Pipeline: 3.1.4.1 Ensure That Microsoft Defender for Containers Is Set To 'On'

Description

Turning on Microsoft Defender for Containers enables threat detection for Container Registries including Kubernetes, providing threat intelligence, anomaly detection, and behavior analytics in the Microsoft Defender for Cloud. The following services will be enabled for container instances:

Defender agent in Azure
Azure Policy for Kubernetes
Agentless discovery for Kubernetes
Agentless container vulnerability assessment

Enabling Microsoft Defender for Container Registries 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.
Select Defender plans.
Set Status to On for Containers.
Click Save.

From Azure CLI

(Note: 'ContainerRegistry' has been deprecated and is replaced by 'Containers')

Use the below command to enable Standard pricing tier for Containers.

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

From Powershell

(Note: 'ContainerRegistry' has been deprecated and is replaced by 'Containers')

Use the below command to enable Standard pricing tier for Containers.

Set-AzSecurityPricing -Name 'Containers' -PricingTier 'Standard'

Default Value

By default, Microsoft Defender for Containers is off.

Run the pipeline

To run this pipeline from your terminal:

flowpipe pipeline run azure_cis.pipeline.cis_v300_3_1_4_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_4_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.