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zt_wl_020 — Virtual Machine disk encryption not enabled

Summary

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

Description

Virtual Machines without OS disk encryption leave data at rest unprotected. An attacker who gains access to the underlying storage or snapshots can read sensitive data directly from the disk without needing OS-level credentials.

Mapping

Framework Control / Reference
NIST 800-53 SC-28(1)
NIST 800-207 Tenet 1 - All data sources and computing services are considered resources
CIS Azure
MITRE ATT&CK Technique T1005
MITRE ATT&CK Tactic Collection
Zero-Trust Tenet Tenet 1
Framework tags nist-800-207, argus-zt

Source

Rule defined at policies/azure/zt/workload/zt_wl_020.rego.

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