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{
"$schema": "checklist.schema.json",
"items": [
{
"category": "Defender For Cloud",
"subcategory": "Pricing & Settings",
"text": "Security Center/Defender enable in all subscriptions",
"guid": "54174158-33fb-43ae-9c2d-e743165c3acb",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/security-center/security-center-get-started"
},
{
"category": "Defender For Cloud",
"subcategory": "Pricing & Settings",
"text": "Security Center/Defender enabled on all Log Analytics workspaces",
"guid": "349f0364-d28d-442e-abbb-c868255abc91",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/security-center/enable-azure-defender"
},
{
"category": "Defender For Cloud",
"subcategory": "Pricing & Settings",
"text": "Data collection set to 'Common'",
"guid": "64e9a19a-e28c-484c-93b6-b7818ca0e6c4",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/defender-for-cloud/enable-data-collection?tabs=autoprovision-feature#what-event-types-are-stored-for-common-and-minimal"
},
{
"category": "Defender For Cloud",
"subcategory": "Pricing & Settings",
"text": "Defender for Cloud enhanced security features are all enabled",
"guid": "2149d414-a923-4c35-94d1-1029bd6aaf11",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/security-center/enable-azure-defender"
},
{
"category": "Defender For Cloud",
"subcategory": "Pricing & Settings",
"text": "Auto-provisioning enabled as per company policy (policy must exist)",
"guid": "e6b84ee5-ef43-4d29-a248-1718d5d1f5f7",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/security-center/security-center-enable-data-collection"
},
{
"category": "Defender For Cloud",
"subcategory": "Pricing & Settings",
"text": "Email notifications enabled as per company policy (policy must exist)",
"guid": "25759e35-680e-4782-9ac9-32213d027ff4",
"severity": "Low",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/security-center/security-center-provide-security-contact-details"
},
{
"category": "Defender For Cloud",
"subcategory": "Pricing & Settings",
"text": "Enable integrations options are selected ",
"guid": "12f70993-0631-4583-9ee7-9d6c6d363206",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/security-center/security-center-wdatp?WT.mc_id=Portal-Microsoft_Azure_Security_CloudNativeCompute&tabs=windows"
},
{
"category": "Defender For Cloud",
"subcategory": "Pricing & Settings",
"text": "CI/CD integration is configured",
"guid": "5b7abae4-4aad-45e8-a79e-2e86667313c5",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/security-center/defender-for-container-registries-cicd"
},
{
"category": "Defender For Cloud",
"subcategory": "Pricing & Settings",
"text": "Continuous export 'Event Hub' is enabled if using 3rd party SIEM",
"guid": "05675c5e-985b-4859-a774-f7e371623b87",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/security-center/continuous-export?tabs=azure-portal"
},
{
"category": "Defender For Cloud",
"subcategory": "Pricing & Settings",
"text": "Continuous export 'Log Analytics Workspace' is enabled if not using Azure Sentinel",
"guid": "5a917e1f-349f-4036-9d28-d42e8bbbc868",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/security-center/continuous-export?tabs=azure-portal"
},
{
"category": "Defender For Cloud",
"subcategory": "Pricing & Settings",
"text": "Cloud connector enabled for AWS",
"guid": "255abc91-64e9-4a19-ae28-c84c43b6b781",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/security-center/quickstart-onboard-aws?WT.mc_id=Portal-Microsoft_Azure_Security"
},
{
"category": "Defender For Cloud",
"subcategory": "Pricing & Settings",
"text": "Cloud connector enabled for GCP",
"guid": "8ca0e6c4-2149-4d41-9a92-3c3574d11029",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/security-center/quickstart-onboard-gcp"
},
{
"category": "Defender For Cloud",
"subcategory": "Pricing & Settings",
"text": "If using Azure AD Application proxy, consider integrating with Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps to monitor application access in real-time and apply advanced security controls.",
"guid": "cce9bdf6-b483-45a0-85ec-c8232b230652",
"severity": "Low",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/app-proxy/application-proxy-integrate-with-microsoft-cloud-application-security"
},
{
"category": "Defender For Cloud",
"subcategory": "Recommendations",
"text": "All recommendations remediated or disabled if not required.",
"guid": "df9cc234-18db-4611-9126-5f4bb47a393a",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/security-center/secure-score-security-controls"
},
{
"category": "Defender For Cloud",
"subcategory": "Recommendations",
"text": "Security Score>70%",
"description": "Microsoft minimum target for all customers is 70%",
"guid": "08032729-4798-4b15-98a2-19a46ceb5443",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/defender-for-cloud/secure-score-security-controls"
