change: Major (2.0.0 > 3.0.0) | |
| SQL | 36d49e87-48c4-4f2e-beed-ba4ed02b71f5 | Configure Azure Defender to be enabled on SQL servers | Enable Azure Defender on your Azure SQL Servers to detect anomalous activities indicating unusual and potentially harmful attempts to access or exploit databases. | Fixed: DeployIfNotExists | SQL Security Manager |
2020-10-27 14:12:45
change: Minor (1.0.0 > 1.1.0) |
| Machine Learning | ba769a63-b8cc-4b2d-abf6-ac33c7204be8 | Azure Machine Learning workspaces should be encrypted with a customer-managed key | Manage encryption at rest of Azure Machine Learning workspace data with customer-managed keys. By default, customer data is encrypted with service-managed keys, but customer-managed keys are commonly required to meet regulatory compliance standards. Customer-managed keys enable the data to be encrypted with an Azure Key Vault key created and owned by you. You have full control and responsibility for the key lifecycle, including rotation and management. Learn more at https://aka.ms/azureml-workspaces-cmk. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2020-10-27 14:12:45
change: Patch (1.0.0 > 1.0.1) | |
| Container Registry | 5b9159ae-1701-4a6f-9a7a-aa9c8ddd0580 | Container registries should be encrypted with a customer-managed key | Use customer-managed keys to manage the encryption at rest of the contents of your registries. By default, the data is encrypted at rest with service-managed keys, but customer-managed keys are commonly required to meet regulatory compliance standards. Customer-managed keys enable the data to be encrypted with an Azure Key Vault key created and owned by you. You have full control and responsibility for the key lifecycle, including rotation and management. Learn more at https://aka.ms/acr/CMK. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2020-10-27 14:12:45
change: Minor (1.0.0 > 1.1.0) | |
| API for FHIR | 051cba44-2429-45b9-9649-46cec11c7119 | Azure API for FHIR should use a customer-managed key to encrypt data at rest | Use a customer-managed key to control the encryption at rest of the data stored in Azure API for FHIR when this is a regulatory or compliance requirement. Customer-managed keys also deliver double encryption by adding a second layer of encryption on top of the default one done with service-managed keys. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, disabled) |
2020-10-27 14:12:45
add: 051cba44-2429-45b9-9649-46cec11c7119 | |
| SQL | a8793640-60f7-487c-b5c3-1d37215905c4 | SQL Managed Instance should have the minimal TLS version of 1.2 | Setting minimal TLS version to 1.2 improves security by ensuring your SQL Managed Instance can only be accessed from clients using TLS 1.2. Using versions of TLS less than 1.2 is not recommended since they have well documented security vulnerabilities. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
2020-10-27 14:12:45
change: Patch (1.0.0 > 1.0.1) | |
| Monitoring | c5447c04-a4d7-4ba8-a263-c9ee321a6858 | An activity log alert should exist for specific Policy operations | This policy audits specific Policy operations with no activity log alerts configured. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2020-10-27 14:12:45
change: Major (2.0.0 > 3.0.0) | |
| SQL | 057d6cfe-9c4f-4a6d-bc60-14420ea1f1a9 | Vulnerability Assessment settings for SQL server should contain an email address to receive scan reports | Ensure that an email address is provided for the 'Send scan reports to' field in the Vulnerability Assessment settings. This email address receives scan result summary after a periodic scan runs on SQL servers. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2020-10-27 14:12:45
change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) | |
| Key Vault | 1e66c121-a66a-4b1f-9b83-0fd99bf0fc2d | Key vaults should have soft delete enabled | Deleting a key vault without soft delete enabled permanently deletes all secrets, keys, and certificates stored in the key vault. Accidental deletion of a key vault can lead to permanent data loss. Soft delete allows you to recover an accidentally deleted key vault for a configurable retention period. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2020-10-23 13:31:09
add: 1e66c121-a66a-4b1f-9b83-0fd99bf0fc2d | |
| Key Vault | 0b60c0b2-2dc2-4e1c-b5c9-abbed971de53 | Key vaults should have purge protection enabled | Malicious deletion of a key vault can lead to permanent data loss. A malicious insider in your organization can potentially delete and purge key vaults. Purge protection protects you from insider attacks by enforcing a mandatory retention period for soft deleted key vaults. No one inside your organization or Microsoft will be able to purge your key vaults during the soft delete retention period. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2020-10-23 13:31:09
change: Minor (1.0.0 > 1.1.0) | |
| App Service | 7238174a-fd10-4ef0-817e-fc820a951d73 | Ensure that 'Python version' is the latest, if used as a part of the Function app | Periodically, newer versions are released for Python software either due to security flaws or to include additional functionality. Using the latest Python version for Function apps is recommended in order to take advantage of security fixes, if any, and/or new functionalities of the latest version. Currently, this policy only applies to Linux web apps. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2020-10-20 13:29:33
change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) | |
| App Service | 9d0b6ea4-93e2-4578-bf2f-6bb17d22b4bc | Ensure that 'Java version' is the latest, if used as a part of the Function app | Periodically, newer versions are released for Java software either due to security flaws or to include additional functionality. Using the latest Java version for Function apps is recommended in order to take advantage of security fixes, if any, and/or new functionalities of the latest version. Currently, this policy only applies to Linux web apps. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2020-10-20 13:29:33
change: Major (1.0.1 > 2.0.0) | |
| App Service | e2c1c086-2d84-4019-bff3-c44ccd95113c | Ensure that 'HTTP Version' is the latest, if used to run the Function app | Periodically, newer versions are released for HTTP either due to security flaws or to include additional functionality. Using the latest HTTP version for web apps to take advantage of security fixes, if any, and/or new functionalities of the newer version. Currently, this policy only applies to Linux web apps. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2020-10-20 13:29:33
change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) | |
| App Service | 7261b898-8a84-4db8-9e04-18527132abb3 | Ensure that 'PHP version' is the latest, if used as a part of the WEB app | Periodically, newer versions are released for PHP software either due to security flaws or to include additional functionality. Using the latest PHP version for web apps is recommended in order to take advantage of security fixes, if any, and/or new functionalities of the latest version. Currently, this policy only applies to Linux web apps. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2020-10-20 13:29:33
change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) | |
| App Service | 74c3584d-afae-46f7-a20a-6f8adba71a16 | Ensure that 'Python version' is the latest, if used as a part of the API app | Periodically, newer versions are released for Python software either due to security flaws or to include additional functionality. Using the latest Python version for API apps is recommended in order to take advantage of security fixes, if any, and/or new functionalities of the latest version. Currently, this policy only applies to Linux web apps. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2020-10-20 13:29:33
change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) | |
| App Service | 496223c3-ad65-4ecd-878a-bae78737e9ed | Ensure that 'Java version' is the latest, if used as a part of the Web app | Periodically, newer versions are released for Java software either due to security flaws or to include additional functionality. Using the latest Java version for web apps is recommended in order to take advantage of security fixes, if any, and/or new functionalities of the latest version. Currently, this policy only applies to Linux web apps. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2020-10-20 13:29:33
change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) | |
| App Service | 1bc1795e-d44a-4d48-9b3b-6fff0fd5f9ba | Ensure that 'PHP version' is the latest, if used as a part of the API app | Periodically, newer versions are released for PHP software either due to security flaws or to include additional functionality. Using the latest PHP version for API apps is recommended in order to take advantage of security fixes, if any, and/or new functionalities of the latest version. Currently, this policy only applies to Linux web apps. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2020-10-20 13:29:33
change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) | |
| App Service | 88999f4c-376a-45c8-bcb3-4058f713cf39 | Ensure that 'Java version' is the latest, if used as a part of the API app | Periodically, newer versions are released for Java either due to security flaws or to include additional functionality. Using the latest Python version for API apps is recommended in order to take advantage of security fixes, if any, and/or new functionalities of the latest version. Currently, this policy only applies to Linux web apps. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2020-10-20 13:29:33
change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) | |
| SQL | c9299215-ae47-4f50-9c54-8a392f68a052 | Public network access should be disabled for MySQL flexible servers | Disabling the public network access property improves security by ensuring your Azure Database for MySQL flexible servers can only be accessed from a private endpoint. This configuration strictly disables access from any public address space outside of Azure IP range and denies all logins that match IP or virtual network-based firewall rules. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2020-10-20 13:29:33
add: c9299215-ae47-4f50-9c54-8a392f68a052 | |
