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📝 Azure Privileged Role Assignments are not periodically reviewed 🟢

  • Contextual name: 📝 Privileged Role Assignments are not periodically reviewed 🟢
  • ID: /ce/ca/azure/subscription/privileged-role-assignments
  • Located in: 📁 Azure Subscription

Flags​

Our Metadata​

  • Policy Type: COMPLIANCE_POLICY
  • Policy Category:
    • SECURITY

Description​

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Description​

Periodic review of privileged role assignments is performed to ensure that the privileged roles assigned to users are accurate and appropriate.

Rationale​

Privileged roles are crown jewel assets that can be used by malicious insiders, threat actors, and even through mistake to significantly damage an organization in numerous ways. These roles should be periodically reviewed to:

  • identify lingering permissions assignment (e.g. an administrator has been terminated, the administrator account is being retained, but the permissions are no longer necessary and has not been properly addressed by process)
  • detect lateral movement through privilege escalation (e.g. an account with administrative permission has been compromised and is elevating other accounts in an attempt to circumvent detection mechanisms)

Impact​

Increased administrative effort to manage and remove role assignments appropriately.

Audit​

From Azure Portal​
  1. From Azure Home select the Portal Menu.
  2. Select Subscriptions.
  3. Select a subscription.

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Remediation​

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Remediation​

policy.yaml​

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Linked Framework Sections​

SectionSub SectionsInternal RulesPoliciesFlags
💼 CIS Azure v4.0.0 → 💼 6.3.4 Ensure that all 'privileged' role assignments are periodically reviewed (Manual)1
💼 Cloudaware Framework → 💼 Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) Management13