Information
Enable security alert emails to subscription owners.
Enabling security alert emails to subscription owners ensures that they receive security alert emails from Microsoft. This ensures that they are aware of any potential security issues and can mitigate the risk in a timely fashion.
Solution
Remediate from Azure Portal
- From Azure Home select the Portal Menu
- Select Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- Under Management select Environment Settings
- Click on the appropriate Management Group, Subscription, or Workspace
- Click on Email notifications
- In the drop down of the All users with the following roles field select Owner
- Click Save
Remediate from Azure CLI
Use the below command to set Send email also to subscription owners to On
az account get-access-token --query "{subscription:subscription,accessToken:accessToken}" --out tsv | xargs -L1 bash -c 'curl -X PUT -H "Authorization: Bearer $1" -H "Content-Type: application/json" https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/$0/providers/Microsoft.Security/securityContacts/default1?api-version=2017-08-01-preview -d@"input.json"'
Where input.json contains the data below, replacing validEmailAddress with a single email address or multiple comma-separated email addresses:
{
"id": "/subscriptions/<Your_Subscription_Id>/providers/Microsoft.Security/securityContacts/default1",
"name": "default1",
"type": "Microsoft.Security/securityContacts",
"properties": {
"email": "<validEmailAddress>",
"alertNotifications": "On",
"alertsToAdmins": "On",
"notificationsByRole": "Owner"
}
}