Pipeline: 7.1 Ensure that RDP access from the Internet is evaluated and restricted

Description

Network security groups should be periodically evaluated for port misconfigurations. Where certain ports and protocols may be exposed to the Internet, they should be evaluated for necessity and restricted wherever they are not explicitly required.

The potential security problem with using RDP over the Internet is that attackers can use various brute force techniques to gain access to Azure Virtual Machines. Once the attackers gain access, they can use a virtual machine as a launch point for compromising other machines on an Azure Virtual Network or even attack networked devices outside of Azure.

Remediation

Where RDP is not explicitly required and narrowly configured for resources attached to the Network Security Group, Internet-level access to your Azure resources should be restricted or eliminated.

For internal access to relevant resources, configure an encrypted network tunnel such as:

Default Value

By default, RDP access from internet is not enabled.

Run the pipeline

To run this pipeline from your terminal:

flowpipe pipeline run azure_cis.pipeline.cis_v300_7_1

Use this pipeline

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

step "pipeline" "step_name" {
  pipeline = azure_cis.pipeline.cis_v300_7_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`

Outputs

This pipeline has no outputs.