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{
"items": [
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Identity",
"text": "Implement for emergency access or break-glass accounts to prevent tenant-wide account lockout",
"guid": "984a859c-773e-47d2-9162-3a765a917e1f",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/roles/security-emergency-access"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Identity",
"text": "Enforce a RBAC model for management groups, subscriptions, resource groups and resources",
"guid": "348ef254-c27d-442e-abba-c7571559ab91",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/role-based-access-control/overview"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Identity",
"text": "Enforce Azure AD conditional-access policies for any user with rights to Azure environments",
"guid": "53e8908a-e28c-484c-93b6-b7808b9fe5c4",
"severity": "Low",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/conditional-access/overview"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Identity",
"text": "Enforce multi-factor authentication for any user with rights to the Azure environments",
"guid": "1049d403-a923-4c34-94d0-0018ac6a9e01",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/authentication/concept-mfa-howitworks"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Identity",
"text": "Enforce centralized and delegated responsibilities to manage resources deployed inside the landing zone based on role and security requirements",
"guid": "e6a83de5-de32-4c19-a248-1607d5d1e4e6",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/role-based-access-control/overview"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Identity",
"text": "Enforce Azure AD Privileged Identity Management (PIM) to establish zero standing access and least privilege",
"guid": "14658d35-58fd-4772-99b8-21112df27ee4",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/privileged-identity-management/pim-configure"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Identity",
"text": "Only use the authentication type Work or school account for all account types. Avoid using the Microsoft account",
"guid": "12e7f983-f630-4472-8dd6-9c5b5c2622f5",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory-b2c/user-overview"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Identity",
"text": "Only use groups to assign permissions. Add on-premises groups to the Azure-AD-only group if a group management system is already in place.",
"guid": "4b69bad3-3aad-45e8-a68e-1d76667313b4",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/fundamentals/active-directory-groups-create-azure-portal"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Identity",
"text": "If the following roles roles are considered, use Azure custom roles: Azure platform owner, network management, security operations, subscription owner, application owner",
"guid": "f5664b5e-984a-4859-a773-e7d261623a76",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/role-based-access-control/custom-roles"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Identity",
"text": "If any data sovereignty requirements exist, custom user policies can be deployed to enforce them",
"guid": "5a917e1f-348e-4f25-9c27-d42e8bbac757",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://azure.microsoft.com/resources/achieving-compliant-data-residency-and-security-with-azure/"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Identity",
"text": "If Azure DS in use, deploy ADS within the primary region because this service can only be projected into one subscription",
"guid": "1559ab91-53e8-4908-ae28-c84c33b6b780",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory-domain-services/overview"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Identity",
"text": "If Azure DS in use, evaluate the compatibility of all workloads",
"guid": "8b9fe5c4-1049-4d40-9a92-3c3474d00018",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory-domain-services/overview"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Identity",
"text": "If AD on Windows server in use, can all required resources access correct domain controller?",
"guid": "ac6a9e01-e6a8-43de-9de3-2c1992481607",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/architecture/reference-architectures/identity/adds-extend-domain"
},
{
"category": "Identity",
"subcategory": "Identity",
"text": "Has Azure AD Application Proxy been considered for remote access to on-premises applications? ",
"guid": "d5d1e4e6-1465-48d3-958f-d77249b82111",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/app-proxy/application-proxy"
},
{
"category": "Subscriptions",
"subcategory": "Subscriptions",
"text": "Enforce reasonably flat management group hierarchy with no more than three to four levels, ideally",
"guid": "2df27ee4-12e7-4f98-9f63-04722dd69c5b",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/governance/management-groups/overview"
},
{
"category": "Subscriptions",
"subcategory": "Subscriptions",
"text": "Enforce or appended resource tags through Azure Policy",
"guid": "5c2622f5-4b69-4bad-93aa-d5e8c68e1d76",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/decision-guides/resource-tagging/?toc=/azure/azure-resource-manager/management/toc.json"
},
{
"category": "Subscriptions",
"subcategory": "Subscriptions",
"text": "Enfore a sandbox management group to allow users to immediately experiment with Azure",