},
{
"category": "Defender For Cloud",
"subcategory": "Secuity Alerts",
"text": "Security Alerts contain only those generated in the past 24 hours (remediate or disable older security alerts)",
"guid": "50259226-4429-42bb-9285-37a55119bf8e",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/defender-for-cloud/tutorial-security-incident"
},
{
"category": "Defender For Cloud",
"subcategory": "Workbooks",
"text": "If continuous export is enabled, default workbooks published to custom security dashboard",
"guid": "8f585428-7d9c-4dc1-96cd-072af9b141a8",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/security-center/custom-dashboards-azure-workbooks"
},
{
"category": "Defender For Cloud",
"subcategory": "Community",
"text": "Customer is aware of the value of the 'Community' page and has a regular cadence set up to review",
"guid": "98a535e7-3789-47e7-8ca7-da7be9962a15",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-defender-for-cloud/bd-p/MicrosoftDefenderCloud"
},
{
"category": "Defender For Cloud",
"subcategory": "Secure Score",
"text": "All subscriptions protected by Security Center are shown (no subscription filter set)",
"description": "Customer Operational best practice - Transparency",
"guid": "93846da9-7cc3-4923-856b-22586f4a1641",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/defender-for-cloud/enable-enhanced-security"
},
{
"category": "Defender For Cloud",
"subcategory": "Regulatory Compliance",
"text": "Compliance controls are green for any required compliance requirements",
"guid": "bdddea8a-487c-4deb-9861-bc3bc14aea6e",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/security-center/security-center-compliance-dashboard"
},
{
"category": "Defender For Cloud",
"subcategory": "Azure Defender",
"text": "High severity VM vulnerabilities is zero (empty)",
"description": "Customer Operational best practice - verify",
"guid": "65e8d9a3-aec2-418e-9436-b0736db55f57",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/defender-for-cloud/remediate-vulnerability-findings-vm"
},
{
"category": "Defender For Cloud",
"subcategory": "Firewall Manager",
"text": "Hubs are protected by an Azure Firewall",
"guid": "9603334b-df9c-4c23-918d-b61171265f4b",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-network-security/azure-firewall-manager-is-now-integrated-with-azure-security/ba-p/2228679"
},
{
"category": "Defender For Cloud",
"subcategory": "Firewall Manager",
"text": "Virtual Networks are protected by a Firewall",
"description": "Customer Operational best practice - verify",
"guid": "b47a393a-0803-4272-a479-8b1578a219a4",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/security/fundamentals/network-best-practices"
},
{
"category": "Defender For Cloud",
"subcategory": "Firewall Manager",
"text": "DDoS Standard enabled",
"guid": "6ceb5443-5025-4922-9442-92bb628537a5",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://azure.microsoft.com/blog/how-azure-security-center-detects-ddos-attack-using-cyber-threat-intelligence/"
},
{
"category": "Defender For Cloud",
"subcategory": "Coverage",
"text": "Verify that all subscriptions are covered (see pricing and settings to modify)",
"guid": "5119bf8e-8f58-4542-a7d9-cdc166cd072a",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/security-center/security-center-get-started?WT.mc_id=Portal-Microsoft_Azure_Security"
},
{
"category": "Azure Networking",
"subcategory": "Public IPs",
"text": "VM's with public IPs should be protected by NSG ",
"guid": "4df585ec-dce9-4793-a7bc-db3b51eb2eb0",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-network/ip-services/public-ip-addresses"
},
{
"category": "Azure Networking",
"subcategory": "Public IPs",
"text": "VMs with public IPs are moved behind Azure Firewall Premium",
"description": "Customer operational best practice - verify",
"guid": "3dda6e59-d7c8-4a2e-bb11-7d6769af669c",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-network/ip-services/public-ip-addresses"
},
{
"category": "Azure Networking",
"subcategory": "Public IPs",
"text": "VM's that don't need public IPs do not have public IPs (i.e. internal RDP only)",
"description": "Customer operational best practice - verify",
"guid": "a48e5a85-f222-43ec-b8bb-12308ca5017f",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-network/ip-services/default-outbound-access"
},
{
"category": "Azure Networking",
"subcategory": "NSG",
"text": "NSG RBAC is used to restrict access to network security team",
"guid": "158e3ea3-a93c-42de-9e31-65c3a87a04b7",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-network/network-security-groups-overview"
},
{
"category": "Azure Networking",
"subcategory": "NSG",
"text": "NSG Inbound security rules do not contain a * (wildcard) in Source field",
"description": "Customer operational best practice - verify",
