📝 Azure Subscription Vulnerability Assessment is not auto provisioned 🟢

• Contextual name: 📝 Vulnerability Assessment is not auto provisioned 🟢
• ID: /ce/ca/azure/subscription/vulnerability-assessment-auto-provisioning
• Located in: 📁 Azure Subscription

Flags

• 🟢 Impossible policy
• 🟢 Policy with categories
• 🟢 Policy with type

Our Metadata

• Policy Type: COMPLIANCE_POLICY
• Policy Category:
  • SECURITY

Similar Policies

• Cloud Conformity
  • Enable Automatic Provisioning of Vulnerability Assessment for Virtual Machines

Description

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Description

Enable automatic provisioning of vulnerability assessment for machines on both Azure and hybrid (Arc enabled) machines.

Rationale

Vulnerability assessment for machines scans for various security-related configurations and events such as system updates, OS vulnerabilities, and endpoint protection, then produces alerts on threat and vulnerability findings.

Impact

Additional licensing is required and configuration of Azure Arc introduces complexity beyond this recommendation.

Audit

From Azure Portal

1. From Azure Home select the Portal Menu.
2. Select Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
3. Under Management, select Environment Settings.
4. Select a subscription.
5. Click on Settings & monitoring.
6. Ensure that Vulnerability assessment for machines is set to On.

Repeat the above for any additional subscriptions.

Default Value

By default, Automatic provisioning of monitoring agent is set to Off.

References

1. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/defender-for-cloud/enable-data-collection?tabs=autoprovision-va

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Remediation

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Remediation

From Azure Portal

1. From Azure Home select the Portal Menu.
2. Select Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
3. Under Management, select Environment Settings.
4. Select a subscription.
5. Click on Settings & Monitoring.
6. Set the Status of Vulnerability assessment for machines to On.
7. Click Continue.

Repeat the above for any additional subscriptions.

policy.yaml

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Linked Framework Sections

Section	Sub Sections	Internal Rules	Policies	Flags
💼 CIS Azure v2.1.0 → 💼 2.1.15 Ensure that Auto provisioning of 'Vulnerability assessment for machines' is Set to 'On' - Level 2 (Manual)			1
💼 CIS Azure v3.0.0 → 💼 3.1.3.2 Ensure that 'Vulnerability assessment for machines' component status is set to 'On' (Manual)			1
💼 Cloudaware Framework → 💼 Microsoft Defender Configuration			26