"guid": "667313b4-f566-44b5-b984-a859c773e7d2",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/governance/management-groups/overview"
},
{
"category": "Subscriptions",
"subcategory": "Subscriptions",
"text": "Enforce a platform management group under the root management group to support common platform policy and Azure role assignment",
"guid": "61623a76-5a91-47e1-b348-ef254c27d42e",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/governance/management-groups/overview"
},
{
"category": "Subscriptions",
"subcategory": "Subscriptions",
"text": "Enforce a dedicated connectivity subscription in the Platform management group to host an Azure Virtual WAN hub, private Domain Name System (DNS), ExpressRoute circuit, and other networking resources.",
"guid": "8bbac757-1559-4ab9-853e-8908ae28c84c",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/governance/management-groups/overview"
},
{
"category": "Subscriptions",
"subcategory": "Subscriptions",
"text": "Enforce no subscriptions are placed under the root management group",
"guid": "33b6b780-8b9f-4e5c-9104-9d403a923c34",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/governance/management-groups/overview"
},
{
"category": "Subscriptions",
"subcategory": "Subscriptions",
"text": "Enforce that only privileged users can operate management groups in the tenant by enabling Azure RBAC authorization in the management group hierarchy settings",
"guid": "74d00018-ac6a-49e0-8e6a-83de5de32c19",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/governance/management-groups/overview"
},
{
"category": "Subscriptions",
"subcategory": "Subscriptions",
"text": "Enforce management groups under the root-level management group to represent the types of workloads, based on their security, compliance, connectivity, and feature needs.",
"guid": "92481607-d5d1-4e4e-9146-58d3558fd772",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/governance/management-groups/overview"
},
{
"category": "Subscriptions",
"subcategory": "Subscriptions",
"text": "Enforce a process to make resource owners aware of their roles and responsibilities, access review, budget review, policy compliance and remediate when necessary.",
"guid": "49b82111-2df2-47ee-912e-7f983f630472",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/governance/management-groups/overview"
},
{
"category": "Subscriptions",
"subcategory": "Subscriptions",
"text": "Enforce that all subscription owners and IT core team are aware of subscription support limitations",
"guid": "2dd69c5b-5c26-422f-94b6-9bad33aad5e8",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-resource-manager/management/azure-subscription-service-limits"
},
{
"category": "Subscriptions",
"subcategory": "Subscriptions",
"text": "Enforce the use of reserved instances to prioritize reserved capacity in required regions. Then the workload will have the required capacity even when there's a high demand for that resource in a specific region.",
"guid": "c68e1d76-6673-413b-9f56-64b5e984a859",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cost-management-billing/reservations/save-compute-costs-reservations"
},
{
"category": "Subscriptions",
"subcategory": "Subscriptions",
"text": "Enforce a dashboard, workbook or manual process to monitor used capacity levels",
"guid": "c773e7d2-6162-43a7-95a9-17e1f348ef25",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/architecture/framework/scalability/design-capacity"
},
{
"category": "Subscriptions",
"subcategory": "Subscriptions",
"text": "Ensure required services and features are available within the chosen deployment regions",
"guid": "4c27d42e-8bba-4c75-9155-9ab9153e8908",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://azure.microsoft.com/global-infrastructure/services/"
},
{
"category": "Subscriptions",
"subcategory": "Subscriptions",
"text": "Enforce a process for cost management",
"guid": "ae28c84c-33b6-4b78-88b9-fe5c41049d40",
"severity": "High",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cost-management-billing/cost-management-billing-overview"
},
{
"category": "Subscriptions",
"subcategory": "Subscriptions",
"text": "If AD on Windows Server, establish a dedicated identity subscription in the Platform management group to host Windows Server Active Directory domain controllers",
"guid": "3a923c34-74d0-4001-aac6-a9e01e6a83de",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/governance/management-groups/overview"
},
{
"category": "Subscriptions",
"subcategory": "Subscriptions",
"text": "Ensure tags are used for billing and cost management",
"guid": "5de32c19-9248-4160-9d5d-1e4e614658d3",
"severity": "Medium",
"training": "https://docs.microsoft.com/learn/paths/implement-resource-mgmt-security/",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/decision-guides/resource-tagging/?toc=/azure/azure-resource-manager/management/toc.json"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "IP plan",
"text": "Ensure no overlapping IP address spaces across Azure regions and on-premises locations",
"guid": "558fd772-49b8-4211-82df-27ee412e7f98",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/ready/azure-best-practices/plan-for-ip-addressing"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "IP plan",
"text": "Ensure to use IP addresses from the address allocation for private internets (RFC 1918).",