"guid": "a209939b-da47-4778-b24c-116785c2fa55",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-network/network-security-groups-overview"
},
{
"category": "Azure Networking",
"subcategory": "NSG",
"text": "NSG outbound security rules are used to control traffic to specific IP addresses for traffic not routed through a Firewall",
"description": "Customer operational best practice - verify",
"guid": "b56a9480-08be-47d7-b4c4-76b6d8bdcf59",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-network/network-security-groups-overview"
},
{
"category": "Azure Networking",
"subcategory": "NSG",
"text": "NSG do not have Source as a * (wildcard) in place.",
"description": "Customer operational best practice - verify",
"guid": "bce65de8-a13f-4988-9946-8d66a786d60f",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-network/network-security-groups-overview"
},
{
"category": "Azure Networking",
"subcategory": "NSG",
"text": "NSG Diagnostics send NetworkSecurityGroupEvent and NetworkSecurityGroupRuleCounter traffic to Sentinel LAW",
"guid": "a6c97be9-955d-404c-9c49-c986cb2d1215",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-network/virtual-network-nsg-manage-log"
},
{
"category": "Azure Networking",
"subcategory": "UDR",
"text": "UDR RBAC is used to restrict access to the network security team",
"guid": "aa124b6e-4df5-485e-adce-9793b7bcdb3b",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-network/virtual-networks-udr-overview"
},
{
"category": "Azure Networking",
"subcategory": "UDR",
"text": "If Zero Trust, then UDR's are used to send all traffic to the Azure Firewall Premium",
"guid": "51eb2eb0-3dda-46e5-ad7c-8a2edb117d67",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-network/virtual-networks-udr-overview"
},
{
"category": "Azure Networking",
"subcategory": "UDR",
"text": "UDR's that do not send all traffic to AzureFirewallPremium are known and documented.",
"description": "Customer operational best practice - verify",
"guid": "69af669c-a48e-45a8-9f22-23ece8bb1230",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-network/virtual-networks-udr-overview"
},
{
"category": "Azure Networking",
"subcategory": "Virtual Networks",
"text": "Customer is familiar with Azure networking defaults / SDN default routing in Azure",
"guid": "8ca5017f-158e-43ea-9a93-c2de7e3165c3",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-network/virtual-networks-udr-overview#default"
},
{
"category": "Azure Networking",
"subcategory": "Virtual Networks",
"text": "VNet RBAC is used to restrict access to the network security team",
"description": "Customer operational best practice - verify",
"guid": "a87a04b7-a209-4939-ada4-7778f24c1167",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs/issues/53672"
},
{
"category": "Azure Networking",
"subcategory": "Virtual Networks",
"text": "VNet Security recommendations are remediated and there are no 'At-risk' VNets ",
"guid": "85c2fa55-b56a-4948-808b-e7d7e4c476b6",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-network/policy-reference"
},
{
"category": "Azure Networking",
"subcategory": "Virtual Networks",
"text": "VNet Peering connections are understood and expected traffic flows are documented",
"guid": "d8bdcf59-bce6-45de-aa13-f98879468d66",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-network/virtual-network-peering-overview"
},
{
"category": "Azure Networking",
"subcategory": "Virtual Networks",
"text": "VNet Service Endpoints are in use, no legacy Public Service Endpoints exist",
"guid": "a786d60f-a6c9-47be-a955-d04c3c49c986",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-network/virtual-network-service-endpoints-overview"
},
{
"category": "Azure Networking",
"subcategory": "Virtual Networks",
"text": "VNet Private Endpoints are in use to allow access from on-premises environments, no legacy public endpoints exist",
"guid": "1f625659-ee55-480a-9824-9c931213dbd7",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/private-link/private-endpoint-overview"
},
{
"category": "Azure Networking",
"subcategory": "Virtual Networks",
"text": "VNet Monitoring enabled",
"guid": "fb012f70-943f-4630-9722-ea39d2b1ce63",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-network/monitor-virtual-network"
},
{
"category": "Azure Networking",
"subcategory": "Virtual Networks",
"text": "Secure traffic between pods using network policies in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)",
"guid": "2055b29b-ade4-4aad-8e8c-39ec94666731",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-network/kubernetes-network-policies"
},
{
"category": "Azure Networking",
"subcategory": "Virtual Networks",
"text": "VNet NVA (appliances) customer follows published architecture pattern",
"guid": "3c005674-c1e9-445b-959c-373e7ed71623",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-network/virtual-network-scenario-udr-gw-nva"
