Control: Azure > CIS v1.2 > 7 - Virtual Machines > 7.01 - Ensure Virtual Machines are utilizing Managed Disks (Scored)

Configures auditing against a CIS Benchmark item.

Level: 1 (Scored)

Migrate BLOB based VHD's to Managed Disks on Virtual Machines to exploit the default features of this configuration. The features include

Default Disk Encryption
Resilience as Microsoft will managed the disk storage and move around if underlying hardware goes faulty
Reduction of costs over storage accounts

Resource Types

This control targets the following resource types:

The following policies can be used to configure this control:

Control Type URI

tmod:@turbot/azure-cisv1-2#/control/types/r0701

Category URI

tmod:@turbot/cis#/control/categories/v0713

GraphQL

query controlType(id: "tmod:@turbot/azure-cisv1-2#/control/types/r0701") { … }

query controls(filter: "controlTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/azure-cisv1-2#/control/types/r0701'") { … }

CLI

Get Controls

turbot graphql controls --filter "controlTypeId:tmod:@turbot/azure-cisv1-2#/control/types/r0701"