Enhance Your Azure Security with CIS Microsoft Azure Security Benchmark

Jiadong Chen
2 min readApr 19, 2023
source: Microsoft

Microsoft, in partnership with the Center for Internet Security, has created the CIS Microsoft Azure Security Benchmark which provides guidelines for establishing a secure baseline configuration for Azure workloads.
This benchmark contains recommendations for both minimum and highly secure environments. It also specifies categories and a number of recommendations for configuring a secure cloud-enabled environment.

👉 𝐈𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐲 & 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭
- ✅ Create a Conditional Access policy that blocks non-admins access to Microsoft Azure Management.
- ✅ Enable multifactor authentication for Azure AD users
- ✅ Notify all admins when other admins reset passwords
- ✅ Require two methods to reset passwords
- ✅ and more!
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👉 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐨𝐟𝐭 𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝
- ✅ Enable enhanced security features
- ✅ Enable System Updates
- ✅ Enable Security Configurations
- ✅ and more!
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Jiadong Chen

Microsoft MVP, MCT | Azure Certified Solutions Architect & Cybersecurity Architect Expert | Member of .NET Foundation | Packt Author