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defender-on-sql-servers-vms

Explanation

Azure Defender is a cloud workload protection service that utilizes and agent-based deployment to analyze signals from Azure network fabric and the service control plane, to detect threats across all Azure resources. It can also analyze non-Azure resources, utilizing Azure Arc, including those on-premises and in both AWS and GCP (once they've been onboarded).

Possible Impact

Azure Defender for SQL servers on machines extends the protections for your Azure-native SQL Servers to fully support hybrid environments and protect SQL servers (all supported version) hosted in Azure.

Suggested Resolution

Enable ContainerRegistry in Azure Defender

Insecure Example

The following example will fail the azure-security-center-defender-on-sql-servers-vms check.

resource "azurerm_security_center_subscription_pricing" "bad_example" {
  tier          = "Free"
  resource_type = "VirtualMachines"
}

Secure Example

The following example will pass the azure-security-center-defender-on-sql-servers-vms check.

resource "azurerm_security_center_subscription_pricing" "good_example" {
  tier          = "Standard"
  resource_type = "VirtualMachines,SqlServerVirtualMachines"
}