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cis_8_1 — Ensure Key Vault has soft delete and purge protection enabled

Summary

Severity: Critical · Pillar: Data · Chain role: ANCHOR

Description

Without soft delete or purge protection, an attacker with Contributor access to a Key Vault can irrecoverably destroy keys and secrets, breaking every service that depends on them.

Mapping

Framework Control / Reference
NIST 800-53 CP-9
NIST 800-207 Tenet 3 - Per-session authenticated access
CIS Azure 8.1
MITRE ATT&CK Technique T1485
MITRE ATT&CK Tactic Impact
Zero-Trust Tenet Tenet 3
Framework tags nist-800-207, cis-azure-2.0, nist-800-53

Source

Rule defined at policies/azure/cis/keyvault/cis_8_1.rego.

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