},
{
"category": "Azure Networking",
"subcategory": "Virtual Networks",
"text": "VNet Diagnostic settings are enabled and sending VMProtectionAlerts to the Azure Sentinel LAW",
"guid": "b375a917-ecbe-448f-ae64-dd7df2e8bbbc",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-network/monitor-virtual-network"
},
{
"category": "Azure Networking",
"subcategory": "Connectivity",
"text": "Use ExpressRoute or VPN to access Azure resources from on-premises environments",
"guid": "468155ab-c916-44e9-a09a-ed8c44cf3b2b",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/ready/azure-best-practices/connectivity-to-azure"
},
{
"category": "Azure Networking",
"subcategory": "Virtual WAN",
"text": "VWAN RBAC is used to restrict access to the network security team",
"guid": "bd8ac2aa-ebca-42a4-9da1-dbf3dd992481",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-wan/virtual-wan-about"
},
{
"category": "Azure Networking",
"subcategory": "Virtual WAN",
"text": "VWAN Customer is using Secure Hub or external Firewall to route and monitor traffic.",
"guid": "718d1dca-1f62-4565-aee5-580a38249c93",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-wan/virtual-wan-global-transit-network-architecture"
},
{
"category": "Azure Networking",
"subcategory": "Application Gateway",
"text": "AppGW RBAC is used to restrict access to the network security team",
"guid": "1213dbd7-fb01-42f7-8943-f6304722ea39",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/web-application-firewall/overview"
},
{
"category": "Azure Networking",
"subcategory": "Application Gateway",
"text": "AppGW All external facing web services are behing Application Gateways with WAF enabled ",
"guid": "d2b1ce63-2055-4b29-aade-4aad1e8c39ec",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/application-gateway/configuration-front-end-ip"
},
{
"category": "Azure Networking",
"subcategory": "Application Gateway",
"text": "AppGW All internal facing web services are behing Application Gateways with WAF enabled ",
"guid": "94666731-3c00-4567-9c1e-945b459c373e",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/application-gateway/configuration-front-end-ip"
},
{
"category": "Azure Networking",
"subcategory": "Application Gateway",
"text": "AppGW - External facing has TLS/SSL enabled and redirects all traffic to 443 (no port 80 traffic)",
"guid": "7ed71623-b375-4a91-9ecb-e48fbe64dd7d",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/application-gateway/ssl-overview"
},
{
"category": "Azure Networking",
"subcategory": "FrontDoor",
"text": "Front Door RBAC is used to restrict access to the network security team",
"guid": "f2e8bbbc-4681-455a-ac91-64e9909aed8c",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/frontdoor/"
},
{
"category": "Azure Networking",
"subcategory": "FrontDoor",
"text": "Front Door is associated with a WAF policy",
"guid": "44cf3b2b-3818-4baf-a2cf-2149d013a923",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/security/benchmark/azure/baselines/front-door-security-baseline?toc=/azure/frontdoor/TOC.json"
},
{
"category": "Azure Networking",
"subcategory": "FrontDoor",
"text": "Front Door TLS/SSL policy is configured",
"guid": "ce574dcc-bd8a-4c2a-aebc-a2a44da1dbf3",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/frontdoor/front-door-custom-domain-https"
},
{
"category": "Azure Networking",
"subcategory": "FrontDoor",
"text": "Front Door redirect port 80 to port 443 is configured (listeners)",
"guid": "dd992481-718d-41dc-a1f6-25659ee5580a",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/frontdoor/front-door-url-redirect"
},
{
"category": "Azure Networking",
"subcategory": "FrontDoor",
"text": "Front Door diagnostics logs send ApplicationGatewayAccessLog &ApplicationGateway FirewallLog to Sentinel LAW",
"guid": "38249c93-1213-4dbd-9fb0-12f70943f630",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/frontdoor/front-door-diagnostics"
},
{
"category": "Azure Networking",
"subcategory": "DDOS Protection",
"text": "Enabled for Firewall public IP's (all public IPs)",
"guid": "4722ea39-d2b1-4ce6-9205-5b29bade4aad",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/security/fundamentals/ddos-best-practices"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Tenant",
"text": "Establish a single enterprise directory for managing identities of full-time employees and enterprise resources.",
"guid": "346ad56f-bdb8-44db-8bcd-0a689af63f1e",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/security/compass/identity#a-single-enterprise-directory"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Tenant",
"text": "Synchronize your cloud identity with your existing identity systems.",
"guid": "a46108cd-6a76-4749-ae69-b7bf61410010",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/security/compass/identity#synchronized-identity-systems"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Tenant",