| App Service | 7008174a-fd10-4ef0-817e-fc820a951d73 | Ensure that 'Python version' is the latest, if used as a part of the Web app | Periodically, newer versions are released for Python software either due to security flaws or to include additional functionality. Using the latest Python version for web apps is recommended in order to take advantage of security fixes, if any, and/or new functionalities of the latest version. Currently, this policy only applies to Linux web apps. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2020-10-20 13:29:33
change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) | |
| App Service | 8c122334-9d20-4eb8-89ea-ac9a705b74ae | Ensure that 'HTTP Version' is the latest, if used to run the Web app | Periodically, newer versions are released for HTTP either due to security flaws or to include additional functionality. Using the latest HTTP version for web apps to take advantage of security fixes, if any, and/or new functionalities of the newer version. Currently, this policy only applies to Linux web apps. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2020-10-20 13:29:33
change: Major (1.1.0 > 2.0.0) | |
| SQL | 3a58212a-c829-4f13-9872-6371df2fd0b4 | Infrastructure encryption should be enabled for Azure Database for MySQL servers | Enable infrastructure encryption for Azure Database for MySQL servers to have higher level of assurance that the data is secure. When infrastructure encryption is enabled, the data at rest is encrypted twice using FIPS 140-2 compliant Microsoft managed keys. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2020-10-20 13:29:33
add: 3a58212a-c829-4f13-9872-6371df2fd0b4 | |
| SQL | 5e1de0e3-42cb-4ebc-a86d-61d0c619ca48 | Public network access should be disabled for PostgreSQL flexible servers | Disabling the public network access property improves security by ensuring your Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible servers can only be accessed from a private endpoint. This configuration strictly disables access from any public address space outside of Azure IP range and denies all logins that match IP or virtual network-based firewall rules. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2020-10-20 13:29:33
add: 5e1de0e3-42cb-4ebc-a86d-61d0c619ca48 | |
| App Service | 991310cd-e9f3-47bc-b7b6-f57b557d07db | Ensure that 'HTTP Version' is the latest, if used to run the API app | Periodically, newer versions are released for HTTP either due to security flaws or to include additional functionality. Using the latest HTTP version for web apps to take advantage of security fixes, if any, and/or new functionalities of the newer version. Currently, this policy only applies to Linux web apps. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2020-10-20 13:29:33
change: Major (1.0.0 > 2.0.0) | |
| Kubernetes | a8eff44f-8c92-45c3-a3fb-9880802d67a7 | Deploy Azure Policy Add-on to Azure Kubernetes Service clusters | Use Azure Policy Add-on to manage and report on the compliance state of your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters. For more information, see https://aka.ms/akspolicydoc. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Azure Kubernetes Service Contributor Role |
2020-10-20 13:29:33
add: a8eff44f-8c92-45c3-a3fb-9880802d67a7 |
| SQL | 24fba194-95d6-48c0-aea7-f65bf859c598 | Infrastructure encryption should be enabled for Azure Database for PostgreSQL servers | Enable infrastructure encryption for Azure Database for PostgreSQL servers to have higher level of assurance that the data is secure. When infrastructure encryption is enabled, the data at rest is encrypted twice using FIPS 140-2 compliant Microsoft managed keys | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2020-10-20 13:29:33
add: 24fba194-95d6-48c0-aea7-f65bf859c598 | |
| Key Vault | 587c79fe-dd04-4a5e-9d0b-f89598c7261b | Keys should be backed by a hardware security module (HSM) | An HSM is a hardware security module that stores keys. An HSM provides a physical layer of protection for cryptographic keys. The cryptographic key cannot leave a physical HSM which provides a greater level of security than a software key. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2020-10-16 12:27:50
add: 587c79fe-dd04-4a5e-9d0b-f89598c7261b | |
| Key Vault | 152b15f7-8e1f-4c1f-ab71-8c010ba5dbc0 | Key Vault keys should have an expiration date | Cryptographic keys should have a defined expiration date and not be permanent. Keys that are valid forever provide a potential attacker with more time to compromise the key. It is a recommended security practice to set expiration dates on cryptographic keys. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2020-10-16 12:27:50
add: 152b15f7-8e1f-4c1f-ab71-8c010ba5dbc0 | |
| Key Vault | c26e4b24-cf98-4c67-b48b-5a25c4c69eb9 | Keys should not be active for longer than the specified number of days | Specify the number of days that a key should be active. Keys that are used for an extended period of time increase the probability that an attacker could compromise the key. As a good security practice, make sure that your keys have not been active longer than two years. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2020-10-16 12:27:50
add: c26e4b24-cf98-4c67-b48b-5a25c4c69eb9 | |
| Key Vault | 75262d3e-ba4a-4f43-85f8-9f72c090e5e3 | Secrets should have content type set | A content type tag helps identify whether a secret is a password, connection string, etc. Different secrets have different rotation requirements. Content type tag should be set on secrets. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2020-10-16 12:27:50
add: 75262d3e-ba4a-4f43-85f8-9f72c090e5e3 | |
| Key Vault | 82067dbb-e53b-4e06-b631-546d197452d9 | Keys using RSA cryptography should have a specified minimum key size | Set the minimum allowed key size for use with your key vaults. Use of RSA keys with small key sizes is not a secure practice and doesn't meet many industry certification requirements. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2020-10-16 12:27:50
add: 82067dbb-e53b-4e06-b631-546d197452d9 | |
| Key Vault | 342e8053-e12e-4c44-be01-c3c2f318400f | Secrets should have the specified maximum validity period | Manage your organizational compliance requirements by specifying the maximum amount of time in days that a secret can be valid within your key vault. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2020-10-16 12:27:50
add: 342e8053-e12e-4c44-be01-c3c2f318400f | |
| Key Vault | 5ff38825-c5d8-47c5-b70e-069a21955146 | Keys should have more than the specified number of days before expiration | If a key is too close to expiration, an organizational delay to rotate the key may result in an outage. Keys should be rotated at a specified number of days prior to expiration to provide sufficient time to react to a failure. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2020-10-16 12:27:50
add: 5ff38825-c5d8-47c5-b70e-069a21955146 | |
| Key Vault | b0eb591a-5e70-4534-a8bf-04b9c489584a | Secrets should have more than the specified number of days before expiration | If a secret is too close to expiration, an organizational delay to rotate the secret may result in an outage. Secrets should be rotated at a specified number of days prior to expiration to provide sufficient time to react to a failure. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2020-10-16 12:27:50
add: b0eb591a-5e70-4534-a8bf-04b9c489584a | |
| Key Vault | 75c4f823-d65c-4f29-a733-01d0077fdbcb | Keys should be the specified cryptographic type RSA or EC | Some applications require the use of keys backed by a specific cryptographic type. Enforce a particular cryptographic key type, RSA or EC, in your environment. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2020-10-16 12:27:50
add: 75c4f823-d65c-4f29-a733-01d0077fdbcb | |
| Key Vault | e8d99835-8a06-45ae-a8e0-87a91941ccfe | Secrets should not be active for longer than the specified number of days | If your secrets were created with an activation date set in the future, you must ensure that your secrets have not been active for longer than the specified duration. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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| Key Vault | 49a22571-d204-4c91-a7b6-09b1a586fbc9 | Keys should have the specified maximum validity period | Manage your organizational compliance requirements by specifying the maximum amount of time in days that a key can be valid within your key vault. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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| Key Vault | 98728c90-32c7-4049-8429-847dc0f4fe37 | Key Vault secrets should have an expiration date | Secrets should have a defined expiration date and not be permanent. Secrets that are valid forever provide a potential attacker with more time to compromise them. It is a recommended security practice to set expiration dates on secrets. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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add: 98728c90-32c7-4049-8429-847dc0f4fe37 | |
| Key Vault | ff25f3c8-b739-4538-9d07-3d6d25cfb255 | Keys using elliptic curve cryptography should have the specified curve names | Keys backed by elliptic curve cryptography can have different curve names. Some applications are only compatible with specific elliptic curve keys. Enforce the types of elliptic curve keys that are allowed to be created in your environment. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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| General | e01598e8-6538-41ed-95e8-8b29746cd697 | [Deprecated]: Allow resource creation only in Japan data centers | Allows resource creation in the following locations only: Japan East, Japan West | n/a | n/a | 2020-10-15 14:28:11 remove: e01598e8-6538-41ed-95e8-8b29746cd697 (i) |
| General | 6fdb9205-3462-4cfc-87d8-16c7860b53f4 | [Deprecated]: Allow resource creation only in Japan data centers | Allows resource creation in the following locations only: Japan East, Japan West | n/a | n/a | 2020-10-15 14:28:11 remove: 6fdb9205-3462-4cfc-87d8-16c7860b53f4 (i) |
| Lighthouse | 7a8a51a3-ad87-4def-96f3-65a1839242b6 | Allow managing tenant ids to onboard through Azure Lighthouse | Restricting Azure Lighthouse delegations to specific managing tenants increases security by limiting those who can manage your Azure resources. | Fixed: deny |
2020-10-13 13:23:36
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| Storage | 4733ea7b-a883-42fe-8cac-97454c2a9e4a | Storage accounts should have infrastructure encryption | Enable infrastructure encryption for higher level of assurance that the data is secure. When infrastructure encryption is enabled, data in a storage account is encrypted twice. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
