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zt_data_021 — Azure Data Factory is internet-accessible for integration runtime control plane

Summary

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

Description

Data Factory orchestrates data movement across storage accounts, databases, and external sources. An ADF with publicNetworkAccess=Enabled exposes the integration-runtime control plane to the public internet — attackers who authenticate (e.g. via leaked SAS or compromised identity) can trigger pipelines that read from and write to every linked data source. Disable public access and use a Self-Hosted IR inside the VNet.

Mapping

Framework Control / Reference
NIST 800-53 AC-4, SC-7
NIST 800-207 Tenet 5 - All resource authentication and authorization are dynamic and strictly enforced before access is allowed
CIS Azure
MITRE ATT&CK Technique T1190
MITRE ATT&CK Tactic Initial Access
Zero-Trust Tenet Tenet 5
Framework tags nist-800-207, argus-zt

Source

Rule defined at policies/azure/zt/data/zt_data_021.rego.

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