Azure Microsoft Defender for Cloud is set to Off for Servers misconfiguration detected in code

Rule Details

Cortex AppSec Rule ID	APPSEC_AZURE_55
Category - Subcategory	Monitoring - Alerting And Notifications
Provider	AZURE
Severity	LOW
Framework	Terraform, Terraform Plan
Mapped CSPM/KSPM Rule	3b5a4a78-f4d4-442d-b688-0c299a6305b1

Impact

Azure Defender is a cloud workload protection service that utilizes and agent-based deployment to analyze signals from Azure network fabric and the service control plane, to detect threats across all Azure resources. It can also analyze non-Azure resources, utilizing Azure Arc, including those on-premises and in both AWS and GCP (once they've been onboarded). Azure Defender for servers adds threat detection and advanced defenses for Windows and Linux machines.

How to Fix

Resource: azurerm_security_center_subscription_pricing

• Arguments: resource_type - (Required) The resource type this setting affects.

Ensure that SqlServers is declared to pass this check. [source,go]

resource "azurerm_security_center_subscription_pricing" "example" { tier = "Standard" resource_type = "AppServices,ContainerRegistry,KeyVaults,KubernetesService,SqlServers,SqlServerVirtualMachines,StorageAccounts,VirtualMachines,ARM,DNS" }