2020-10-07 16:00:33
add: 4733ea7b-a883-42fe-8cac-97454c2a9e4a | |
| Lighthouse | 7a8a51a3-ad87-4def-96f3-65a1839242b6 | Allow managing tenant ids to onboard through Azure Lighthouse | Restricting Azure Lighthouse delegations to specific managing tenants increases security by limiting those who can manage your Azure resources. | Fixed: deny |
2020-09-30 14:32:32
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| Guest Configuration | 144f1397-32f9-4598-8c88-118decc3ccba | [Deprecated]: Deploy prerequisites to audit Windows VMs if the Administrators group contains any of the specified members | This policy creates a Guest Configuration assignment to audit Windows virtual machines in which the Administrators group contains any of the specified members. It also creates a system-assigned managed identity and deploys the VM extension for Guest Configuration. This policy should only be used along with its corresponding audit policy in an initiative. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
2020-09-16 13:09:49
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| Guest Configuration | 02a84be7-c304-421f-9bb7-5d2c26af54ad | [Deprecated]: Show audit results from Windows VMs on which the remote connection status does not match the specified one | This policy should only be used along with its corresponding deploy policy in an initiative. This definition allows Azure Policy to process the results of auditing Windows virtual machines on which the remote host connection status does not match the specified one. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: auditIfNotExists |
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| Kubernetes | 0a15ec92-a229-4763-bb14-0ea34a568f8d | Azure Policy Add-on for Kubernetes service (AKS) should be installed and enabled on your clusters | Azure Policy Add-on for Kubernetes service (AKS) extends Gatekeeper v3, an admission controller webhook for Open Policy Agent (OPA), to apply at-scale enforcements and safeguards on your clusters in a centralized, consistent manner. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Disabled) |
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| Guest Configuration | 93507a81-10a4-4af0-9ee2-34cf25a96e98 | [Deprecated]: Deploy prerequisites to audit Windows VMs if the Administrators group doesn't contain all the specified members | This policy creates a Guest Configuration assignment to audit Windows virtual machines in which the Administrators group does not contain all of the specified members. It also creates a system-assigned managed identity and deploys the VM extension for Guest Configuration. This policy should only be used along with its corresponding audit policy in an initiative. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
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| Guest Configuration | bed48b13-6647-468e-aa2f-1af1d3f4dd40 | Windows Defender Exploit Guard should be enabled on your machines | Windows Defender Exploit Guard uses the Azure Policy Guest Configuration agent. Exploit Guard has four components that are designed to lock down devices against a wide variety of attack vectors and block behaviors commonly used in malware attacks while enabling enterprises to balance their security risk and productivity requirements (Windows only). | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Guest Configuration | b821191b-3a12-44bc-9c38-212138a29ff3 | [Deprecated]: Deploy prerequisites to audit Windows VMs if the Administrators group doesn't contain only specified members | This policy creates a Guest Configuration assignment to audit Windows virtual machines in which the Administrators group does not contain only the specified members. It also creates a system-assigned managed identity and deploys the VM extension for Guest Configuration. This policy should only be used along with its corresponding audit policy in an initiative. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
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| Guest Configuration | bde62c94-ccca-4821-a815-92c1d31a76de | [Deprecated]: Show audit results from Windows VMs if the Administrators group contains any of the specified members | This policy should only be used along with its corresponding deploy policy in an initiative. This definition allows Azure Policy to process the results of auditing Windows virtual machines in which the Administrators group contains any of the specified members. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: auditIfNotExists |
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| Guest Configuration | f3b44e5d-1456-475f-9c67-c66c4618e85a | [Deprecated]: Show audit results from Windows VMs if the Administrators group doesn't contain all of the specified members | This policy should only be used along with its corresponding deploy policy in an initiative. This definition allows Azure Policy to process the results of auditing Windows virtual machines in which the Administrators group does not contain all of the specified members. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: auditIfNotExists |
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| Guest Configuration | 630c64f9-8b6b-4c64-b511-6544ceff6fd6 | Authentication to Linux machines should require SSH keys | Although SSH itself provides an encrypted connection, using passwords with SSH still leaves the VM vulnerable to brute-force attacks. The most secure option for authenticating to an Azure Linux virtual machine over SSH is with a public-private key pair, also known as SSH keys. Learn more: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-machines/linux/create-ssh-keys-detailed. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Guest Configuration | 5bb36dda-8a78-4df9-affd-4f05a8612a8a | [Deprecated]: Deploy prerequisites to audit Windows VMs on which the remote connection status does not match the specified one | This policy creates a Guest Configuration assignment to audit Windows virtual machines on which the remote host connection status does not match the specified one. It also creates a system-assigned managed identity and deploys the VM extension for Guest Configuration. This policy should only be used along with its corresponding audit policy in an initiative. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
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| Guest Configuration | cc7cda28-f867-4311-8497-a526129a8d19 | [Deprecated]: Show audit results from Windows VMs if the Administrators group doesn't contain only specified members | This policy should only be used along with its corresponding deploy policy in an initiative. This definition allows Azure Policy to process the results of auditing Windows virtual machines in which the Administrators group does not contain only the specified members. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: auditIfNotExists |
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| Guest Configuration | 67e010c1-640d-438e-a3a5-feaccb533a98 | Windows machines should meet requirements for 'Administrative Templates - Network' | Windows machines should have the specified Group Policy settings in the category 'Administrative Templates - Network' for guest logons, simultaneous connections, network bridge, ICS, and multicast name resolution. This policy requires that the Guest Configuration prerequisites have been deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Guest Configuration | 3ff60f98-7fa4-410a-9f7f-0b00f5afdbdd | Windows machines should meet requirements for 'Security Options - Network Access' | Windows machines should have the specified Group Policy settings in the category 'Security Options - Network Access' for including access for anonymous users, local accounts, and remote access to the registry. This policy requires that the Guest Configuration prerequisites have been deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Guest Configuration | 12017595-5a75-4bb1-9d97-4c2c939ea3c3 | Windows machines should meet requirements for 'Security Options - System settings' | Windows machines should have the specified Group Policy settings in the category 'Security Options - System settings' for certificate rules on executables for SRP and optional subsystems. This policy requires that the Guest Configuration prerequisites have been deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Kubernetes | f06ddb64-5fa3-4b77-b166-acb36f7f6042 | 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 recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Kubernetes | 3fc4dc25-5baf-40d8-9b05-7fe74c1bc64e | Kubernetes clusters should use internal load balancers | Use internal load balancers to make a Kubernetes service accessible only to applications running in the same virtual network as the Kubernetes cluster. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Guest Configuration | 3aa2661b-02d7-4ba6-99bc-dc36b10489fd | Windows machines should meet requirements for 'Administrative Templates - Control Panel' | Windows machines should have the specified Group Policy settings in the category 'Administrative Templates - Control Panel' for input personalization and prevention of enabling lock screens. This policy requires that the Guest Configuration prerequisites have been deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Kubernetes | f85eb0dd-92ee-40e9-8a76-db25a507d6d3 | Kubernetes cluster containers should only use allowed ProcMountType | Pod containers can only use allowed ProcMountTypes in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Guest Configuration | bed48b13-6647-468e-aa2f-1af1d3f4dd40 | Windows Defender Exploit Guard should be enabled on your machines | Windows Defender Exploit Guard uses the Azure Policy Guest Configuration agent. Exploit Guard has four components that are designed to lock down devices against a wide variety of attack vectors and block behaviors commonly used in malware attacks while enabling enterprises to balance their security risk and productivity requirements (Windows only). | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2020-09-15 14:06:41