"text": "Use cloud identity services to host non-employee accounts such as vendors, partners, and customers, rather than rather than including them in your on-premises directory.",
"guid": "a1ab96ceb-c149-4ce2-bcad-3bd375ebfc7f",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/security/compass/identity#cloud-provider-identity-source-for-third-parties"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Tenant",
"text": "Disable insecure legacy protocols for internet-facing services.",
"guid": "343473ec-ed5c-49e1-98f4-cb09524a23cd",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/security/compass/identity#block-legacy-authentication"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Tenant",
"text": "Enable single sign-on",
"guid": "70dceb23-50c7-4d8d-bf53-8cc104c7dc44",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/security/fundamentals/identity-management-best-practices#enable-single-sign-on"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Privileged administration",
"text": "Don’t synchronize accounts with the highest privilege access to on-premises resources as you synchronize your enterprise identity systems with cloud directories.",
"guid": "87791be1-1eb0-48ed-8003-ad9bcf241b99",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/security/compass/identity#no-on-premises-admin-accounts-in-cloud-identity-providers"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Privileged administration",
"text": "Limit the number of Global Administrators to less than 5",
"guid": "9e6efe9d-f28f-463b-9bff-b5080173e9fe",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/roles/best-practices#5-limit-the-number-of-global-administrators-to-less-than-5"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Privileged administration",
"text": "Use groups for Azure AD role assignments and delegate the role assignment",
"guid": "e0d968d3-87f6-41fb-a4f9-d852f1673f4c",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/roles/best-practices#6-use-groups-for-azure-ad-role-assignments-and-delegate-the-role-assignment"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Privileged administration",
"text": "Ensure all critical impact admins are managed by enterprise directory to follow organizational policy enforcement.",
"guid": "00350863-4df6-4050-9cf1-cbaa6d58283e",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/architecture/framework/security/design-admins#managed-accounts-for-admins"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Privileged administration",
"text": "Configure recurring access reviews to revoke unneeded permissions over time",
"guid": "eae64d01-0d3a-4ae1-a89d-cc1c2ad3888f",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/roles/best-practices#4-configure-recurring-access-reviews-to-revoke-unneeded-permissions-over-time"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Privileged administration",
"text": "Ensure critical impact admins use a workstation with elevated security protections and monitoring",
"guid": "922ac19f-916d-4697-b8ea-ded26bdd186f",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/architecture/framework/security/design-admins#admin-workstation-security"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "External Identities",
"text": "Identity Providers: Verify external identity providers are known",
"guid": "1e8c39ec-9466-4673-83c0-05674c1e945b",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/external-identities/compare-with-b2c"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "External Identities",
"text": "External Collaboration Settings: Guest user access set to 'Guest user access is restricted?'",
"guid": "459c373e-7ed7-4162-9b37-5a917ecbe48f",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/external-identities/delegate-invitations"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "External Identities",
"text": "External Collaboration Settings: Guest invite settings set to 'Only users assigned to specific admin roles'",
"guid": "be64dd7d-f2e8-4bbb-a468-155abc9164e9",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/external-identities/delegate-invitations"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "External Identities",
"text": "External Collaboration Settings: Enable guest self-service sign up via flows set to 'Disabled' ",
"guid": "909aed8c-44cf-43b2-a381-8bafa2cf2149",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/external-identities/delegate-invitations"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "External Identities",
"text": "External Collaboration Settings: Collaboration restrictions set to 'Allow invitations to the specified domains'",
"guid": "d013a923-ce57-44dc-abd8-ac2aaebca2a4",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/external-identities/delegate-invitations"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "External Identities",
