Detections
Analytics
6.2.1 Ensure that Activity Log Alert exists for Create Policy Assignment
Information
Create an activity log alert for the Create Policy Assignment event.Rationale:
Monitoring for create policy assignment events gives insight into changes done in 'Azure policy - assignments' and can reduce the time it takes to detect unsolicited changes.
Solution
Remediate from Azure PortalNavigate to the Monitor blade.
Select Alerts.
Select Create.
Select Alert rule.
Choose a subscription.
Select Apply.
Select the Condition tab.
Click See all signals.
Select Create policy assignment (Policy assignment).
Click Apply.
Select the Actions tab.
Click Select action groups to select an existing action group, or Create action group to create a new action group.
Follow the prompts to choose or create an action group.
Select the Details tab.
Select a Resource group, provide an Alert rule name and an optional Alert rule description.
Click Review + create.
Click Create.
Remediate from Azure CLI
az monitor activity-log alert create --resource-group '<resource group name>' --condition category=Administrative and operationName=Microsoft.Authorization/policyAssignments/write and level=<verbose | information | warning | error | critical> --scope '/subscriptions/<subscription ID>' --name '<activity log rule name>' --subscription <subscription ID> --action-group <action group ID>
Remediate from PowerShell
Create the conditions object.
$conditions = @()
$conditions += New-AzActivityLogAlertAlertRuleAnyOfOrLeafConditionObject -Equal Administrative -Field category
$conditions += New-AzActivityLogAlertAlertRuleAnyOfOrLeafConditionObject -Equal Microsoft.Authorization/policyAssignments/write -Field operationName
$conditions += New-AzActivityLogAlertAlertRuleAnyOfOrLeafConditionObject -Equal Verbose -Field level
Get the Action Group information and store it in a variable, then create a new Action object.
$actionGroup = Get-AzActionGroup -ResourceGroupName <resource group name> -Name <action group name>
$actionObject = New-AzActivityLogAlertActionGroupObject -Id $actionGroup.Id
Create the Scope variable.
$scope = '/subscriptions/<subscription ID>'
Create the Activity Log Alert Rule for Microsoft.Authorization/policyAssignments/write
New-AzActivityLogAlert -Name '<activity alert rule name>' -ResourceGroupName '<resource group name>' -Condition $conditions -Scope $scope -Location global -Action $actionObject -Subscription <subscription ID> -Enabled $true
Default Value:
By default, no monitoring alerts are created.
See Also
Item Details
Audit Name: CIS Microsoft Azure Foundations v3.0.0 L1
Category: AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY
References: 800-53|AU-3, 800-53|AU-3(1), 800-53|AU-7, 800-53|AU-12, CSCv7|6.3
Plugin: microsoft_azure
Control ID: d1585e6edfbb09823d66d3b3d5a0dede67cb6f6358fdc3275cd5c0fd45c465f8