storage_soft_delete

Azure Blob Storage Accounts Without Soft Delete Enabled

What It Does

This policy template reports any Azure Blob Storage Accounts that do not have soft delete enabled. Optionally, this report can be emailed.

Input Parameters

• Email Addresses - Email addresses of the recipients you wish to notify when new incidents are created.
• Azure Endpoint - The endpoint to send Azure API requests to. Recommended to leave this at default unless using this policy with Azure China.
• Storage Account Ignore List - A list of Azure Storage Accounts to never include in the results.
• Allow/Deny Subscriptions - Allow or Deny entered Subscriptions to filter results.
• Allow/Deny Subscriptions List - A list of allowed or denied Subscription IDs/names. Leave blank to check all Subscriptions.
• Allow/Deny Regions - Allow or Deny entered regions to filter results.
• Allow/Deny Regions List - A list of allowed or denied regions. Leave blank to check all Subscriptions.
• Exclusion Tags - The policy will filter resources containing the specified tags from the results. The following formats are supported:
  • Key - Filter all resources with the specified tag key.
  • Key==Value - Filter all resources with the specified tag key:value pair.
  • Key!=Value - Filter all resources missing the specified tag key:value pair. This will also filter all resources missing the specified tag key.
  • Key=~/Regex/ - Filter all resources where the value for the specified key matches the specified regex string.
  • Key!~/Regex/ - Filter all resources where the value for the specified key does not match the specified regex string. This will also filter all resources missing the specified tag key.
• Exclusion Tags: Any / All - Whether to filter instances containing any of the specified tags or only those that contain all of them. Only applicable if more than one value is entered in the Exclusion Tags field.

Policy Actions

• Send an email report

Prerequisites

This Policy Template uses Credentials for authenticating to datasources -- in order to apply this policy you must have a Credential registered in the system that is compatible with this policy. If there are no Credentials listed when you apply the policy, please contact your Flexera Org Admin and ask them to register a Credential that is compatible with this policy. The information below should be consulted when creating the credential(s).

• Azure Resource Manager Credential (provider=azure_rm) which has the following permissions:

  • Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/read

• Flexera Credential (provider=flexera) which has the following roles:

  • billing_center_viewer

The Provider-Specific Credentials page in the docs has detailed instructions for setting up Credentials for the most common providers.

Supported Clouds

• Azure

Cost

This policy template does not incur any cloud costs.