Information
[NOTE: As of August 1, 2023 customers with an existing subscription to Defender for DNS can continue to use the service, but new subscribers will receive alerts about suspicious DNS activity as part of Defender for Servers P2.]
Microsoft Defender for DNS scans all network traffic exiting from within a subscription.
Rationale:
DNS lookups within a subscription are scanned and compared to a dynamic list of websites that might be potential security threats. These threats could be a result of a security breach within your services, thus scanning for them could prevent a potential security threat from being introduced.
Impact:
Enabling Microsoft Defender for DNS requires enabling Microsoft Defender for your subscription. Both will incur additional charges, with Defender for DNS being a small amount per million queries.
Solution
Remediate from Azure Portal
Go to Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
Under Management, select Environment Settings.
Click on the subscription name.
Select the Defender plans blade.
Select On under Status for DNS.
Select Save.
Remediate from Azure CLI
Enable Standard pricing tier for DNS:
az security pricing create -n 'DNS' --tier 'Standard'
Remediate from PowerShell
Enable Standard pricing tier for DNS:
Set-AzSecurityPricing -Name 'DNS' -PricingTier 'Standard'
Default Value:
By default, Microsoft Defender for DNS is not enabled.