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Virtual machine data disk (non-boot volume) is not encrypted Affecting Compute service in Azure

Severity

0.0
medium
0
10
    Severity Framework
    Snyk CCSS
    Rule category
    Data / Encryption at Rest

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-CC-00507
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Description

Encrypting the virtual machine's data disks ensures that its entire content is fully unrecoverable without a key and thus protects the volume from unwarranted reads.

How to fix?

Set properties.encryptionSettings.enabled attribute to true.