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Set Microsoft Defender for Key Vault To 'On' (Manual)

Profile Applicability

• Level 2

Description

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

Rationale

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

Impact

Turning on Microsoft Defender for Key Vault 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 Key Vault 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 'KeyVaults' --query 'PricingTier'

From Azure Powershell

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

Ensure output for PricingTier is 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. Select On under Status for Key Vault.
  6. Select Save.

From Azure CLI

Enable Standard pricing tier for Key Vault:

az security pricing create -n 'KeyVaults' --tier 'Standard'

From Azure PowerShell

Enable Standard pricing tier for Key Vault:

Set-AzSecurityPricing -Name 'KeyVaults' -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