Introduction to the Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark (MCSB)
Categories:
In the modern era like where we are today, security is a very important aspect of every system you manage. Bad security of 1 system can mess with all your systems.
So have a good overview of how secure your complete IT environment is, Microsoft released the Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark, which is an collection of high-impact security recommendations you can use to secure your cloud services, even when utilizing a hybrid environment. When using Microsoft Defender for Cloud, this MCSB is included in the recommendations.
Checking domains of the Cloud Security Benchmark
The Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark checks your overall security and gives you recommendations about the following domains:
- Network security (NS)
- Identity Management (IM)
- Privileged Access (PA)
- Data Protection (DP)
- Asset Management (AM)
- Logging and Threat Detection (LT)
- Incident Response (IR)
- Posture and Vulnerability Management (PV)
- Endpoint Security (ES)
- Backup and Recovery (BR)
- DevOps Security (DS)
- Governance and Strategy (GS)
The recommendations look like the list below:
- AM-1: Track asset inventory and their risks
- AM-2: Use only approved services
- AM-3: Ensure security of asset lifecycle management
- AM-4: Limit access to asset management
- AM-5: Use only approved applications in virtual machine
The tool gives you overall recommendations which have previously compromised environments and are based on best practices to help you to secure you complete IT posture at all aspects. The aim is to secure all your systems, not just one.
For more information about this very interesting benchmark, check out this page: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/security/benchmark/azure/introduction
End of the page 🎉
You have reached the end of the page. You can navigate through other blog posts as well, share this post on X, LinkedIn and Reddit or return to the blog posts collection page. Thank you for visiting this post.
If you think something is wrong with this post or you want to know more, you can send me a message to one of my social profiles at: https://justinverstijnen.nl/about/
If you find this page and blog very useful and you want to leave a donation, you can use the button below to buy me a beer. Hosting and maintaining a website takes a lot of time and money. Thank you in advance and cheers :)
The terms and conditions apply to this post.