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| Kubernetes | 16697877-1118-4fb1-9b65-9898ec2509ec | Kubernetes cluster pods should only use allowed volume types | Pods can only use allowed volume types in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Guest Configuration | 35781875-8026-4628-b19b-f6efb4d88a1d | Windows machines should meet requirements for 'System Audit Policies - Object Access' | Windows machines should have the specified Group Policy settings in the category 'System Audit Policies - Object Access' for auditing file, registry, SAM, storage, filtering, kernel, and other system types. This policy requires that the Guest Configuration prerequisites have been deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Guest Configuration | d6c69680-54f0-4349-af10-94dd05f4225e | Windows machines should meet requirements for 'Security Options - Microsoft Network Client' | Windows machines should have the specified Group Policy settings in the category 'Security Options - Microsoft Network Client' for Microsoft network client/server and SMB v1. This policy requires that the Guest Configuration prerequisites have been deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Guest Configuration | 497dff13-db2a-4c0f-8603-28fa3b331ab6 | Add system-assigned managed identity to enable Guest Configuration assignments on VMs with a user-assigned identity | This policy adds a system-assigned managed identity to virtual machines hosted in Azure that are supported by Guest Configuration and have at least one user-assigned identity but do not have a system-assigned managed identity. A system-assigned managed identity is a prerequisite for all Guest Configuration assignments and must be added to machines before using any Guest Configuration policy definitions. For more information on Guest Configuration, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | Fixed: modify | Contributor |
2020-09-15 14:06:41
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| Kubernetes | 1a5b4dca-0b6f-4cf5-907c-56316bc1bf3d | 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 AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more info, visit https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2020-09-15 14:06:41
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| Kubernetes | 511f5417-5d12-434d-ab2e-816901e72a5e | Kubernetes cluster containers should only use allowed AppArmor profiles | Containers should only use allowed AppArmor profiles in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2020-09-15 14:06:41
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| Guest Configuration | e068b215-0026-4354-b347-8fb2766f73a2 | Windows machines should meet requirements for 'User Rights Assignment' | Windows machines should have the specified Group Policy settings in the category 'User Rights Assignment' for allowing log on locally, RDP, access from the network, and many other user activities. This policy requires that the Guest Configuration prerequisites have been deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Guest Configuration | 35d9882c-993d-44e6-87d2-db66ce21b636 | Windows machines should meet requirements for 'Windows Firewall Properties' | Windows machines should have the specified Group Policy settings in the category 'Windows Firewall Properties' for firewall state, connections, rule management, and notifications. This policy requires that the Guest Configuration prerequisites have been deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Guest Configuration | e0a7e899-2ce2-4253-8a13-d808fdeb75af | Windows machines should meet requirements for 'Administrative Templates - MSS (Legacy)' | Windows machines should have the specified Group Policy settings in the category 'Administrative Templates - MSS (Legacy)' for automatic logon, screen saver, network behavior, safe DLL, and event log. This policy requires that the Guest Configuration prerequisites have been deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Guest Configuration | ee984370-154a-4ee8-9726-19d900e56fc0 | Windows machines should meet requirements for 'Security Options - Accounts' | Windows machines should have the specified Group Policy settings in the category 'Security Options - Accounts' for limiting local account use of blank passwords and guest account status. This policy requires that the Guest Configuration prerequisites have been deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Kubernetes | 233a2a17-77ca-4fb1-9b6b-69223d272a44 | 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 AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Guest Configuration | b4a4d1eb-0263-441b-84cb-a44073d8372d | Windows machines should meet requirements for 'Security Options - Shutdown' | Windows machines should have the specified Group Policy settings in the category 'Security Options - Shutdown' for allowing shutdown without logon and clearing the virtual memory pagefile. This policy requires that the Guest Configuration prerequisites have been deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Guest Configuration | 492a29ed-d143-4f03-b6a4-705ce081b463 | Windows machines should meet requirements for 'Security Options - User Account Control' | Windows machines should have the specified Group Policy settings in the category 'Security Options - User Account Control' for mode for admins, behavior of elevation prompt, and virtualizing file and registry write failures. This policy requires that the Guest Configuration prerequisites have been deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Kubernetes | e345eecc-fa47-480f-9e88-67dcc122b164 | Kubernetes cluster containers CPU and memory resource limits should not exceed the specified limits | Enforce container CPU and memory resource limits to prevent resource exhaustion attacks in a Kubernetes cluster. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Kubernetes | 975ce327-682c-4f2e-aa46-b9598289b86c | Kubernetes cluster containers should only use allowed seccomp profiles | Pod containers can only use allowed seccomp profiles in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Guest Configuration | d472d2c9-d6a3-4500-9f5f-b15f123005aa | Windows machines should meet requirements for 'Security Options - Interactive Logon' | Windows machines should have the specified Group Policy settings in the category 'Security Options - Interactive Logon' for displaying last user name and requiring ctrl-alt-del. This policy requires that the Guest Configuration prerequisites have been deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Kubernetes | 95edb821-ddaf-4404-9732-666045e056b4 | 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 AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Guest Configuration | f71be03e-e25b-4d0f-b8bc-9b3e309b66c0 | Windows machines should meet requirements for 'Security Options - Recovery console' | Windows machines should have the specified Group Policy settings in the category 'Security Options - Recovery console' for allowing floppy copy and access to all drives and folders. This policy requires that the Guest Configuration prerequisites have been deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Kubernetes | c26596ff-4d70-4e6a-9a30-c2506bd2f80c | 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 AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Guest Configuration | 2f262ace-812a-4fd0-b731-b38ba9e9708d | Windows machines should meet requirements for 'Security Options - System objects' | Windows machines should have the specified Group Policy settings in the category 'Security Options - System objects' for case insensitivity for non-Windows subsystems and permissions of internal system objects. This policy requires that the Guest Configuration prerequisites have been deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Guest Configuration | 1221c620-d201-468c-81e7-2817e6107e84 | Windows machines should meet requirements for 'Security Options - Network Security' | Windows machines should have the specified Group Policy settings in the category 'Security Options - Network Security' for including Local System behavior, PKU2U, LAN Manager, LDAP client, and NTLM SSP. This policy requires that the Guest Configuration prerequisites have been deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Kubernetes | df49d893-a74c-421d-bc95-c663042e5b80 | 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 AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Kubernetes | 440b515e-a580-421e-abeb-b159a61ddcbc | [Deprecated]: Kubernetes cluster containers should only listen on allowed ports | Restrict containers to listen only on allowed ports to secure access to the Kubernetes cluster. The policy is deprecating since container port is only informative field which cannot decide the port container is actually using. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Guest Configuration | 968410dc-5ca0-4518-8a5b-7b55f0530ea9 | Windows machines should meet requirements for 'Administrative Templates - System' | Windows machines should have the specified Group Policy settings in the category 'Administrative Templates - System' for settings that control the administrative experience and Remote Assistance. This policy requires that the Guest Configuration prerequisites have been deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Kubernetes | 47a1ee2f-2a2a-4576-bf2a-e0e36709c2b8 | Kubernetes cluster containers should not share host process ID or host IPC namespace | Block pod containers from sharing the host process ID namespace and host IPC namespace in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of CIS 5.2.2 and CIS 5.2.3 which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Guest Configuration | 6141c932-9384-44c6-a395-59e4c057d7c9 | Configure time zone on Windows machines. | This policy creates a Guest Configuration assignment to set specified time zone on Windows virtual machines. | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