"guid": "3f630472-2dd6-49c5-a5c2-622f54b69bad",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/ready/azure-best-practices/plan-for-ip-addressing"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "IP plan",
"text": "Ensure that IP address space isn't wasted, don't create unnecessarily large virtual networks (for example /16) ",
"guid": "33aad5e8-c68e-41d7-9667-313b4f5664b5",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/ready/azure-best-practices/plan-for-ip-addressing"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "IP plan",
"text": "Ensure no public IP address are used inside of VNET",
"guid": "e984a859-c773-4e7d-8616-23a765a917e1",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/ready/azure-best-practices/plan-for-ip-addressing"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "IP plan",
"text": "Avoid using overlapping IP address ranges for production and DR sites.",
"guid": "f348ef25-4c27-4d42-b8bb-ac7571559ab9",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-network/virtual-networks-name-resolution-for-vms-and-role-instances"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "IP plan",
"text": "For environments where name resolution in Azure is all that's required, use Azure Private DNS for resolution. Create a delegated zone for name resolution (such as?azure.contoso.com).",
"guid": "153e8908-ae28-4c84-a33b-6b7808b9fe5c",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-network/virtual-networks-name-resolution-for-vms-and-role-instances"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "IP plan",
"text": "For environments where name resolution across Azure and on-premises is required, use existing DNS infrastructure (for example, Active Directory integrated DNS) deployed onto at least two virtual machines (VMs). Configure DNS settings in virtual networks to use those DNS servers.",
"guid": "41049d40-3a92-43c3-974d-00018ac6a9e0",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-network/virtual-networks-name-resolution-for-vms-and-role-instances"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "IP plan",
"text": "Special workloads that require and deploy their own DNS (such as Red Hat OpenShift) should use their preferred DNS solution.",
"guid": "1e6a83de-5de3-42c1-a924-81607d5d1e4e",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-network/virtual-networks-name-resolution-for-vms-and-role-instances"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "IP plan",
"text": "Enable auto-registration for Azure DNS to automatically manage the lifecycle of the DNS records for the virtual machines deployed within a virtual network.",
"guid": "614658d3-558f-4d77-849b-821112df27ee",
"severity": "Medium"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Virtual WAN",
"text": "Ensure, for new large or global network deployments in Azure where you need global transit connectivity across Azure regions and on-premises locations, use virtual WAN",
"guid": "412e7f98-3f63-4047-82dd-69c5b5c2622f",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-wan/virtual-wan-about"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Virtual WAN",
"text": "Use a Virtual WAN hub per Azure region to connect multiple landing zones together across Azure regions via a common global Azure Virtual WAN.",
"guid": "54b69bad-33aa-4d5e-ac68-e1d76667313b",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-wan/virtual-wan-about"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Virtual WAN",
"text": "Use Virtual Hub Routing features to further segment traffic between VNets and branches.",
"guid": "4f5664b5-e984-4a85-ac77-3e7d261623a7",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-wan/virtual-wan-about"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Virtual WAN",
"text": "Connect Virtual WAN hubs to on-premises datacenters by using ExpressRoute",
"guid": "65a917e1-f348-4ef2-94c2-7d42e8bbac75",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-wan/virtual-wan-about"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Virtual WAN",
"text": "Connect branches and remote locations to the nearest Virtual WAN hub via Site-to-Site VPN, or enable branch connectivity to Virtual WAN via an SD-WAN partner solution.",
"guid": "71559ab9-153e-4890-aae2-8c84c33b6b78",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-wan/virtual-wan-about"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Virtual WAN",
"text": "Connect users to the Virtual WAN hub via a Point-to-Site VPN.",
"guid": "08b9fe5c-4104-49d4-83a9-23c3474d0001",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-wan/virtual-wan-about"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Virtual WAN",
"text": "Follow the principle ",
"guid": "8ac6a9e0-1e6a-483d-b5de-32c199248160",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-wan/virtual-wan-about"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Virtual WAN",
"text": "For outbound Internet traffic protection and filtering, deploy Azure Firewall",
"guid": "7d5d1e4e-6146-458d-9558-fd77249b8211",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-wan/virtual-wan-about"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Virtual WAN",
"text": "When you're deploying partner networking technologies and NVAs, verify configuration with partner vendor's guidance to ensure there are no conflicting configurations",
"guid": "12df27ee-412e-47f9-a3f6-304722dd69c5",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-wan/virtual-wan-about"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Virtual WAN",
