Policy: Azure > CIS v4.0 > 07 - Management and Governance

Covers security recommendations to follow to set logging and monitoring policies on an Azure Subscription.

Targets

This policy targets the following resource types:

Primary Policy

This policy is used with the following primary policy:

Azure > CIS v4.0

Controls

Setting this policy configures these controls:

Azure > CIS v4.0 > 07 - Management and Governance > 07.01 - Logging and Monitoring > 07.01.01 - Configuring Diagnostic Settings > 07.01.01.01 - Ensure that a 'Diagnostic Setting' exists for Subscription Activity Logs
Azure > CIS v4.0 > 07 - Management and Governance > 07.01 - Logging and Monitoring > 07.01.01 - Configuring Diagnostic Settings > 07.01.01.02 - Ensure Diagnostic Setting captures appropriate categories
Azure > CIS v4.0 > 07 - Management and Governance > 07.01 - Logging and Monitoring > 07.01.01 - Configuring Diagnostic Settings > 07.01.01.03 - Ensure the storage account containing the container with activity logs is encrypted with Customer Managed Key (CMK)
Azure > CIS v4.0 > 07 - Management and Governance > 07.01 - Logging and Monitoring > 07.01.01 - Configuring Diagnostic Settings > 07.01.01.04 - Ensure that logging for Azure Key Vault is 'Enabled'
Azure > CIS v4.0 > 07 - Management and Governance > 07.01 - Logging and Monitoring > 07.01.01 - Configuring Diagnostic Settings > 07.01.01.05 - Ensure that Network Security Group Flow logs are captured and sent to Log Analytics
Azure > CIS v4.0 > 07 - Management and Governance > 07.01 - Logging and Monitoring > 07.01.01 - Configuring Diagnostic Settings > 07.01.01.06 - Ensure that logging for Azure AppService 'HTTP logs' is enabled
Azure > CIS v4.0 > 07 - Management and Governance > 07.01 - Logging and Monitoring > 07.01.01 - Configuring Diagnostic Settings > 07.01.01.07 - Ensure that virtual network flow logs are captured and sent to Log Analytics
Azure > CIS v4.0 > 07 - Management and Governance > 07.01 - Logging and Monitoring > 07.01.01 - Configuring Diagnostic Settings > 07.01.01.08 - Ensure that a Microsoft Entra diagnostic setting exists to send Microsoft Graph activity logs to an appropriate destination
Azure > CIS v4.0 > 07 - Management and Governance > 07.01 - Logging and Monitoring > 07.01.01 - Configuring Diagnostic Settings > 07.01.01.09 - Ensure that a Microsoft Entra diagnostic setting exists to send Microsoft Entra activity logs to an appropriate destination
Azure > CIS v4.0 > 07 - Management and Governance > 07.01 - Logging and Monitoring > 07.01.01 - Configuring Diagnostic Settings > 07.01.01.10 - Ensure that Intune logs are captured and sent to Log Analytics
Azure > CIS v4.0 > 07 - Management and Governance > 07.01 - Logging and Monitoring > 07.01.02 - Monitoring using Activity Log Alerts > 07.01.02.01 - Ensure that Activity Log Alert exists for Create Policy Assignment
Azure > CIS v4.0 > 07 - Management and Governance > 07.01 - Logging and Monitoring > 07.01.02 - Monitoring using Activity Log Alerts > 07.01.02.02 - Ensure that Activity Log Alert exists for Delete Policy Assignment
Azure > CIS v4.0 > 07 - Management and Governance > 07.01 - Logging and Monitoring > 07.01.02 - Monitoring using Activity Log Alerts > 07.01.02.03 - Ensure that Activity Log Alert exists for Create or Update Network Security Group
Azure > CIS v4.0 > 07 - Management and Governance > 07.01 - Logging and Monitoring > 07.01.02 - Monitoring using Activity Log Alerts > 07.01.02.04 - Ensure that Activity Log Alert exists for Delete Network Security Group
