CHAIN-190 — Critical resources without resource locks

Summary

Severity: High · Likelihood: Medium · Logic: ALL

Why this chain matters

Production storage accounts, key vaults, and databases have no delete locks. A compromised Contributor or an accidental 'rm -rf' via Terraform can destroy them in seconds — with no two-step confirmation.

Component rules

This chain fires when its trigger conditions are met by the following rules. Click any rule to see its detection logic and compliance mappings.

Rule ID	Role
zt_vis_007	Trigger
zt_id_003	Trigger

Attack walkthrough

Step 1 — Terraform destroy or Portal delete on unlocked resource.

Actor: Attacker / accident
MITRE ATT&CK: T1485
Enabled by: zt_vis_007

Attacker gain: Unrecoverable deletion.

Step 2 — Extended outage; potential data loss depending on backup state.

Actor: Organisation
MITRE ATT&CK: T1485
Enabled by: zt_id_003

Attacker gain: Operational damage.

Blast radius

Initial access	Contributor or automation bug.
Max privilege	Destructive resource deletion.
Data at risk	Any resource without a lock
Services at risk	Every unlocked critical resource

How the logic works

The chain fires only when every rule above has at least one finding in the current scan. Missing any one rule breaks the chain — so remediating any single step disrupts the attack path.