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| Kubernetes | 82985f06-dc18-4a48-bc1c-b9f4f0098cfe | Kubernetes cluster pods should only use approved host network and port range | Restrict pod access to the host network and the allowable host port range in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of CIS 5.2.4 which is intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Guest Configuration | f2143251-70de-4e81-87a8-36cee5a2f29d | Windows machines should meet requirements for 'Security Settings - Account Policies' | Windows machines should have the specified Group Policy settings in the category 'Security Settings - Account Policies' for password history, age, length, complexity, and storing passwords using reversible encryption. This policy requires that the Guest Configuration prerequisites have been deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Guest Configuration | 2a7a701e-dff3-4da9-9ec5-42cb98594c0b | Windows machines should meet requirements for 'System Audit Policies - Policy Change' | Windows machines should have the specified Group Policy settings in the category 'System Audit Policies - Policy Change' for auditing changes to system audit policies. This policy requires that the Guest Configuration prerequisites have been deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Kubernetes | 56d0a13f-712f-466b-8416-56fb354fb823 | Kubernetes cluster containers should not use forbidden sysctl interfaces | Containers should not use forbidden sysctl interfaces in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Guest Configuration | 19be9779-c776-4dfa-8a15-a2fd5dc843d6 | Windows machines should meet requirements for 'System Audit Policies - Logon-Logoff' | Windows machines should have the specified Group Policy settings in the category 'System Audit Policies - Logon-Logoff' for auditing IPSec, network policy, claims, account lockout, group membership, and logon/logoff events. This policy requires that the Guest Configuration prerequisites have been deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Kubernetes | 098fc59e-46c7-4d99-9b16-64990e543d75 | 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 recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Guest Configuration | 33936777-f2ac-45aa-82ec-07958ec9ade4 | Windows machines should meet requirements for 'Security Options - Audit' | Windows machines should have the specified Group Policy settings in the category 'Security Options - Audit' for forcing audit policy subcategory and shutting down if unable to log security audits. This policy requires that the Guest Configuration prerequisites have been deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Guest Configuration | 43bb60fe-1d7e-4b82-9e93-496bfc99e7d5 | Windows machines should meet requirements for 'System Audit Policies - Account Logon' | Windows machines should have the specified Group Policy settings in the category 'System Audit Policies - Account Logon' for auditing credential validation and other account logon events. This policy requires that the Guest Configuration prerequisites have been deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Kubernetes | f4a8fce0-2dd5-4c21-9a36-8f0ec809d663 | Kubernetes cluster pod FlexVolume volumes should only use allowed drivers | Pod FlexVolume volumes should only use allowed drivers in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Kubernetes | 46592696-4c7b-4bf3-9e45-6c2763bdc0a6 | Kubernetes cluster pods should use specified labels | Use specified labels to identify the pods in a Kubernetes cluster. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Guest Configuration | caf2d518-f029-4f6b-833b-d7081702f253 | Windows machines should meet requirements for 'Security Options - Microsoft Network Server' | Windows machines should have the specified Group Policy settings in the category 'Security Options - Microsoft Network Server' for disabling SMB v1 server. This policy requires that the Guest Configuration prerequisites have been deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Guest Configuration | 3cf2ab00-13f1-4d0c-8971-2ac904541a7e | Add system-assigned managed identity to enable Guest Configuration assignments on virtual machines with no identities | This policy adds a system-assigned managed identity to virtual machines hosted in Azure that are supported by Guest Configuration but do not have any managed identities. A system-assigned managed identity is a prerequisite for all Guest Configuration assignments and must be added to machines before using any Guest Configuration policy definitions. For more information on Guest Configuration, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | Fixed: modify | Contributor |
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| Kubernetes | 1c6e92c9-99f0-4e55-9cf2-0c234dc48f99 | Kubernetes clusters should not allow container privilege escalation | Do not allow containers to run with privilege escalation to root in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of CIS 5.2.5 which is intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Guest Configuration | 8537fe96-8cbe-43de-b0ef-131bc72bc22a | Windows machines should meet requirements for 'Windows Components' | Windows machines should have the specified Group Policy settings in the category 'Windows Components' for basic authentication, unencrypted traffic, Microsoft accounts, telemetry, Cortana, and other Windows behaviors. This policy requires that the Guest Configuration prerequisites have been deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Kubernetes | febd0533-8e55-448f-b837-bd0e06f16469 | 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. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: deny Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Guest Configuration | 385f5831-96d4-41db-9a3c-cd3af78aaae6 | Deploy the Windows Guest Configuration extension to enable Guest Configuration assignments on Windows VMs | This policy deploys the Windows Guest Configuration extension to Windows virtual machines hosted in Azure that are supported by Guest Configuration. The Windows Guest Configuration extension is a prerequisite for all Windows Guest Configuration assignments and must be deployed to machines before using any Windows Guest Configuration policy definition. For more information on Guest Configuration, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
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| Guest Configuration | 630c64f9-8b6b-4c64-b511-6544ceff6fd6 | Authentication to Linux machines should require SSH keys | Although SSH itself provides an encrypted connection, using passwords with SSH still leaves the VM vulnerable to brute-force attacks. The most secure option for authenticating to an Azure Linux virtual machine over SSH is with a public-private key pair, also known as SSH keys. Learn more: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-machines/linux/create-ssh-keys-detailed. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Guest Configuration | 58383b73-94a9-4414-b382-4146eb02611b | Windows machines should meet requirements for 'System Audit Policies - Detailed Tracking' | Windows machines should have the specified Group Policy settings in the category 'System Audit Policies - Detailed Tracking' for auditing DPAPI, process creation/termination, RPC events, and PNP activity. This policy requires that the Guest Configuration prerequisites have been deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Guest Configuration | 8794ff4f-1a35-4e18-938f-0b22055067cd | Windows machines should meet requirements for 'Security Options - Devices' | Windows machines should have the specified Group Policy settings in the category 'Security Options - Devices' for undocking without logging on, installing print drivers, and formatting/ejecting media. This policy requires that the Guest Configuration prerequisites have been deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Guest Configuration | 87845465-c458-45f3-af66-dcd62176f397 | Windows machines should meet requirements for 'System Audit Policies - Privilege Use' | Windows machines should have the specified Group Policy settings in the category 'System Audit Policies - Privilege Use' for auditing nonsensitive and other privilege use. This policy requires that the Guest Configuration prerequisites have been deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Automanage | 270610db-8c04-438a-a739-e8e6745b22d3 | Configure virtual machines to be onboarded to Azure Automanage | Azure Automanage enrolls, configures, and monitors virtual machines with best practice as defined in the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure. Use this policy to apply Automanage to your selected scope. | Default: DeployIfNotExists Allowed: (DeployIfNotExists, Disabled) | Contributor |
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| Guest Configuration | 331e8ea8-378a-410f-a2e5-ae22f38bb0da | Deploy the Linux Guest Configuration extension to enable Guest Configuration assignments on Linux VMs | This policy deploys the Linux Guest Configuration extension to Linux virtual machines hosted in Azure that are supported by Guest Configuration. The Linux Guest Configuration extension is a prerequisite for all Linux Guest Configuration assignments and must be deployed to machines before using any Linux Guest Configuration policy definition. For more information on Guest Configuration, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
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| Guest Configuration | 8316fa92-d69c-4810-8124-62414f560dcf | Windows machines should meet requirements for 'System Audit Policies - System' | Windows machines should have the specified Group Policy settings in the category 'System Audit Policies - System' for auditing IPsec driver, system integrity, system extension, state change, and other system events. This policy requires that the Guest Configuration prerequisites have been deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Guest Configuration | 94d9aca8-3757-46df-aa51-f218c5f11954 | Windows machines should meet requirements for 'System Audit Policies - Account Management' | Windows machines should have the specified Group Policy settings in the category 'System Audit Policies - Account Management' for auditing application, security, and user group management, and other management events. This policy requires that the Guest Configuration prerequisites have been deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Kubernetes | e1e6c427-07d9-46ab-9689-bfa85431e636 | Kubernetes cluster pods and containers should only use allowed SELinux options | Pods and containers should only use allowed SELinux options in a Kubernetes cluster. This recommendation is part of Pod Security Policies which are intended to improve the security of your Kubernetes environments. This policy is generally available for Kubernetes Service (AKS), and preview for AKS Engine and Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes. For more information, see https://aka.ms/kubepolicydoc. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
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| Guest Configuration | f3b9ad83-000d-4dc1-bff0-6d54533dd03f | [Deprecated]: Show audit results from Windows VMs that do not contain the specified certificates in Trusted Root | This policy should only be used along with its corresponding deploy policy in an initiative. This definition allows Azure Policy to process the results of auditing Windows VMs that do not contain the specified certificates in the Trusted Root Certification Authorities certificate store (Cert:\LocalMachine\Root). For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: auditIfNotExists |
