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Ensure That Microsoft Defender for Key Vault Is Set To 'On'
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| name | cis-azure-foundations-8.1.8.1 |
| description | Ensure That Microsoft Defender for Key Vault Is Set To 'On' |
| category | cis-azure-foundations |
| version | 5.0.0 |
| author | cyberstrike-official |
| tags | ["cis","azure","security","defender","key-vault"] |
| cis_id | 8.1.8.1 |
| cis_benchmark | CIS Microsoft Azure Foundations Benchmark v5.0.0 |
| tech_stack | ["azure"] |
| cwe_ids | [] |
| chains_with | [] |
| prerequisites | [] |
| severity_boost | {} |
Enable Microsoft Defender for Key Vault to provide an additional layer of protection and security intelligence for detecting unusual and potentially harmful attempts to access or exploit Key Vault accounts.
Microsoft Defender for Key Vault detects anomalous and potentially harmful access attempts or exploitation of Azure Key Vault. It uses advanced threat detection capabilities and Microsoft Threat Intelligence data to surface contextual security alerts, enabling organizations to identify and respond to threats targeting their secrets, keys, and certificates stored in Key Vault.
Enabling Microsoft Defender for Key Vault incurs additional costs based on the pricing tier. Organizations should evaluate the number of Key Vault transactions in their environment to estimate costs before enabling the service.
From Azure Portal:
Microsoft Defender for Cloud.Management, click Environment settings.Defender plans blade.Key Vault in the list and ensure the Status is set to On.From Azure CLI:
az security pricing show -n KeyVaults --query pricingTier
Ensure "Standard" is returned.
From PowerShell:
Get-AzSecurityPricing -Name KeyVaults | Select-Object PricingTier
Ensure Standard is returned.
The pricing tier for KeyVaults should be Standard.
From Azure Portal:
Microsoft Defender for Cloud.Management, click Environment settings.Defender plans blade.Key Vault, set the Status toggle to On.Save.From Azure CLI:
az security pricing create -n KeyVaults --tier Standard
From PowerShell:
Set-AzSecurityPricing -Name KeyVaults -PricingTier Standard
Microsoft Defender for Key Vault is disabled (Free tier) by default.