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zt_net_021 — VPN Gateway uses a deprecated Basic SKU

Summary

Severity: Medium · Pillar: Network · Chain role: AMPLIFIER

Description

VPN Gateway Basic SKU is end-of-life for commercial use as of Q3 2025. Basic gateways lack BGP support, active-active failover, and the modern IKEv2 cipher suite. Workloads still on Basic should migrate to VpnGw1/2/3 (or ErGw1AZ for ExpressRoute). Basic will stop receiving security patches.

Mapping

Framework Control / Reference
NIST 800-53 SC-8
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 T1557
MITRE ATT&CK Tactic Credential Access
Zero-Trust Tenet Tenet 5
Framework tags nist-800-207, argus-zt

Source

Rule defined at policies/azure/zt/network/zt_net_021.rego.

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