Policy: Azure > CIS v3.0 > 06 - Logging & Monitoring > 06.01 - Configuring Diagnostic Settings > 06.01.05 - Ensure that Network Security Group Flow logs are captured and sent to Log Analytics

Configures auditing against a CIS Benchmark item.

Level: 2

Ensure that network flow logs are captured and fed into a central log analytics workspace.

Network Flow Logs provide valuable insight into the flow of traffic around your network and feed into both Azure Monitor and Azure Sentinel (if in use), permitting the generation of visual flow diagrams to aid with analyzing for lateral movement, etc.

Targets

This policy targets the following resource types:

Azure > Network Watcher > Flow Log

Primary Policy

This policy is used with the following primary policy:

Azure > CIS v3.0 > 06 - Logging & Monitoring > 06.01 - Configuring Diagnostic Settings

Controls

Setting this policy configures this control:

Azure > CIS v3.0 > 06 - Logging & Monitoring > 06.01 - Configuring Diagnostic Settings > 06.01.05 - Ensure that Network Security Group Flow logs are captured and sent to Log Analytics

Policy Specification

Schema Type	`string`
Default	`Per Azure > CIS v3.0 > 06 - Logging & Monitoring`
Valid Values [YAML]	`Per Azure > CIS v3.0 > 06 - Logging & Monitoring` `Skip` `Check: Benchmark`

In Your Workspace

Policy Settings by Type report

Developers

Category URI

tmod:@turbot/cis#/control/categories/v071208

Policy Type URI

tmod:@turbot/azure-cisv3-0#/policy/types/r060105

GraphQL

query policyType(id: "tmod:@turbot/azure-cisv3-0#/policy/types/r060105") { … }

query policySettings(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/azure-cisv3-0#/policy/types/r060105'") { … }

query policyValues(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/azure-cisv3-0#/policy/types/r060105'") { … }

CLI

Get Policy Type

turbot graphql policy-type --id "tmod:@turbot/azure-cisv3-0#/policy/types/r060105"

Get Policy Settings

turbot graphql policy-settings --filter "policyTypeId:tmod:@turbot/azure-cisv3-0#/policy/types/r060105"