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cis_2_1_22 — Defender for Containers not enabled

Summary

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

Description

Defender for Containers provides runtime threat detection, vulnerability assessment, and admission control for AKS clusters and container registries. Without it, container workloads lack runtime protection.

Mapping

Framework Control / Reference
NIST 800-53 SC-7
NIST 800-207
CIS Azure 2.1.22
MITRE ATT&CK Technique T1610
MITRE ATT&CK Tactic Execution
Zero-Trust Tenet
Framework tags cis-azure-2.0, nist-800-53

Source

Rule defined at policies/azure/cis/defender/cis_2_1_22.rego.

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