Azure > CIS v4.0 > 07 - Management and Governance > 07.01 - Logging and Monitoring > 07.01.02 - Monitoring using Activity Log Alerts > 07.01.02.05 - Ensure that Activity Log Alert exists for Create or Update Security Solution
Azure > CIS v4.0 > 07 - Management and Governance > 07.01 - Logging and Monitoring > 07.01.02 - Monitoring using Activity Log Alerts > 07.01.02.06 - Ensure that Activity Log Alert exists for Delete Security Solution
Azure > CIS v4.0 > 07 - Management and Governance > 07.01 - Logging and Monitoring > 07.01.02 - Monitoring using Activity Log Alerts > 07.01.02.07 - Ensure that Activity Log Alert exists for Create or Update SQL Server Firewall Rule
Azure > CIS v4.0 > 07 - Management and Governance > 07.01 - Logging and Monitoring > 07.01.02 - Monitoring using Activity Log Alerts > 07.01.02.08 - Ensure that Activity Log Alert exists for Delete SQL Server Firewall Rule
Azure > CIS v4.0 > 07 - Management and Governance > 07.01 - Logging and Monitoring > 07.01.02 - Monitoring using Activity Log Alerts > 07.01.02.09 - Ensure that Activity Log Alert exists for Create or Update Public IP Address rule
Azure > CIS v4.0 > 07 - Management and Governance > 07.01 - Logging and Monitoring > 07.01.02 - Monitoring using Activity Log Alerts > 07.01.02.10 - Ensure that Activity Log Alert exists for Delete Public IP Address rule
Azure > CIS v4.0 > 07 - Management and Governance > 07.01 - Logging and Monitoring > 07.01.02 - Monitoring using Activity Log Alerts > 07.01.02.11 - Ensure that Activity Log Alert exists for Service Health
Azure > CIS v4.0 > 07 - Management and Governance > 07.01 - Logging and Monitoring > 07.01.03 - Configuring Application Insights > 07.01.03.01 - Ensure Application Insights are Configured
Azure > CIS v4.0 > 07 - Management and Governance > 07.01 - Logging and Monitoring > 07.01.04 - Ensure that Azure Monitor Resource Logging is Enabled for All Services that Support it
Azure > CIS v4.0 > 07 - Management and Governance > 07.01 - Logging and Monitoring > 07.01.05 - Ensure that SKU Basic/Consumption is not used on artifacts that need to be monitored (Particularly for Production Workloads)
Azure > CIS v4.0 > 07 - Management and Governance > 07.02 - Ensure that Resource Locks are set for Mission-Critical Azure Resources
Azure > CIS v4.0 > 08 - Networking > 08.05 - Ensure that Network Security Group Flow Log retention period is 'greater than 90 days'
Azure > CIS v4.0 > 08 - Networking > 08.06 - Ensure that Network Watcher is 'Enabled' for Azure Regions that are in use

Policy Specification

Schema Type	`string`
Default	`Per Azure > CIS v4.0`
Valid Values [YAML]	`Per Azure > CIS v4.0` `Skip` `Check: All CIS Benchmarks except attestations` `Check: All CIS Benchmarks`
Examples [YAML]	`Skip`

In Your Workspace

Policy Settings by Type report

Developers

Category URI

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

Policy Type URI

tmod:@turbot/azure-cisv4-0#/policy/types/s07

GraphQL

query policyType(id: "tmod:@turbot/azure-cisv4-0#/policy/types/s07") { … }

query policySettings(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/azure-cisv4-0#/policy/types/s07'") { … }

query policyValues(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/azure-cisv4-0#/policy/types/s07'") { … }

CLI

Get Policy Type

turbot graphql policy-type --id "tmod:@turbot/azure-cisv4-0#/policy/types/s07"

Get Policy Settings

turbot graphql policy-settings --filter "policyTypeId:tmod:@turbot/azure-cisv4-0#/policy/types/s07"