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Set Microsoft Defender for Storage To 'On' (Manual)

Profile Applicability

• Level 2

Description

Turning on Microsoft Defender for Storage enables threat detection for Storage, providing threat intelligence, anomaly detection, and behavior analytics in the Microsoft Defender for Cloud.

Rationale

Enabling Microsoft Defender for Storage allows for greater defense-in-depth, with threat detection provided by the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC).

Impact

Turning on Microsoft Defender for Storage incurs an additional cost per resource.

Audit

From Azure Portal

  1. Go to Microsoft Defender for Cloud
  2. Select Environment Settings blade
  3. Click on the subscription name
  4. Select the Defender plans blade
  5. Review the chosen pricing tier. For the Storage resource type Plan should be set to On.

From Azure CLI

Ensure the output of the below command is Standard

az security pricing show -n StorageAccounts

From Azure Powershell

Get-AzSecurityPricing -Name 'StorageAccounts' | Select-Object Name,PricingTier

Ensure output for Name PricingTier is StorageAccounts Standard

Remediation

From Azure Portal

  1. Go to Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
  2. Select Environment Settings blade.
  3. Click the subscription name.
  4. Select the Defender plans blade.
  5. Set Status to On for Storage.
  6. Select Save.

From Azure CLI

Ensure the output of the below command is Standard:

az security pricing create -n StorageAccounts --tier 'standard'

From Azure Powershell

Set-AzSecurityPricing -Name 'StorageAccounts' -PricingTier 'Standard'

References

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/security-center/security-center-detection-capabilities
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/securitycenter/pricings/list
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/securitycenter/pricings/update
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/az.security/get-azsecuritypricing
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security/benchmark/azure/security-controls-v3-logging-threat-detection#lt-1-enable-threat-detection-capabilities