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Security Center default policy setting "Monitor Adaptive Application Whitelisting" is not enabled Affecting Security Center service in Azure

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    Severity Framework Snyk CCSS
    Rule category Monitoring / Malware

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-CC-00674
  • credit Snyk Research Team
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Description

Adaptive application controls help control which applications can run on VMs located in Azure, which helps harden those VMs against malware.

How to fix?

Set policyDefinitionId to /providers/Microsoft.Authorization/policyDefinitions/47a6b606-51aa-4496-8bb7-64b11cf66adc, and set enforcementMode to Default or remove the attribute.

Example Configuration

{
    "$schema": "https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2019-04-01/deploymentTemplate.json#",
    "contentVersion": "1.0.0.0",
    "parameters": {},
    "variables": {},
    "resources": [
        {
            "type": "Microsoft.Authorization/policyAssignments",
            "apiVersion": "2019-09-01",
            "name": "policy_674_allowed",
            "properties": {
                "displayName": "Adaptive application controls for defining safe applications should be enabled on your machines",
                "description": "Enable application controls to define the list of known-safe applications running on your machines, and alert you when other applications run. This helps harden your machines against malware. To simplify the process of configuring and maintaining your rules, Security Center uses machine learning to analyze the applications running on each machine and suggest the list of known-safe applications.",
                "enforcementMode": "Default",
                "scope": "/subscriptions/5f479449-6df7-4c39-af0f-d8837aa02eec/resourcegroups/snyk_3",
                "policyDefinitionId": "/providers/Microsoft.Authorization/policyDefinitions/47a6b606-51aa-4496-8bb7-64b11cf66adc"
            }
        }
    ]
}