"text": "Ensure that Azure Virtual WAN and Azure Firewall resources are created in the connectivity subscription.",
"guid": "b5c2622f-54b6-49ba-b33a-ad5e8c68e1d7",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-wan/virtual-wan-about"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Virtual WAN",
"text": "Ensure that the network architecture is within the?Azure Virtual WAN limits.",
"guid": "6667313b-4f56-464b-9e98-4a859c773e7d",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-wan/virtual-wan-about"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Virtual WAN",
"text": "Use Azure Monitor Insights for Virtual WAN to monitor the end-to-end topology of the Virtual WAN as well as status and key metrics.",
"guid": "261623a7-65a9-417e-8f34-8ef254c27d42",
"severity": "Medium"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Hub and spoke",
"text": "Consider a network design based on the traditional hub-and-spoke network topology for the following scenarios",
"guid": "e8bbac75-7155-49ab-a153-e8908ae28c84",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/ready/enterprise-scale/network-topology-and-connectivity"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Hub and spoke",
"text": "Ensure that shared services, including ExpressRoute gateways, VPN gateways, and Azure Firewall or partner NVAs in the central-hub virtual network. If necessary, also deploy Active Directory domain controllers and DNS servers.",
"guid": "7dd61623-a364-4a90-9eca-e48ebd54cd7d",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/architecture/reference-architectures/hybrid-networking/expressroute"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Hub and spoke",
"text": "When you're deploying partner networking technologies or NVAs, follow the partner vendor's guidance",
"guid": "e2e8abac-3571-4559-ab91-53e89f89dc7b",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/ready/enterprise-scale/network-topology-and-connectivity"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Hub and spoke",
"text": "Do not deploy L7 inbound NVAs such as Azure Application Gateway as a shared service in the central-hub virtual network. Instead, deploy them together with the app in their respective landing zones.",
"guid": "44ce3b1a-2808-4b9e-a1bf-1038df03a822",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://azure.microsoft.com/solutions/network-appliances/"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Hub and spoke",
"text": "Ensure no transit in Azure between ExpressRoute and VPN gateways, isn't supported.",
"guid": "ce463dbb-bc8a-4c2a-aebc-92a43da1dae2",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://azure.microsoft.com/solutions/network-appliances/"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Hub and spoke",
"text": "For network architectures with multiple hub-and-spoke topologies across Azure regions, use global virtual network peering to connect landing-zone virtual networks when a small number of landing zones need to communicate across regions. ",
"guid": "cc881471-607c-41cc-a0e6-14658dd558f9",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/expressroute/expressroute-faqs"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Hub and spoke",
"text": "When you deploy a hub-and-spoke network architecture in two Azure regions and transit connectivity between all landing zones across regions is required, use ExpressRoute with dual circuits to provide transit connectivity for landing-zone virtual networks across Azure regions. ",
"guid": "37239b82-1112-4dbd-9eaf-12e6f943e53f",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/expressroute/expressroute-faqs"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Hub and spoke",
"text": "Use Azure Monitor for Networks to monitor the end-to-end state of the networks on Azure.",
"guid": "4722d929-c1b1-4cd6-81f5-4b29bade39ad",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/expressroute/expressroute-faqs"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Hub and spoke",
"text": "When connecting spoke virtual networks to the central hub virtual network, consider VNet peering limits and the maximum number of prefixes that can be advertised via ExpressRoute",
"guid": "0e7c28ec-9366-4572-83b0-f4664b1d944a",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-monitor/insights/network-insights-overview"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Hybrid",
"text": "Ensure that you have investigated the possibility to use ExpressRoute as primary connection to Azure.",
"guid": "359c373e-7dd6-4162-9a36-4a907ecae48e",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/architecture/reference-architectures/hybrid-networking/hub-spoke?tabs=cli"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Hybrid",
"text": "When you use multiple ExpressRoute circuits,?optimize ExpressRoute routing via BGP local preference and AS PATH prepending.",
"guid": "f29812b2-363c-4efe-879b-599de0d5973c",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/expressroute/expressroute-routing"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Hybrid",
"text": "Ensure that you're using the right SKU for the ExpressRoute/VPN gateways based on bandwidth and performance requirements.",
"guid": "d4cd21b0-8813-47f5-b6c4-cfd3e504547c",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/expressroute/expressroute-routing"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Hybrid",