"text": "Access Reviews: Enabled for all groups",
"guid": "4da1dbf3-dd99-4248-8718-d1dca1f62565",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/governance/deploy-access-reviews"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Enterprise Applications",
"text": "Consent & Permissions: Allow user consent for apps from verified publishers",
"guid": "9ee5580a-3824-49c9-9121-3dbd7fb012f7",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/manage-apps/configure-user-consent"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Enterprise Applications",
"text": "Consent & Permissions: Allow group owner consent for selected group owners ",
"guid": "0943f630-4722-4ea3-ad2b-1ce632055b29",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/manage-apps/configure-user-consent-groups"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Custom Domains",
"text": "Only validated customer domains are registered",
"guid": "bade4aad-1e8c-439e-a946-667313c00567",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/app-proxy/application-proxy-configure-custom-domain"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Password Reset",
"text": "Self-service password reset policy requirement verified compliant.",
"guid": "4c1e945b-459c-4373-b7ed-71623b375a91",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/authentication/tutorial-enable-sspr"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Password Reset",
"text": "Set number of days before users are asked to re-confirm authentication information is not set to zero",
"guid": "7ecbe48f-be64-4dd7-bf2e-8bbbc468155a",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/authentication/howto-sspr-deployment"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Password Reset",
"text": "Set number of methods required to reset password are selected",
"guid": "bc9164e9-909a-4ed8-a44c-f3b2b3818baf",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/authentication/howto-sspr-deployment"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "User Setting",
"text": "Disable 'Users can register applications'",
"guid": "a2cf2149-d013-4a92-9ce5-74dccbd8ac2a",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/roles/delegate-app-roles"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "User Setting",
"text": "Restrict access to Administrative portal (portal.azure.com) to administrators only",
"guid": "aebca2a4-4da1-4dbf-9dd9-92481718d1dc",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/fundamentals/users-default-permissions"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "User Setting",
"text": "Disable 'LinkedIn account connection'",
"guid": "a1f62565-9ee5-4580-a382-49c931213dbd",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/enterprise-users/linkedin-integration"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Diagnostic Settings",
"text": "Enabled and send to Log Analytics workspace with Sentinel",
"guid": "7fb012f7-0943-4f63-8472-2ea39d2b1ce6",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/reports-monitoring/overview-monitoring"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "PIM enabled",
"text": "Privileged Identity Management enabled",
"guid": "21e44a19-a9dd-4399-afd7-b28dc8355562",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/privileged-identity-management/pim-deployment-plan"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "PIM enabled",
"text": "Implement 'just in time' (JIT) access to further lower the exposure time for privileged accounts (reduce standing access)",
"guid": "46f4389a-7f42-4c78-b78c-06a63a21a495",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/defender-for-cloud/just-in-time-access-usage?tabs=jit-config-asc%2Cjit-request-asc"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Conditional Access Policies",
"text": "Configure conditional access policies / Access Controls",
"guid": "6e6a8dc4-a20e-427b-9e29-711b1352beee",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/conditional-access/concept-conditional-access-policy-common"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Conditional Access Policies",
"text": "Conditions: Restricted Locations",
"guid": "079b588d-efc4-4972-ac3c-d21bf77036e5",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/conditional-access/location-condition"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Conditional Access Policies",
"text": "Access Controls: MFA enabled for all users",
"guid": "e6b4bed3-d5f3-4547-a134-7dc56028a71f",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/authentication/tutorial-enable-azure-mfa"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Conditional Access Policies",
"text": "Access Controls: Require MFA for Administrators",
