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# Azure Microsoft Defender for Cloud is set to Off for Azure SQL Databases misconfiguration detected i

## Rule Details

|                        |                                         |
| ---------------------- | --------------------------------------- |
| Cortex AppSec Rule ID  | APPSEC\_AZURE\_69                       |
| Category - Subcategory | Monitoring - Alerting And Notifications |
| Provider               | AZURE                                   |
| Severity               | LOW                                     |
| Framework              | Terraform, Terraform Plan               |
| Mapped CSPM/KSPM Rule  | 49145cce-b067-4fd5-bf7c-cce4035439d0    |

## 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 SQL servers on machines extends the protections for your Azure-native SQL Servers to fully support hybrid environments and protect SQL servers (all supported version) hosted in Azure

## How to Fix

*Resource:* azurerm\_security\_center\_subscription\_pricing

* *Arguments:* resource\_type - (Required) The resource type this setting affects.

## Ensure that `SqlServers` and `SqlServerVirtualMachines` are 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" }


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