"text": "Deploy a zone-redundant ExpressRoute gateway in the supported Azure regions.",
"guid": "2447ec66-138a-4720-8f1c-e16ed301d6e8",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/expressroute/expressroute-about-virtual-network-gateways"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Hybrid",
"text": "For scenarios that require bandwidth higher than 10 Gbps or dedicated 10/100-Gbps ports, use ExpressRoute Direct.",
"guid": "72e52e36-11cc-458b-9a4b-1511e43a58a9",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/networking/"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Hybrid",
"text": "When low latency is required, or throughput from on-premises to Azure must be greater than 10 Gbps, enable FastPath to bypass the ExpressRoute gateway from the data path.",
"guid": "c2299c4d-7b57-4d0c-9555-62f2b3e4563a",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/expressroute/expressroute-routing"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Hybrid",
"text": "Use VPN gateways to connect branches or remote locations to Azure. For higher resilience, deploy zone-redundant gateways (where available).",
"guid": "4d873974-8b66-42d6-b15f-512a65498f6d",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/expressroute/expressroute-routing"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Hybrid",
"text": "Use ExpressRoute Global Reach to connect large offices, regional headquarters, or datacenters connected to Azure via ExpressRoute.",
"guid": "fe237de1-43b1-46c3-8d7a-a9b64704489a",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/networking/"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Hybrid",
"text": "When traffic isolation or dedicated bandwidth is required, such as for separating production and nonproduction environments, use different ExpressRoute circuits. It will help you ensure isolated routing domains and alleviate noisy-neighbor risks.",
"guid": "8042d88e-79d1-47b7-9b22-a5a67e7a8ed4",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/networking/"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Hybrid",
"text": "Proactively monitor ExpressRoute circuits by using Network Performance Monitor.",
"guid": "b30e38c3-f298-412b-8363-cefe179b599d",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/networking/"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Hybrid",
"text": "Don't explicitly use ExpressRoute circuits from a single peering location. This creates a single point of failure and makes the organization susceptible to peering location outages.",
"guid": "e0d5973c-d4cd-421b-8881-37f5e6c4cfd3",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/networking/"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "PaaS",
"text": "Use virtual network injection for supported Azure services to make them available from within the virtual network.",
"guid": "e504547c-2447-4ec6-9138-a7200f1ce16e",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/networking/"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "PaaS",
"text": "Azure PaaS services that have been injected into a virtual network still perform management plane operations by using public IP addresses. Ensure that this communication is locked down within the virtual network by using UDRs and NSGs.",
"guid": "d301d6e8-72e5-42e3-911c-c58b5a4b1511",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/app-service/networking-features"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "PaaS",
"text": "Use Private Link, where available, for shared Azure PaaS services.",
"guid": "e43a58a9-c229-49c4-b7b5-7d0c655562f2",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/app-service/networking-features"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "PaaS",
"text": "Access Azure PaaS services from on-premises via ExpressRoute private peering. This method avoids transiting over the public internet.",
"guid": "b3e4563a-4d87-4397-98b6-62d6d15f512a",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/app-service/networking-features"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "PaaS",
"text": "Use virtual network service endpoints when Private Link isn't available",
"guid": "65498f6d-fe23-47de-843b-16c31d7aa9b6",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/app-service/networking-features"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "PaaS",
"text": "Don't enable virtual network service endpoints by default on all subnets.",
"guid": "4704489a-8042-4d88-b79d-17b73b22a5a6",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/app-service/networking-features"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "PaaS",
"text": "Don't use virtual network service endpoints when there are data exfiltration concerns, unless you use NVA filtering.",
"guid": "7e7a8ed4-b30e-438c-9f29-812b2363cefe",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/app-service/networking-features"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "PaaS",
"text": "Dont implement forced tunneling to enable communication from Azure to Azure resources.",
"guid": "179b599d-e0d5-4973-ad4c-d21b088137f5",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/app-service/networking-features"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Internet",
"text": "Use Azure Firewall to govern Azure outbound traffic to the internet, non-HTTP/S inbound connections and East/West traffic filtering (if the organization requires it)",
