Policy: Azure > CIS v5.0 > 7 - Networking Services > 7.15 - Ensure bot protection is enabled in Azure Web Application Firewall policy on Azure Application Gateway

Configures auditing against a CIS Benchmark item.

Level: 1

Ensure that Web Application Firewall (WAF) bot protection is enabled on WAF policies.

WAF bot protection uses Microsoft's Threat Intelligence feed to identify and block known bad bots while allowing legitimate bots. This helps protect against automated attacks, web scraping, and credential stuffing attacks.

Targets

This policy targets the following resource types:

Azure > Network > Web Application Firewall Policy

Primary Policy

This policy is used with the following primary policy:

Azure > CIS v5.0 > 7 - Networking Services

Controls

Setting this policy configures this control:

Azure > CIS v5.0 > 7 - Networking Services > 7.15 - Ensure bot protection is enabled in Azure Web Application Firewall policy on Azure Application Gateway

Policy Specification

Schema Type	`string`
Default	`Per Azure > CIS v5.0 > 07 - Networking Services`
Valid Values [YAML]	`Per Azure > CIS v5.0 > 07 - Networking Services` `Skip` `Check: Benchmark`

In Your Workspace

Policy Settings by Type report

Developers

Category URI

tmod:@turbot/cis#/control/categories/v071209

Policy Type URI

tmod:@turbot/azure-cisv5-0#/policy/types/r0715

GraphQL

query policyType(id: "tmod:@turbot/azure-cisv5-0#/policy/types/r0715") { … }

query policySettings(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/azure-cisv5-0#/policy/types/r0715'") { … }

query policyValues(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/azure-cisv5-0#/policy/types/r0715'") { … }

CLI

Get Policy Type

turbot graphql policy-type --id "tmod:@turbot/azure-cisv5-0#/policy/types/r0715"

Get Policy Settings

turbot graphql policy-settings --filter "policyTypeId:tmod:@turbot/azure-cisv5-0#/policy/types/r0715"