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Retention policy for flow logs should be enabled and set to greater than 90 days

Default Severity: low

Explanation

Flow logs are the source of truth for all network activity in your cloud environment. To enable analysis in security event that was detected late, you need to have the logs available.

Setting an retention policy will help ensure as much information is available for review.

Possible Impact

Not enabling retention or having short expiry on flow logs could lead to compromise being undetected limiting time for analysis

Suggested Resolution

Ensure flow log retention is turned on with an expiry of >90 days

Insecure Example

The following example will fail the azure-network-retention-policy-set check. 

resource "azurerm_network_watcher_flow_log" "bad_watcher" {
    network_watcher_name = "bad_watcher"
    resource_group_name = "resource-group"

    network_security_group_id = azurerm_network_security_group.test.id
    storage_account_id = azurerm_storage_account.test.id
    enabled = true

    retention_policy {
        enabled = true
        days = 7
    }
}

Secure Example

The following example will pass the azure-network-retention-policy-set check. 

resource "azurerm_network_watcher_flow_log" "good_watcher" {
    network_watcher_name = "good_watcher"
    resource_group_name = "resource-group"

    network_security_group_id = azurerm_network_security_group.test.id
    storage_account_id = azurerm_storage_account.test.id
    enabled = true

    retention_policy {
        enabled = true
        days = 90
    }
}