🛡️ Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark policies are disabled🟢⚪

• Contextual name: 🛡️ Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark policies are disabled🟢⚪
• ID: /ce/ca/azure/microsoft-defender/microsoft-cloud-security-benchmark-policies
• Tags:
  • ⚪ Impossible policy
  • 🟢 Policy with categories
  • 🟢 Policy with type
• Policy Type: COMPLIANCE_POLICY
• Policy Categories: SECURITY

Description

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Description

The Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark (or "MCSB") is an Azure Policy Initiative containing many security policies to evaluate resource configuration against best practice recommendations. If a non-deprecated policy in the MCSB is set with effect type Disabled, it is not evaluated and may prevent administrators from being informed of valuable security recommendations.

Rationale

A security policy defines the desired configuration of resources in your environment and helps ensure compliance with company or regulatory security requirements. The MCSB Policy Initiative is a set of security recommendations based on best practices and is associated with every subscription by default. When a policy "Effect" is set to Audit, policies in the MCSB ensure that Defender for Cloud evaluates relevant resources for supported recommendations. To ensure that supported policies within the MCSB are not being missed when the Policy Initiative is evaluated, non-deprecated policies should not have an Effect of Disabled.

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Remediation

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Remediation

From Azure Portal

1. In the Azure portal, open the portal menu.
2. Select Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
3. Under Management, select Environment Settings.
4. Click on the appropriate Management Group or Subscription.
5. Click on Security policies in the left column.
6. Select Microsoft cloud security benchmark.
7. Click Add Filter and select Effect.
8. Check the Disabled box to search for all disabled policies.
9. Click Apply.
10. Click the blue ellipsis ... to the right of a policy name.
11. Click Manage effect and parameters.
12. Under Policy effect, select the radio button next to Audit.
13. Click Save.
14. Click Refresh.
15. Repeat steps 10-14 until all non-deprecated disabled policies are updated.
16. Repeat steps 1-15 for each Management Group or Subscription requiring remediation.

policy.yaml

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Linked Framework Sections

Section	Sub Sections	Internal Rules	Policies	Flags	Compliance
💼 CIS Azure v5.0.0 → 💼 8.1.11 Ensure that Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark policies are not set to 'Disabled' (Manual)			1		no data
💼 CIS Azure v6.0.0 → 💼 8.1.11 Ensure that non-deprecated Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark policies are not set to 'Disabled' (Manual)			1		no data
💼 Cloudaware Framework → 💼 Microsoft Defender Configuration			29		no data