"guid": "e6c4cfd3-e504-4547-a244-7ec66138a720",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/app-service/networking-features"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Internet",
"text": "Use Firewall Manager with Virtual WAN to deploy and manage Azure firewalls across Virtual WAN hubs or in hub virtual networks. Firewall Manager is now in general availability for both Virtual WAN and regular virtual networks.",
"guid": "0f1ce16e-d301-4d6e-a72e-52e3611cc58b",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/firewall/"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Internet",
"text": "Create a global Azure Firewall policy to govern security posture across the global network environment and assign it to all Azure Firewall instances. Allow for granular policies to meet requirements of specific regions by delegating incremental firewall policies to local security teams via Azure role-based access control.",
"guid": "5a4b1511-e43a-458a-ac22-99c4d7b57d0c",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/firewall/"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Internet",
"text": "Configure supported partner SaaS security providers within Firewall Manager if the organization wants to use such solutions to help protect outbound connections.",
"guid": "655562f2-b3e4-4563-a4d8-739748b662d6",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/firewall/"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Internet",
"text": "Use WAF within a landing-zone virtual network for protecting inbound HTTP/S traffic from the internet.",
"guid": "d15f512a-6549-48f6-bfe2-37de143b16c3",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/firewall/"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Internet",
"text": "Use Azure Front Door and WAF policies to provide global protection across Azure regions for inbound HTTP/S connections to a landing zone.",
"guid": "1d7aa9b6-4704-4489-a804-2d88e79d17b7",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/web-application-firewall/ag/ag-overview"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Internet",
"text": "When you're using Azure Front Door and Azure Application Gateway to help protect HTTP/S apps, use WAF policies in Azure Front Door. Lock down Azure Application Gateway to receive traffic only from Azure Front Door.",
"guid": "3b22a5a6-7e7a-48ed-9b30-e38c3f29812b",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/web-application-firewall/ag/ag-overview"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Internet",
"text": "If partner NVAs are required for inbound HTTP/S connections, deploy them within a landing-zone virtual network and together with the apps that they're protecting and exposing to the internet.",
"guid": "2363cefe-179b-4599-be0d-5973cd4cd21b",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/web-application-firewall/ag/ag-overview"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Internet",
"text": "Use Azure DDoS Protection Standard protection plans to help protect all public endpoints hosted within the virtual networks.",
"guid": "088137f5-e6c4-4cfd-9e50-4547c2447ec6",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://azure.microsoft.com/solutions/network-appliances/"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "App delivery",
"text": "Perform app delivery within landing zones for both internal-facing and external-facing apps.",
"guid": "6138a720-0f1c-4e16-bd30-1d6e872e52e3",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://azure.microsoft.com/solutions/network-appliances/"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "App delivery",
"text": "For secure delivery of HTTP/S apps, use Application Gateway v2 and ensure that WAF protection and policies are enabled.",
"guid": "611cc58b-5a4b-4151-8e43-a58a9c2299c4",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/ddos-protection/ddos-protection-overview"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "App delivery",
"text": "Use a partner NVA if you can't use Application Gateway v2 for the security of HTTP/S apps.",
"guid": "d7b57d0c-6555-462f-8b3e-4563a4d87397",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/ready/azure-setup-guide/organize-resources?tabs=AzureManagementGroupsAndHierarchy"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "App delivery",
"text": "Deploy Azure Application Gateway v2 or partner NVAs used for inbound HTTP/S connections within the landing-zone virtual network and with the apps that they're securing.",
"guid": "48b662d6-d15f-4512-a654-98f6dfe237de",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/web-application-firewall/ag/ag-overview"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "App delivery",
"text": "Use a DDoS standard protection plan for all public IP addresses in a landing zone.",
"guid": "143b16c3-1d7a-4a9b-9470-4489a8042d88",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/web-application-firewall/ag/ag-overview"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "App delivery",
"text": "Use Azure Front Door with WAF policies to deliver and help protect global HTTP/S apps that span Azure regions.",
"guid": "e79d17b7-3b22-4a5a-97e7-a8ed4b30e38c",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/web-application-firewall/ag/ag-overview"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "App delivery",