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| Guest Configuration | 1417908b-4bff-46ee-a2a6-4acc899320ab | Audit Windows machines that contain certificates expiring within the specified number of days | Requires that prerequisites are deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. Machines are non-compliant if certificates in the specified store have an expiration date out of range for the number of days given as parameter. The policy also provides the option to only check for specific certificates or exclude specific certificates, and whether to report on expired certificates. | Fixed: auditIfNotExists |
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| Guest Configuration | 32b1e4d4-6cd5-47b4-a935-169da8a5c262 | [Deprecated]: Deploy prerequisites to audit Windows VMs on which the specified services are not installed and 'Running' | This policy creates a Guest Configuration assignment to audit Windows virtual machines on which the specified services are not installed and 'Running'. It also creates a system-assigned managed identity and deploys the VM extension for Guest Configuration. This policy should only be used along with its corresponding audit policy in an initiative. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
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| SQL | a9934fd7-29f2-4e6d-ab3d-607ea38e9079 | SQL Managed Instances should avoid using GRS backup redundancy | Managed Instances should avoid using the default geo-redundant storage for backups, if data residency rules require data to stay within a specific region. Note: Azure Policy is not enforced when creating a database using T-SQL. If not explicitly specified, database with geo-redundant backup storage is created via T-SQL. | Default: Deny Allowed: (Deny, Disabled) |
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| Guest Configuration | f3b44e5d-1456-475f-9c67-c66c4618e85a | [Deprecated]: Show audit results from Windows VMs if the Administrators group doesn't contain all of the specified members | This policy should only be used along with its corresponding deploy policy in an initiative. This definition allows Azure Policy to process the results of auditing Windows virtual machines in which the Administrators group does not contain all of the specified members. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: auditIfNotExists |
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| Guest Configuration | a29ee95c-0395-4515-9851-cc04ffe82a91 | [Deprecated]: Show audit results from Windows VMs that are not joined to the specified domain | This policy should only be used along with its corresponding deploy policy in an initiative. This definition allows Azure Policy to process the results of auditing Windows virtual machines that are not joined to the specified domain. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: auditIfNotExists |
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| Key Vault | 5f0bc445-3935-4915-9981-011aa2b46147 | [Preview]: Private endpoint should be configured for Key Vault | Private link provides a way to connect Key Vault to your Azure resources without sending traffic over the public internet. Private link provides defense in depth protection against data exfiltration. | Default: Audit Allowed: (Audit, Deny, Disabled) |
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| Guest Configuration | c5fbc59e-fb6f-494f-81e2-d99a671bdaa8 | [Deprecated]: Deploy prerequisites to audit Windows VMs that contain certificates expiring within the specified number of days | This policy creates a Guest Configuration assignment to audit Windows virtual machines that contain certificates expiring within the specified number of days. It also creates a system-assigned managed identity and deploys the VM extension for Guest Configuration. This policy should only be used along with its corresponding audit policy in an initiative. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
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| Guest Configuration | 7a031c68-d6ab-406e-a506-697a19c634b0 | [Deprecated]: Deploy prerequisites to audit Windows Server VMs on which Windows Serial Console is not enabled | This policy creates a Guest Configuration assignment to audit Windows Server virtual machines on which Windows Serial Console is not enabled. It also creates a system-assigned managed identity and deploys the VM extension for Guest Configuration. This policy should only be used along with its corresponding audit policy in an initiative. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
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| Guest Configuration | ea53dbee-c6c9-4f0e-9f9e-de0039b78023 | Audit Linux machines that allow remote connections from accounts without passwords | Requires that prerequisites are deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. Machines are non-compliant if Linux machines that allow remote connections from accounts without passwords | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
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| Guest Configuration | 4221adbc-5c0f-474f-88b7-037a99e6114c | Audit Windows VMs with a pending reboot | 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 pending reboot for any of the following reasons: component based servicing, Windows Update, pending file rename, pending computer rename, configuration manager pending reboot. Each detection has a unique registry path. | Fixed: auditIfNotExists |
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| Guest Configuration | 106ccbe4-a791-4f33-a44a-06796944b8d5 | [Deprecated]: Deploy prerequisites to audit Windows VMs that do not contain the specified certificates in Trusted Root | This policy creates a Guest Configuration assignment to audit Windows VMs that do not contain the specified certificates in the Trusted Root Certification Authorities certificate store (Cert:\LocalMachine\Root). It also creates a system-assigned managed identity and deploys the VM extension for Guest Configuration. This policy should only be used along with its corresponding audit policy in an initiative. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
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| Guest Configuration | 02a84be7-c304-421f-9bb7-5d2c26af54ad | [Deprecated]: Show audit results from Windows VMs on which the remote connection status does not match the specified one | This policy should only be used along with its corresponding deploy policy in an initiative. This definition allows Azure Policy to process the results of auditing Windows virtual machines on which the remote host connection status does not match the specified one. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: auditIfNotExists |
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| Guest Configuration | c633f6a2-7f8b-4d9e-9456-02f0f04f5505 | Audit Windows machines that are not set to the specified time zone | Requires that prerequisites are deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. Machines are non-compliant if the value of the property StandardName in WMI class Win32_TimeZone does not match the selected time zone for the policy parameter. | Fixed: auditIfNotExists |
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| Guest Configuration | 24dde96d-f0b1-425e-884f-4a1421e2dcdc | [Deprecated]: Show audit results from Windows VMs that do not have a maximum password age of 70 days | This policy should only be used along with its corresponding deploy policy in an initiative. This definition allows Azure Policy to process the results of auditing Windows virtual machines that do not have a maximum password age of 70 days. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: auditIfNotExists |
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| Guest Configuration | 2d60d3b7-aa10-454c-88a8-de39d99d17c6 | [Deprecated]: Show audit results from Windows VMs that do not store passwords using reversible encryption | This policy should only be used along with its corresponding deploy policy in an initiative. This definition allows Azure Policy to process the results of auditing Windows virtual machines that do not store passwords using reversible encryption. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: auditIfNotExists |
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| Guest Configuration | 5aa11bbc-5c76-4302-80e5-aba46a4282e7 | [Deprecated]: Show audit results from Windows VMs that do not have a minimum password age of 1 day | This policy should only be used along with its corresponding deploy policy in an initiative. This definition allows Azure Policy to process the results of auditing Windows virtual machines that do not have a minimum password age of 1 day. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: auditIfNotExists |
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| Guest Configuration | 3470477a-b35a-49db-aca5-1073d04524fe | [Deprecated]: Deploy prerequisites to audit Linux VMs that have accounts without passwords | This policy creates a Guest Configuration assignment to audit Linux virtual machines that have accounts without passwords. It also creates a system-assigned managed identity and deploys the VM extension for Guest Configuration. This policy should only be used along with its corresponding audit policy in an initiative. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
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| Guest Configuration | b18175dd-c599-4c64-83ba-bb018a06d35b | [Deprecated]: Show audit results from Linux VMs that do not have the passwd file permissions set to 0644 | This policy should only be used along with its corresponding deploy policy in an initiative. This definition allows Azure Policy to process the results of auditing Linux virtual machines that do not have the passwd file permissions set to 0644. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: auditIfNotExists |
2020-09-09 11:24:03
change: Previous DisplayName: Show audit results from Linux VMs that do not have the passwd file permissions set to 0644 | |
