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cis_5_1 — Ensure a diagnostic setting exists at subscription scope

Summary

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

Description

A subscription-scoped diagnostic setting captures the Azure Activity Log for audit and detection. Without it you lose authoritative control plane telemetry.

Mapping

Framework Control / Reference
NIST 800-53 AU-2
NIST 800-207 Tenet 7 - Collect posture information
CIS Azure 5.1
MITRE ATT&CK Technique T1562.008
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/logging/cis_5_1.rego.

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