"text": "When you're using Front Door and Application Gateway to help protect HTTP/S apps, use WAF policies in Front Door. Lock down Application Gateway to receive traffic only from Front Door.",
"guid": "3f29812b-2363-4cef-b179-b599de0d5973",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/ddos-protection/ddos-protection-overview"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "App delivery",
"text": "Use Traffic Manager to deliver global apps that span protocols other than HTTP/S.",
"guid": "cd4cd21b-0881-437f-9e6c-4cfd3e504547",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/web-application-firewall/ag/ag-overview"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Segmentation",
"text": "Delegate subnet creation to the landing zone owner. ",
"guid": "c2447ec6-6138-4a72-80f1-ce16ed301d6e",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/web-application-firewall/ag/ag-overview"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Segmentation",
"text": "Use NSGs to help protect traffic across subnets, as well as east/west traffic across the platform (traffic between landing zones).",
"guid": "872e52e3-611c-4c58-a5a4-b1511e43a58a",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/web-application-firewall/ag/ag-overview"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Segmentation",
"text": "The application team should use application security groups at the subnet-level NSGs to help protect multitier VMs within the landing zone.",
"guid": "9c2299c4-d7b5-47d0-a655-562f2b3e4563",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/ready/azure-setup-guide/organize-resources?tabs=AzureManagementGroupsAndHierarchy"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Segmentation",
"text": "Use NSGs and application security groups to micro-segment traffic within the landing zone and avoid using a central NVA to filter traffic flows.",
"guid": "a4d87397-48b6-462d-9d15-f512a65498f6",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-network/network-security-group-how-it-works"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Segmentation",
"text": "Enable NSG flow logs and feed them into Traffic Analytics to gain insights into internal and external traffic flows.",
"guid": "dfe237de-143b-416c-91d7-aa9b64704489",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-network/network-security-group-how-it-works"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Segmentation",
"text": "Use NSGs to selectively allow connectivity between landing zones.",
"guid": "a8042d88-e79d-417b-93b2-2a5a67e7a8ed",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-network/network-security-group-how-it-works"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Segmentation",
"text": "For Virtual WAN topologies, route traffic across landing zones via Azure Firewall if the organization requires filtering and logging capabilities for traffic flowing across landing zones.",
"guid": "4b30e38c-3f29-4812-a236-3cefe179b599",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-network/network-security-group-how-it-works"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Encryption",
"text": "When you're using ExpressRoute Direct, configure MACsec in order to encrypt traffic at the layer-two level between the organization's routers and MSEE. The diagram shows this encryption in flow.",
"guid": "de0d5973-cd4c-4d21-a088-137f5e6c4cfd",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-network/network-security-group-how-it-works"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Encryption",
"text": "If traffic between Azure regions must be encrypted, use global VNet peering to connect virtual networks across regions.",
"guid": "3e504547-c244-47ec-9613-8a7200f1ce16",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/firewall/"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Encryption",
"text": "For Virtual WAN scenarios where MACsec isn't an option (for example, not using ExpressRoute Direct), use a Virtual WAN VPN gateway to establish?IPsec tunnels over ExpressRoute private peering. ",
"guid": "ed301d6e-872e-452e-9611-cc58b5a4b151",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/expressroute/expressroute-erdirect-about"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Inspection",
"text": "Use Network Watcher packets to capture despite the limited capture window.",
"guid": "1e43a58a-9c22-499c-9d7b-57d0c655562f",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-network/virtual-network-peering-overview"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Inspection",
"text": "Evaluate whether the latest version of NSG flow logs provides the level of detail that you need.",
"guid": "2b3e4563-a4d8-4739-948b-662d6d15f512",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-wan/virtual-wan-about"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Inspection",
"text": "Use partner solutions for scenarios that require deep packet inspection.",
"guid": "a65498f6-dfe2-437d-b143-b16c31d7aa9b",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/network-watcher/network-watcher-monitoring-overview"
},
{
"category": "Networking",
"subcategory": "Inspection",
"text": "Don't develop a custom solution to mirror traffic. Although this approach might be acceptable for small-scale scenarios, we don't encourage it at scale because of complexity and the supportability issues that might arise.",
"guid": "64704489-a804-42d8-ae79-d17b73b22a5a",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-network/network-security-group-how-it-works"
