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turbot/azure_cis

Pipeline: 3.1.7.4 Ensure That Microsoft Defender for SQL Servers on Machines Is Set To 'On'

Description

Turning on Microsoft Defender for SQL servers on machines enables threat detection for SQL servers on machines, providing threat intelligence, anomaly detection, and behavior analytics in Microsoft Defender for Cloud.

Enabling Microsoft Defender for SQL servers on machines allows for greater defense-in-depth, functionality for discovering and classifying sensitive data, surfacing and mitigating potential database vulnerabilities, and detecting anomalous activities that could indicate a threat to your database.

Remediation

From Azure Portal

  1. Go to Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
  2. Under Management, select Environment Settings.
  3. Click on the subscription name.
  4. Select the Defender plans blade.
  5. Click Select types > in the row for Databases.
  6. Set the toggle switch next to SQL servers on machines to On.
  7. Select Continue.
  8. Select Save.

From Azure CLI

Run the following command:

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

From Powershell

Run the following command:

Set-AzSecurityPricing -Name 'SqlServerVirtualMachines' -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_4

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_4
}

Params

NameTypeRequiredDescriptionDefault
database
connection.steampipe
YesDatabase connection string.connection.steampipe.default
notifier
notifier
YesThe name of the notifier to use for sending notification messages.notifier.default
notification_level
string
YesThe verbosity level of notification messages to send. Valid options are 'verbose', 'info', 'error'.info
approvers
list(notifier)
YesList of notifiers to be used for obtaining action/approval decisions.notifier.default

Outputs

This pipeline has no outputs.

Tags

folder = CIS v3.0.0/3 Security/3.1 Microsoft Defender for Cloud/3.1.7 Defender Plan: Databases