Pipeline: 3.1.7.2 Ensure That Microsoft Defender for Open-Source Relational Databases Is Set To 'On'

Description

Turning on Microsoft Defender for Open-source relational databases enables threat detection for Open-source relational databases, providing threat intelligence, anomaly detection, and behavior analytics in the Microsoft Defender for Cloud.

Enabling Microsoft Defender for Open-source relational databases 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 the Defender plans blade.
Click Select types > in the row for Databases.
Set the toggle switch next to Open-source relational databases to On.
Select Continue.
Select Save.

From Azure CLI

Run the following command:

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

From Powershell

Use the below command to enable Standard pricing tier for Open-source relational databases

set-azsecuritypricing -name "OpenSourceRelationalDatabases" -pricingtier "Standard"

Default Value

By default, Microsoft Defender plan is off.

Run the pipeline

To run this pipeline from your terminal:

flowpipe pipeline run azure_cis.pipeline.cis_v300_3_1_7_2

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_7_2  
}

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

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