},
{
"category": "Management",
"subcategory": "Monitoring",
"text": "Use a single monitor logs workspace to manage platforms centrally except where Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC), data sovereignty requirements, or data retention policies mandate separate workspaces.",
"guid": "67e7a8ed-4b30-4e38-a3f2-9812b2363cef",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-monitor/logs/design-logs-deployment"
},
{
"category": "Management",
"subcategory": "Monitoring",
"text": "Is the landing zone documented?",
"guid": "e179b599-de0d-4597-9cd4-cd21b088137f",
"severity": "Medium"
},
{
"category": "Management",
"subcategory": "Monitoring",
"text": "Export logs to Azure Storage if log retention requirements exceed two years. Use immutable storage with a write-once, read-many policy to make data non-erasable and non-modifiable for a user-specified interval.",
"guid": "5e6c4cfd-3e50-4454-9c24-47ec66138a72",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-monitor/logs/design-logs-deployment"
},
{
"category": "Management",
"subcategory": "Monitoring",
"text": "Use Azure Policy for access control and compliance reporting. Azure Policy provides the ability to enforce organization-wide settings to ensure consistent policy adherence and fast violation detection. ",
"guid": "00f1ce16-ed30-41d6-b872-e52e3611cc58",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-monitor/logs/design-logs-deployment"
},
{
"category": "Management",
"subcategory": "Monitoring",
"text": "Monitor in-guest virtual machine (VM) configuration drift using Azure Policy. Enabling?guest configuration?audit capabilities through policy helps application team workloads to immediately consume feature capabilities with little effort.",
"guid": "e7d7e484-3276-4d8b-bc05-5bcf619e8a13",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-monitor/logs/design-logs-deployment"
},
{
"category": "Management",
"subcategory": "Monitoring",
"text": "Use?Update Management in Azure Automation?as a long-term patching mechanism for both Windows and Linux VMs. ",
"guid": "f9887952-5d62-4688-9d70-ba6c97be9951",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-monitor/logs/design-logs-deployment"
},
{
"category": "Management",
"subcategory": "Monitoring",
"text": "Use Network Watcher to proactively monitor traffic flows",
"guid": "90483845-c986-4cb2-a131-56a12476e49f",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/governance/policy/how-to/guest-configuration-create"
},
{
"category": "Management",
"subcategory": "Monitoring",
"text": "Use resource locks to prevent accidental deletion of critical shared services.",
"guid": "541acdce-9793-477b-adb3-751ab2ab13ad",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/automation/update-management/overview"
},
{
"category": "Management",
"subcategory": "Monitoring",
"text": "Use?deny policies?to supplement Azure role assignments. The combination of deny policies and Azure role assignments ensures the appropriate guardrails are in place to enforce?who?can deploy and configure resources and?what?resources they can deploy and configure.",
"guid": "a6e55d7d-8a2a-4db1-87d6-326af625ca44",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/network-watcher/network-watcher-monitoring-overview"
},
{
"category": "Management",
"subcategory": "Monitoring",
"text": "Include service and resource health events as part of the overall platform monitoring solution. Tracking service and resource health from the platform perspective is an important component of resource management in Azure.",
"guid": "e5695f22-23ac-4e8c-a123-08ca5017f154",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-resource-manager/management/lock-resources?tabs=json"
},
{
"category": "Management",
"subcategory": "Monitoring",
"text": "Don't send raw log entries back to on-premises monitoring systems. Instead, adopt a principle that?data born in Azure stays in Azure. If on-premises SIEM integration is required, then?send critical alerts?instead of logs.",
"guid": "e3ab3693-829e-47e3-8618-3687a0477a20",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/governance/policy/overview"
},
{
"category": "Management",
"subcategory": "Monitoring",
"text": "Use a centralized Azure Monitor Log Analytics workspace to collect logs and metrics from IaaS and PaaS application resources and?control log access with Azure RBAC.",
"guid": "9945bda4-3334-4f24-a116-34182ba52752",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/?product=featured"
},
{
"category": "Management",
"subcategory": "Monitoring",
"text": "Use?Azure Monitor Logs?for insights and reporting.",
"guid": "6944008b-e7d7-4e48-9327-6d8bdc055bcf",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/sentinel/quickstart-onboard"
},
{
"category": "Management",
"subcategory": "Monitoring",
"text": "When necessary, use shared storage accounts within the landing zone for Azure diagnostic extension log storage.",
"guid": "619e8a13-f988-4795-85d6-26886d70ba6c",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-monitor/logs/design-logs-deployment"
},
{
"category": "Management",
"subcategory": "Monitoring",
"text": "Use?Azure Monitor alerts?for the generation of operational alerts.",
"guid": "97be9951-9048-4384-9c98-6cb2913156a1",
"severity": "Medium",
"link": "https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/ready/azure-setup-guide/monitoring-reporting?tabs=AzureMonitor"
},