| Guest Configuration | 5e393799-e3ca-4e43-a9a5-0ec4648a57d9 | [Deprecated]: Show audit results from Windows VMs that do not have the specified applications installed | This policy should only be used along with its corresponding deploy policy in an initiative. This definition allows Azure Policy to process the results of auditing Windows virtual machines that do not have the specified applications installed. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: auditIfNotExists |
2020-09-09 11:24:03
change: Previous DisplayName: Show audit results from Windows VMs that do not have the specified applications installed | |
| Guest Configuration | a030a57e-4639-4e8f-ade9-a92f33afe7ee | [Deprecated]: Show audit results from Windows VMs on which the Log Analytics agent is not connected as expected | This policy should only be used along with its corresponding deploy policy in an initiative. This definition allows Azure Policy to process the results of auditing Windows virtual machines on which the Log Analytics agent is not connected to the specified workspaces. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: auditIfNotExists |
2020-09-09 11:24:03
change: Previous DisplayName: Show audit results from Windows VMs on which the Log Analytics agent is not connected as expected | |
| Guest Configuration | 60ffe3e2-4604-4460-8f22-0f1da058266c | [Deprecated]: Show audit results from Windows web servers that are not using secure communication protocols | This policy should only be used along with its corresponding deploy policy in an initiative. This definition allows Azure Policy to process the results of auditing Windows web servers that are not using secure communication protocols (TLS 1.1 or TLS 1.2). For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: auditIfNotExists |
2020-09-09 11:24:03
change: Previous DisplayName: Show audit results from Windows web servers that are not using secure communication protocols | |
| Guest Configuration | d7ccd0ca-8d78-42af-a43d-6b7f928accbc | [Deprecated]: Show audit results from Windows Server VMs on which Windows Serial Console is not enabled | This policy should only be used along with its corresponding deploy policy in an initiative. This definition allows Azure Policy to process the results of auditing Windows Server virtual machines on which Windows Serial Console is not enabled. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: auditIfNotExists |
2020-09-09 11:24:03
change: Previous DisplayName: Show audit results from Windows Server VMs on which Windows Serial Console is not enabled | |
| Guest Configuration | 93507a81-10a4-4af0-9ee2-34cf25a96e98 | [Deprecated]: Deploy prerequisites to audit Windows VMs if the Administrators group doesn't contain all the specified members | This policy creates a Guest Configuration assignment to audit Windows virtual machines in which the Administrators group does not contain all of the specified members. It also creates a system-assigned managed identity and deploys the VM extension for Guest Configuration. This policy should only be used along with its corresponding audit policy in an initiative. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
2020-09-09 11:24:03
change: Previous DisplayName: Deploy prerequisites to audit Windows VMs in which the Administrators group does not contain all of the specified members |
| Guest Configuration | ec49586f-4939-402d-a29e-6ff502b20592 | [Deprecated]: Deploy prerequisites to audit Linux VMs that allow remote connections from accounts without passwords | This policy creates a Guest Configuration assignment to audit Linux virtual machines that allow remote connections from accounts without passwords. It also creates a system-assigned managed identity and deploys the VM extension for Guest Configuration. This policy should only be used along with its corresponding audit policy in an initiative. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
2020-09-09 11:24:03
change: Previous DisplayName: Deploy prerequisites to audit Linux VMs that allow remote connections from accounts without passwords |
| Guest Configuration | 30f71ea1-ac77-4f26-9fc5-2d926bbd4ba7 | Audit Windows machines missing any of specified members in the Administrators group | Requires that prerequisites are deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. Machines are non-compliant if the local Administrators group does not contain one or more members that are listed in the policy parameter. | Fixed: auditIfNotExists |
2020-09-09 11:24:03
add: 30f71ea1-ac77-4f26-9fc5-2d926bbd4ba7 | |
| Guest Configuration | 8ff0b18b-262e-4512-857a-48ad0aeb9a78 | [Deprecated]: Deploy prerequisites to audit Windows VMs that do not store passwords using reversible encryption | This policy creates a Guest Configuration assignment to audit Windows virtual machines that do not store passwords using reversible encryption. It also creates a system-assigned managed identity and deploys the VM extension for Guest Configuration. This policy should only be used along with its corresponding audit policy in an initiative. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
2020-09-09 11:24:03
change: Previous DisplayName: Deploy prerequisites to audit Windows VMs that do not store passwords using reversible encryption |
| Guest Configuration | 884b209a-963b-4520-8006-d20cb3c213e0 | [Deprecated]: Deploy prerequisites to audit Linux VMs that have the specified applications installed | This policy creates a Guest Configuration assignment to audit Linux virtual machines that have the specified applications installed. It also creates a system-assigned managed identity and deploys the VM extension for Guest Configuration. This policy should only be used along with its corresponding audit policy in an initiative. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
2020-09-09 11:24:03
change: Previous DisplayName: Deploy prerequisites to audit Linux VMs that have the specified applications installed |
| Guest Configuration | 12f7e5d0-42a7-4630-80d8-54fb7cff9bd6 | [Deprecated]: Deploy prerequisites to audit Windows VMs that do not have the specified applications installed | This policy creates a Guest Configuration assignment to audit Windows virtual machines that do not have the specified applications installed. It also creates a system-assigned managed identity and deploys the VM extension for Guest Configuration. This policy should only be used along with its corresponding audit policy in an initiative. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
2020-09-09 11:24:03
change: Previous DisplayName: Deploy prerequisites to audit Windows VMs that do not have the specified applications installed |
| SQL | b219b9cf-f672-4f96-9ab0-f5a3ac5e1c13 | SQL Database should avoid using GRS backup redundancy | Databases should avoid using the default geo-redundant storage for backups, if data residency rules require data to stay within a specific region. Note: Azure Policy is not enforced when creating a database using T-SQL. If not explicitly specified, database with geo-redundant backup storage is created via T-SQL. | Default: Deny Allowed: (Deny, Disabled) |
2020-09-09 11:24:03
add: b219b9cf-f672-4f96-9ab0-f5a3ac5e1c13 | |
| Guest Configuration | bde62c94-ccca-4821-a815-92c1d31a76de | [Deprecated]: Show audit results from Windows VMs if the Administrators group contains any of the specified members | This policy should only be used along with its corresponding deploy policy in an initiative. This definition allows Azure Policy to process the results of auditing Windows virtual machines in which the Administrators group contains any of the specified members. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: auditIfNotExists |
2020-09-09 11:24:03
change: Previous DisplayName: Show audit results from Windows VMs in which the Administrators group contains any of the specified members | |
| Guest Configuration | f4b245d4-46c9-42be-9b1a-49e2b5b94194 | [Deprecated]: Deploy prerequisites to audit Windows VMs that have not restarted within the specified number of days | This policy creates a Guest Configuration assignment to audit Windows virtual machines that have not restarted within the specified number of days. It also creates a system-assigned managed identity and deploys the VM extension for Guest Configuration. This policy should only be used along with its corresponding audit policy in an initiative. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
2020-09-09 11:24:03
change: Previous DisplayName: Deploy prerequisites to audit Windows VMs that have not restarted within the specified number of days |
| Guest Configuration | 4ceb8dc2-559c-478b-a15b-733fbf1e3738 | Audit Windows machines that do not have a maximum password age of 70 days | Requires that prerequisites are deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. Machines are non-compliant if Windows machines that do not have a maximum password age of 70 days | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2020-09-09 11:24:03
add: 4ceb8dc2-559c-478b-a15b-733fbf1e3738 | |
| Guest Configuration | da0f98fe-a24b-4ad5-af69-bd0400233661 | Audit Windows machines that do not store passwords using reversible encryption | Requires that prerequisites are deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. Machines are non-compliant if Windows machines that do not store passwords using reversible encryption | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2020-09-09 11:24:03
add: da0f98fe-a24b-4ad5-af69-bd0400233661 | |
| Guest Configuration | 6265018c-d7e2-432f-a75d-094d5f6f4465 | Audit Windows machines on which the Log Analytics agent is not connected as expected | Requires that prerequisites are deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. Machines are non-compliant if the agent is not installed, or if it is installed but the COM object AgentConfigManager.MgmtSvcCfg returns that it is registered to a workspace other than the ID specified in the policy parameter. | Fixed: auditIfNotExists |
2020-09-09 11:24:03
add: 6265018c-d7e2-432f-a75d-094d5f6f4465 | |
| Guest Configuration | 5bb36dda-8a78-4df9-affd-4f05a8612a8a | [Deprecated]: Deploy prerequisites to audit Windows VMs on which the remote connection status does not match the specified one | This policy creates a Guest Configuration assignment to audit Windows virtual machines on which the remote host connection status does not match the specified one. It also creates a system-assigned managed identity and deploys the VM extension for Guest Configuration. This policy should only be used along with its corresponding audit policy in an initiative. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
2020-09-09 11:24:03