"guid": "fe1bd15d-d2f0-4d5e-972d-41e3611cc57b",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/conditional-access/howto-conditional-access-policy-admin-mfa"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Conditional Access Policies",
"text": "Access Controls: Require MFA for Azure Management ",
"guid": "4a4b1410-d439-4589-ac22-89b3d6b57cfc",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/conditional-access/howto-conditional-access-policy-azure-management"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Conditional Access Policies",
"text": "Access Controls: Block Legacy Protocols",
"guid": "645461e1-a3e3-4453-a3c8-639637a552d6",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/conditional-access/howto-conditional-access-policy-block-legacy"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Conditional Access Policies",
"text": "Access Controls: Require devices to be marked as compliant",
"guid": "7ae9eab4-0fd3-4290-998b-c178bdc5a06c",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/conditional-access/require-managed-devices"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Guest users",
"text": "Is there a policy to track guest user accounts (i.e. usage/delete/disable)?",
"description": "Customer documented policy",
"guid": "a7144351-e19d-4d34-929e-b7228137a151",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://devblogs.microsoft.com/premier-developer/azure-active-directory-automating-guest-user-management/"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Identity Secure Score",
"text": "Implement Identity Secure Score based on best practices in your industry",
"guid": "c5bb4e4f-1814-4287-b5ca-8c26c9b32ab5",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/fundamentals/identity-secure-score"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Break Glass Accounts",
"text": "At least two break glass accounts have been created and policy around their use exists",
"guid": "bcfc6998-a135-4e33-9897-e31c67d68cb6",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/roles/security-emergency-access"
},
{
"category": "VM Security Checks",
"subcategory": "Access Control",
"text": "Control VM Access leveraging Azure Policy",
"guid": "0ac252b9-99a6-48af-a7c9-a8f821b8eb8c",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/governance/policy/overview"
},
{
"category": "VM Security Checks",
"subcategory": "Access Control",
"text": "Reduce variability in your setup and deployment of VMs by leveraging templates",
"guid": "0aa77e26-e4d5-4aea-a8dc-4e2436bc336d",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-resource-manager/templates/syntax"
},
{
"category": "VM Security Checks",
"subcategory": "Access Control",
"text": "Secure privileged access to deploy VMS by reducing who has access to Resources through Governance",
"guid": "b5945bda-4333-44fd-b91c-234182b65275",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/windows-server/identity/ad-ds/plan/security-best-practices/implementing-least-privilege-administrative-models"
},
{
"category": "VM Security Checks",
"subcategory": "High Availability ",
"text": "Use multiple VMs for your workloads for better availability ",
"guid": "269440b4-be3d-43e0-a432-76d4bdc015bc",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/architecture/checklist/resiliency-per-service"
},
{
"category": "VM Security Checks",
"subcategory": "High Availability ",
"text": "Deploy and test a disaster recovery solution ",
"guid": "f219e4a1-eb58-4879-935d-227886d30b66",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/backup/backup-azure-vms-first-look-arm"
},
{
"category": "VM Security Checks",
"subcategory": "High Availability ",
"text": "Availabilty sets",
"guid": "c57be595-1900-4838-95c5-86cb291ec16a",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-machines/availability-set-overview"
},
{
"category": "VM Security Checks",
"subcategory": "High Availability ",
"text": "Availability Zones",
"guid": "1d076ef9-f141-4acd-ae57-9377bcdb3751",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/availability-zones/az-overview?context=/azure/virtual-machines/context/context"
},
{
"category": "VM Security Checks",
"subcategory": "High Availability ",
"text": "Regional fault tolerance ",
"guid": "ab2ac1fa-d66e-415d-9d5a-2adb2c3e2326",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/architecture/resiliency/recovery-loss-azure-region"
},
{
"category": "VM Security Checks",
"subcategory": "Protect against malware",
"text": "Install antimalware solutions",
"guid": "af225ca4-4e16-496f-bdde-ace4cb1deb4c",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/security/fundamentals/antimalware"
},
{
"category": "VM Security Checks",
"subcategory": "Protect against malware",
"text": "Integrate antimalware solution with Security Center",
"guid": "650c3fc1-4eeb-4b36-a382-9e3eec218368",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/security-center/security-center-partner-integration"
