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Enforce Encryption at Rest Is Enabled for Azure Compute Disks

Enforcing encryption at rest for Azure Compute Disks via Disk Encryption Sets is crucial to protect sensitive data stored on virtual machines from unauthorized access and potential breaches. This security measure ensures that data remains confidential and secure, even if the physical storage media is compromised, by using strong encryption algorithms to render the data unreadable without the appropriate decryption keys.

This policy pack can help you configure the following settings for Compute disks:

  • Set Disk Encryption Set to be used to encrypt disks
  • Enable Encryption at Rest

Documentation

Getting Started

Requirements

Credentials

To create a policy pack through Terraform:

  • Ensure you have Turbot/Admin permissions (or higher) in Guardrails
  • Create access keys in Guardrails

And then set your credentials:

export TURBOT_WORKSPACE=myworkspace.acme.com
export TURBOT_ACCESS_KEY=acce6ac5-access-key-here
export TURBOT_SECRET_KEY=a8af61ec-secret-key-here

Please see Turbot Guardrails Provider authentication for additional authentication methods.

Usage

Install Policy Pack

Note

By default, installed policy packs are not attached to any resources.

Policy packs must be attached to resources in order for their policy settings to take effect.

Clone:

git clone https://github.com/turbot/guardrails-samples.git
cd guardrails-samples/policy_packs/azure/compute/enforce_encryption_at_rest_is_enabled_for_disks

Run the Terraform to create the policy pack in your workspace:

terraform init
terraform plan

Then apply the changes:

terraform apply

Apply Policy Pack

Log into your Guardrails workspace and attach the policy pack to a resource.

If this policy pack is attached to a Guardrails folder, its policies will be applied to all accounts and resources in that folder. The policy pack can also be attached to multiple resources.

For more information, please see Policy Packs.

Enable Enforcement

Tip

You can also update the policy settings in this policy pack directly in the Guardrails console.

Please note your Terraform state file will then become out of sync and the policy settings should then only be managed in the console.

By default, the policies are set to Check in the pack's policy settings. To enable automated enforcements, you can switch these policies settings by adding a comment to the Check setting and removing the comment from one of the listed enforcement options:

resource "turbot_policy_setting" "azure_compute_disk_encryption_at_rest" {
  resource = turbot_policy_pack.main.id
  type     = "tmod:@turbot/azure-compute#/policy/types/diskEncryptionAtRest"
  # value    = "Check: Encryption at Rest > Disk Encryption Set"
  value    = "Enforce: Encryption at Rest > Disk Encryption Set"
}

Then re-apply the changes:

terraform plan
terraform apply