Azure compute benchmark is now aligned with CIS!

Security benchmarks help organizations strengthen their security posture and meet various cloud security compliance requirements. The Microsoft cloud security benchmark announced at Ignite 2022 provides clear and concrete guidance to securely configure cloud resources.   Today, we are excited to announce a new Azure compute benchmark for Azure virtual machines. This newly released benchmark has the CIS recommended security configurations aligned with the Azure environment. This new benchmark takes into consideration the cloud-specific security controls and removes non-applicable controls that have no significant risk impact in cloud environment.   ‘CIS Azure Compute Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Benchmark v1.0.0’ can be downloaded from CIS benchmark for Cloud compute. You will be able to seamlessly monitor the secure configuration settings of the new CIS benchmark in Microsoft Defender for Cloud as well as via the built-In Windows baseline Azure policy in the Azure policy Portal. — Lees op techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-defender-for-cloud/microsoft-cloud-security-benchmark-azure-compute-benchmark-is/ba-p/3680141