Achieve ISO 27001 Compliance for Azure Virtual Machines

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Achieve ISO 27001 Compliance for Azure Virtual Machines

ISO 27001 compliance is essential for ensuring the security and management of sensitive information across your organization. Pulumi can assist you in making your Azure infrastructure ISO 27001 compliant. Pulumi can help you identify existing cloud resources that are not in compliance, and it can also enforce compliance policies proactively before infrastructure is deployed. Get started with Pulumi to use these compliance tools or speak with a Solutions Architect to get an expert consultation.

What is ISO 27001 Compliance?

ISO 27001 is an internationally recognized standard for establishing, implementing, maintaining, and continually improving an information security management system (ISMS). It helps organizations protect sensitive data by providing a risk-based approach, ensuring that security measures are proportionate to the risks faced. ISO 27001 is based around the following 3 pillars: confidentiality, integrity, and availability. By achieving ISO 27001 certification, organizations demonstrate their commitment to robust information security practices and regulatory compliance.

Key Aspects of ISO 27001 Compliance

  1. Risk Management: ISO 27001 requires organizations to assess risks related to their information assets and implement controls to mitigate these risks.
  2. Security Controls: The standard includes a comprehensive set of security controls (outlined in Annex A) that cover areas like access control, cryptography, physical security, and incident management.
  3. ISMS Implementation: Organizations must establish an ISMS, which is a systematic approach to managing sensitive company information so that it remains secure. This involves setting policies, procedures, and controls.
  4. Continuous Improvement: ISO 27001 emphasizes the importance of continually monitoring, reviewing, and improving the ISMS to adapt to changing security risks and business needs.
  5. Compliance and Certification: Organizations can seek certification to ISO 27001 by undergoing an external audit conducted by a certification body. Certification demonstrates that an organization has implemented best practices for information security management.
  6. Legal and Regulatory Requirements: ISO 27001 helps organizations comply with legal, regulatory, and contractual obligations related to information security.

Pulumi Insights

Use Pulumi Insights to gain visibility into your cloud infrastructure's configuration to assess ISO 27001 compliance. Pulumi Insights is Intelligent Cloud Management. It helps you gain security, compliance, and cost insights into the entirety of your organization's cloud assets and automatically remediate issues.

Pulumi Copilot

Use Pulumi Copilot to assist configuring your infrastructure to make it compliance ready. You can tap into the Pulumi Copilot's deep understanding of your organization's context to gain visibility into the configuration of resources and assess their compliance.

Compliance Ready Policies

With comprehensive coverage of Azure, Pulumi Compliance Ready Policies provide an enhanced level of control and governance over your cloud resources. Pulumi Compliance Ready Policies empower you to enforce best practices, security standards, cost controls, and compliance requirements seamlessly within your infrastructure-as-code workflows.

What is Azure Virtual Machines?

Azure Virtual Machines provide scalable, on-demand compute resources in the cloud, enabling users to run applications, deploy workloads, and manage operating systems without maintaining physical hardware. With support for various operating systems like Windows and Linux, users can configure and scale VMs to meet their performance and cost requirements. Azure Virtual Machines offer features like auto-scaling, high availability, and seamless integration with other Azure services for enhanced cloud-based computing.

What controls can I put in place to evaluate Azure Virtual Machines resources?

  • Azure Managed Disks snapshots should not be publicly restorable
  • Azure Virtual Network (VNet) default network security groups (NSGs) should not allow inbound or outbound traffic
  • Attached Azure Managed Disks should be encrypted at rest
  • Stopped Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) should be removed after a specified time period
  • Network security logging should be enabled for all Azure VNets
  • Default encryption for Azure Managed Disks should be enabled
  • Azure VMs should use Instance Metadata Service Version 2 (IMDSv2)
  • Azure Virtual Machines should not have a public IP address
  • Azure Virtual Machines should be configured to use private link or VNet service endpoints
  • Unused Azure Public IPs should be removed
  • Network security groups should not allow ingress from 0.0.0.0/0 to SSH port (22)
  • Network security groups should not allow ingress from 0.0.0.0/0 to RDP port (3389)
  • Azure Virtual Networks should not automatically assign public IP addresses
  • Unused Network Security Groups should be removed
  • Azure Virtual Machines should not use multiple network interfaces (NICs)
  • Network security groups should only allow unrestricted incoming traffic for authorized ports
  • Network security groups should not allow unrestricted access to high-risk ports
  • Both VPN tunnels for an Azure VPN Gateway connection should be up
  • Network security groups should not allow ingress from 0.0.0.0/0 to port 22 or port 3389
  • Azure Virtual Network (VNet) peering connections should not automatically accept peering requests
  • Azure VM instances should not use legacy VM types
  • Azure VM scale sets should not assign public IPs to NICs
  • Azure Managed Disks should be covered by a backup policy
  • Azure Virtual Network Gateway connections should be tagged
  • Azure Virtual Network route tables should be tagged
  • Azure Network Interfaces (NICs) should be tagged
  • Azure Virtual Network Gateways should be tagged
  • Azure Public IPs should be tagged
  • Azure Virtual Machines should be tagged
  • Azure Virtual Network Gateways should be tagged
  • Azure NAT Gateways should be tagged
  • Azure Network Security Groups should be tagged
  • Azure Virtual Networks should be tagged
  • Azure Virtual Network endpoint services should be tagged
  • Azure VNet flow logs should be tagged
  • Azure VNet peering connections should be tagged
  • Azure VPN Gateways should be tagged
  • Azure Client VPN endpoints should have client connection logging enabled
  • Azure Virtual Network Gateways should be tagged

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