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Policy: 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

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

Resource Types

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This policy is used with the following primary policy:

Controls

Policy Specification

Schema Type
string
Default
Per Azure > CIS v1.2 > 7 - Virtual Machines
Valid Values [YAML]
  • Per Azure > CIS v1.2 > 7 - Virtual Machines
    
  • Skip
    
  • Check: Level 1 (Scored)
    

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