},
{
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"subcategory": "Manage VM Updates",
"text": "Keep VMs up to date using Update Management with Azure Automation",
"guid": "7a0177a2-b594-45bd-a433-34fdf91c2341",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/automation/update-management/overview"
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{
"category": "VM Security Checks",
"subcategory": "Manage VM Updates",
"text": "Ensure Windows images for deployment have the most recent level of updates ",
"guid": "c6fa96b9-6ad8-4840-af37-2734c876ba28",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-machines/automatic-vm-guest-patching"
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{
"category": "VM Security Checks",
"subcategory": "Manage VM Updates",
"text": "Rapidly apply security updates to VMs using Microsoft Defender for Cloud",
"guid": "02145901-465d-438e-9309-ccbd979266bc",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/security-center/asset-inventory"
},
{
"category": "VM Security Checks",
"subcategory": "Encrypt your VHDs",
"text": "Enable encryption on your VMs",
"guid": "ca274faa-19bf-439d-a5d4-4c7c8919ca1f",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-machines/disk-encryption-overview"
},
{
"category": "VM Security Checks",
"subcategory": "Encrypt your VHDs",
"text": "Add Key Encryption Key (KEK) for added layer of security for encryption ",
"guid": "6d5315ae-524b-4a34-b458-5e12139bd7bb",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-machines/windows/disk-encryption-key-vault#set-up-a-key-encryption-key-kek"
},
{
"category": "VM Security Checks",
"subcategory": "Encrypt your VHDs",
"text": "Take a snapshot of disks before encryption for rollback purposes",
"guid": "012f7b95-e06e-4154-b2aa-3592828e6e20",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-machines/windows/snapshot-copy-managed-disk"
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{
"category": "VM Security Checks",
"subcategory": "Restrict direct internet connection ",
"text": "Ensure only the central networking group has permissions to networking resources ",
"guid": "5173676a-e466-491e-a835-ad942223e138",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/role-based-access-control/built-in-roles"
},
{
"category": "VM Security Checks",
"subcategory": "Restrict direct internet connection ",
"text": "Identity and remediate exposed VMs that allow access from 'ANY' source IP addess",
"guid": "10523081-a941-4741-9833-ff7ad7c6d373",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/security-center/security-center-partner-integration"
},
{
"category": "VM Security Checks",
"subcategory": "Restrict direct internet connection ",
"text": "Restrict management ports (RDP, SSH) using Just-in-Time Access",
"guid": "75a91be1-f388-4f03-a4d2-cd463cbbbc86",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/security-center/security-center-just-in-time"
},
{
"category": "VM Security Checks",
"subcategory": "Restrict direct internet connection ",
"text": "Remove internet access and implement jump servers for RDP",
"guid": "8295abc9-1a4e-4da0-bae2-cc84c47b6b78",
"severity": "High",
"link": "http://docs.microsoft.com/answers/questions/171195/how-to-create-jump-server-in-azure-not-bastion-paa.html"
},
{
"category": "VM Security Checks",
"subcategory": "Restrict direct internet connection ",
"text": "Remove direct logging into servers using RDP/SSH from internet and implement VPN or express route",
"guid": "1cbafe6c-4658-49d4-98a9-27c3974d1102",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/vpn-gateway/vpn-gateway-about-forced-tunneling"
},
{
"category": "VM Security Checks",
"subcategory": "Restrict direct internet connection ",
"text": "Leverage Azure Bastion as your RDP/SSH broker for added security and reduction in footprint",
"guid": "dad6aae1-1e6b-484e-b5df-47d2d92881b1",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/bastion/bastion-overview"
},
{
"category": "Sentinel",
"subcategory": "Architecture ",
"text": "All tenants contain have Sentinel enabled on at least one Log Analytics workspace",
"guid": "cd5d1e54-a297-459e-9968-0e78289c9356",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/sentinel/quickstart-onboard"
},
{
"category": "Sentinel",
"subcategory": "Architecture ",
"text": "Customer understands Sentinel architecture",
"guid": "57d02bff-4564-4b0d-a34a-359836ee79d6",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/sentinel/best-practices-workspace-architecture"
},
{
"category": "Sentinel",
"subcategory": "Architecture ",
"text": "Customer knows how to monitor Incidents across multiple Sentinel instances",
"guid": "e8f5c586-c7d9-4cdc-86ac-c075ef9b141a",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/sentinel/multiple-workspace-view"
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