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zt_net_006 — Virtual Machine has a direct public IP

Summary

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

Description

VMs with direct public IPs bypass central ingress controls and dramatically increase attack surface; traffic should instead traverse Azure Firewall, App Gateway, or Load Balancer with WAF.

Mapping

Framework Control / Reference
NIST 800-53 SC-7
NIST 800-207 Tenet 5 - Integrity monitored
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/network/zt_net_006.rego.

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