change: Previous DisplayName: Deploy prerequisites to audit Windows VMs on which the remote host connection status does not match the specified one |
| Guest Configuration | 7ed40801-8a0f-4ceb-85c0-9fd25c1d61a8 | [Deprecated]: Deploy prerequisites to audit Windows VMs that do not have the password complexity setting enabled | This policy creates a Guest Configuration assignment to audit Windows virtual machines that do not have the password complexity setting enabled. It also creates a system-assigned managed identity and deploys the VM extension for Guest Configuration. This policy should only be used along with its corresponding audit policy in an initiative. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
2020-09-09 11:24:03
change: Previous DisplayName: Deploy prerequisites to audit Windows VMs that do not have the password complexity setting enabled |
| Guest Configuration | 726671ac-c4de-4908-8c7d-6043ae62e3b6 | [Deprecated]: Deploy prerequisites to audit Windows VMs that allow re-use of the previous 24 passwords | This policy creates a Guest Configuration assignment to audit Windows virtual machines that allow re-use of the previous 24 passwords. It also creates a system-assigned managed identity and deploys the VM extension for Guest Configuration. This policy should only be used along with its corresponding audit policy in an initiative. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
2020-09-09 11:24:03
change: Previous DisplayName: Deploy prerequisites to audit Windows VMs that allow re-use of the previous 24 passwords |
| Guest Configuration | beb6ccee-b6b8-4e91-9801-a5fa4260a104 | Audit Windows machines that have not restarted within the specified number of days | Requires that prerequisites are deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. Machines are non-compliant if the WMI property LastBootUpTime in class Win32_Operatingsystem is outside the range of days provided by the policy parameter. | Fixed: auditIfNotExists |
2020-09-09 11:24:03
add: beb6ccee-b6b8-4e91-9801-a5fa4260a104 | |
| Guest Configuration | 5b054a0d-39e2-4d53-bea3-9734cad2c69b | Audit Windows machines that allow re-use of the previous 24 passwords | Requires that prerequisites are deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. Machines are non-compliant if Windows machines that allow re-use of the previous 24 passwords | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2020-09-09 11:24:03
add: 5b054a0d-39e2-4d53-bea3-9734cad2c69b | |
| Guest Configuration | 58c460e9-7573-4bb2-9676-339c2f2486bb | Audit Windows machines on which Windows Serial Console is not enabled | Requires that prerequisites are deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. Machines are non-compliant if the machine does not have the Serial Console software installed or if the EMS port number or baud rate are not configured with the same values as the policy parameters. | Fixed: auditIfNotExists |
2020-09-09 11:24:03
add: 58c460e9-7573-4bb2-9676-339c2f2486bb | |
| Guest Configuration | f19aa1c1-6b91-4c27-ae6a-970279f03db9 | [Deprecated]: Deploy prerequisites to audit Linux VMs that do not have the passwd file permissions set to 0644 | This policy creates a Guest Configuration assignment to audit Linux virtual machines that do not have the passwd file permissions set to 0644. It also creates a system-assigned managed identity and deploys the VM extension for Guest Configuration. This policy should only be used along with its corresponding audit policy in an initiative. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
2020-09-09 11:24:03
change: Previous DisplayName: Deploy prerequisites to audit Linux VMs that do not have the passwd file permissions set to 0644 |
| Security Center | a4fe33eb-e377-4efb-ab31-0784311bc499 | Log Analytics agent should be installed on your virtual machine for Azure Security Center monitoring | This policy audits any Windows/Linux virtual machines (VMs) if the Log Analytics agent is not installed which Security Center uses to monitor for security vulnerabilities and threats | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2020-09-09 11:24:03
add: a4fe33eb-e377-4efb-ab31-0784311bc499 | |
| Guest Configuration | 0447bc18-e2f7-4c0d-aa20-bff034275be1 | Audit Linux machines that have the specified applications installed | Requires that prerequisites are deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. Machines are non-compliant if the Chef InSpec resource indicates that one or more of the packages provided by the parameter are installed. | Default: AuditIfNotExists Allowed: (AuditIfNotExists, Disabled) |
2020-09-09 11:24:03
add: 0447bc18-e2f7-4c0d-aa20-bff034275be1 | |
| Managed Application | 9db7917b-1607-4e7d-a689-bca978dd0633 | Application definition for Managed Application should use customer provided storage account | Use your own storage account to control the application definition data when this is a regulatory or compliance requirement. You can choose to store your managed application definition within a storage account provided by you during creation, so that its location and access can be fully managed by you to fulfill regulatory compliance requirements. | Default: audit Allowed: (audit, deny, disabled) |
2020-09-09 11:24:03
add: 9db7917b-1607-4e7d-a689-bca978dd0633 | |
| Guest Configuration | 7e56b49b-5990-4159-a734-511ea19b731c | [Deprecated]: Show audit results from Windows VMs that have the specified applications installed | This policy should only be used along with its corresponding deploy policy in an initiative. This definition allows Azure Policy to process the results of auditing Windows virtual machines that have the specified applications installed. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: auditIfNotExists |
2020-09-09 11:24:03
change: Previous DisplayName: Show audit results from Windows VMs that have the specified applications installed | |
| Guest Configuration | b821191b-3a12-44bc-9c38-212138a29ff3 | [Deprecated]: Deploy prerequisites to audit Windows VMs if the Administrators group doesn't contain only specified members | This policy creates a Guest Configuration assignment to audit Windows virtual machines in which the Administrators group does not contain only the specified members. It also creates a system-assigned managed identity and deploys the VM extension for Guest Configuration. This policy should only be used along with its corresponding audit policy in an initiative. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: deployIfNotExists | Contributor |
2020-09-09 11:24:03
change: Previous DisplayName: Deploy prerequisites to audit Windows VMs in which the Administrators group does not contain only the specified members |
| Guest Configuration | 630ac30f-a234-4533-ac2d-e0df77acda51 | Audit Windows machines network connectivity | Requires that prerequisites are deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. Machines are non-compliant if a network connection status to an IP and TCP port does not match the policy parameter. | Fixed: auditIfNotExists |
2020-09-09 11:24:03
add: 630ac30f-a234-4533-ac2d-e0df77acda51 | |
| Guest Configuration | 5b842acb-0fe7-41b0-9f40-880ec4ad84d8 | [Deprecated]: Show audit results from Linux VMs that have the specified applications installed | This policy should only be used along with its corresponding deploy policy in an initiative. This definition allows Azure Policy to process the results of auditing Linux virtual machines that have the specified applications installed. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: auditIfNotExists |
2020-09-09 11:24:03
change: Previous DisplayName: Show audit results from Linux VMs that have the specified applications installed | |
| Guest Configuration | 2d67222d-05fd-4526-a171-2ee132ad9e83 | [Deprecated]: Show audit results from Linux VMs that allow remote connections from accounts without passwords | This policy should only be used along with its corresponding deploy policy in an initiative. This definition allows Azure Policy to process the results of auditing Linux virtual machines that allow remote connections from accounts without passwords. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: auditIfNotExists |
2020-09-09 11:24:03
change: Previous DisplayName: Show audit results from Linux VMs that allow remote connections from accounts without passwords | |
| Guest Configuration | 9328f27e-611e-44a7-a244-39109d7d35ab | [Deprecated]: Show audit results from Windows VMs that contain certificates expiring within the specified number of days | This policy should only be used along with its corresponding deploy policy in an initiative. This definition allows Azure Policy to process the results of auditing Windows virtual machines that contain certificates expiring within the specified number of days. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: auditIfNotExists |
2020-09-09 11:24:03
change: Previous DisplayName: Show audit results from Windows VMs that contain certificates expiring within the specified number of days | |
| Guest Configuration | cdbf72d9-ac9c-4026-8a3a-491a5ac59293 | [Deprecated]: Show audit results from Windows VMs that allow re-use of the previous 24 passwords | This policy should only be used along with its corresponding deploy policy in an initiative. This definition allows Azure Policy to process the results of auditing Windows virtual machines that allow re-use of the previous 24 passwords. For more information on Guest Configuration policies, please visit https://aka.ms/gcpol | Fixed: auditIfNotExists |
2020-09-09 11:24:03
change: Previous DisplayName: Show audit results from Windows VMs that allow re-use of the previous 24 passwords | |
| Guest Configuration | e6ebf138-3d71-4935-a13b-9c7fdddd94df | Audit Windows machines on which the specified services are not installed and 'Running' | Requires that prerequisites are deployed to the policy assignment scope. For details, visit https://aka.ms/gcpol. Machines are non-compliant if result of the Windows PowerShell command Get-Service do not include the service name with matching status as specified by the policy parameter. | Fixed: auditIfNotExists |
2020-09-09 11:24:03
add: e6ebf138-3d71-4935-a13b-9c7fdddd94df | |
| Guest Configuration | b2fc8f91-866d-4434-9089-5ebfe38d6fd8 | [Deprecated]: Deploy prerequisites to audit Windows web servers that are not using secure communication protocols | This policy creates a Guest Configuration assignment to audit Windows web servers that are not using secure communication protocols (TLS 1.1 or TLS 1.2). It also creates a system-assigned manag |