Pipeline: 3.1.16 [LEGACY] Ensure That Microsoft Defender for DNS Is Set To 'On'

Description

[NOTE: As of August 1, 2023 customers with an existing subscription to Defender for DNS can continue to use the service, but new subscribers will receive alerts about suspicious DNS activity as part of Defender for Servers P2.]

Microsoft Defender for DNS scans all network traffic exiting from within a subscription.

DNS lookups within a subscription are scanned and compared to a dynamic list of websites that might be potential security threats. These threats could be a result of a security breach within your services, thus scanning for them could prevent a potential security threat from being introduced.

Remediation

From Azure Portal

Go to Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
Under Management, select Environment Settings.
Click on the subscription name.
Select the Defender plans blade.
Select On under Status for DNS.
Select Save.

From Azure CLI

Enable Standard pricing tier for DNS:

az security pricing create -n 'DNS' --tier 'Standard'

From Powershell

Enable Standard pricing tier for DNS:

Set-AzSecurityPricing -Name 'DNS' -PricingTier 'Standard'

Default Value

By default, Microsoft Defender for DNS is not enabled.

Run the pipeline

To run this pipeline from your terminal:

flowpipe pipeline run azure_cis.pipeline.cis_v300_3_1_16

Use this pipeline

To call this pipeline from your pipeline, use a step:

step "pipeline" "step_name" {
  pipeline = azure_cis.pipeline.cis_v300_3_1_16  
}

Params

Name	Type	Required	Description	Default
database	connection.steampipe	Yes	Database connection string.	`connection.steampipe.default`
notifier	notifier	Yes	The name of the notifier to use for sending notification messages.	`notifier.default`
notification_level	string	Yes	The verbosity level of notification messages to send. Valid options are 'verbose', 'info', 'error'.	`info`
approvers	list(notifier)	Yes	List of notifiers to be used for obtaining action/approval decisions.	`notifier.default`

Outputs

This pipeline has no outputs.