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zt_bak_002 — Recovery Services Vault has soft delete disabled

Summary

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

Description

Without soft delete, a Backup operator (or attacker who compromised one) can permanently delete recovery points in a single API call. Soft delete gives 14 days to recover from accidental or malicious deletion. It is free, has no performance cost, and the default should never be disabled except for development vaults.

Mapping

Framework Control / Reference
NIST 800-53 CP-9
NIST 800-207 Tenet 4 - Access to individual enterprise resources is granted on a per-session basis
CIS Azure
MITRE ATT&CK Technique T1490
MITRE ATT&CK Tactic Impact
Zero-Trust Tenet Tenet 4
Framework tags nist-800-207, argus-zt

Source

Rule defined at policies/azure/zt/backup/zt_bak_002.rego.

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