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cis_2_1 — Ensure Microsoft Defender for Servers is set to Standard

Summary

Severity: High · Pillar: Visibility · Chain role: ENABLER

Description

Defender for Servers provides threat detection, vulnerability assessment, and JIT VM access. Without it VMs lack runtime protection.

Mapping

Framework Control / Reference
NIST 800-53 SI-4
NIST 800-207 Tenet 7 - Collect posture information
CIS Azure 2.1
MITRE ATT&CK Technique T1078
MITRE ATT&CK Tactic Defense Evasion
Zero-Trust Tenet Tenet 7
Framework tags nist-800-207, cis-azure-2.0, nist-800-53

Source

Rule defined at policies/azure/cis/defender/cis_2_1.rego.

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