Pipeline: 3.1.3.1 Ensure That Microsoft Defender for Servers Is Set to 'On'

Description

Turning on Microsoft Defender for Servers enables threat detection for Servers, providing threat intelligence, anomaly detection, and behavior analytics in the Microsoft Defender for Cloud.

Enabling Microsoft Defender for Servers allows for greater defense-in-depth, with threat detection provided by the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC).

Remediation

From Azure Portal

Go to Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
Under Management, select Environment Settings.
Click on the subscription name.
Click Defender plans in the left pane.
Under Cloud Workload Protection (CWP), locate Server in the Plan column, set Status to On.
Select Save.

From Azure CLI

Run the following command:

az security pricing create -n VirtualMachines --tier 'standard'

From Powershell

Run the following command:

Set-AzSecurityPricing -Name 'VirtualMachines' -PricingTier 'Standard'

Default Value

By default, Microsoft Defender for Servers plan is off.

Run the pipeline

To run this pipeline from your terminal:

flowpipe pipeline run azure_cis.pipeline.cis_v300_3_1_3_1

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_3_1  
}

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.