Ensure that Activity Log Alert exists for Delete Policy Assignment

MEDIUM

Description

Description:

Create an activity log alert for the Delete Policy Assignment event.

Rationale:

Monitoring for delete policy assignment events gives insight into changes done in "azure policy - assignments" and can reduce the time it takes to detect unsolicited changes.

Remediation

From Azure Portal

  1. Navigate to the Monitor blade.
  2. Select 'Alerts'.
  3. Select 'Create'.
  4. Select 'Alert rule'.
  5. Under 'Filter by subscription', choose a subscription.
  6. Under 'Filter by resource type', select 'Policy assignment (policyAssignments)'.
  7. Under 'Filter by location', select 'All'.
  8. From the results, select the subscription.
  9. Select 'Done'.
  10. Select the 'Condition' tab.
  11. Under 'Signal name', click 'Delete policy assignment (Microsoft.Authorization/policyAssignments)'.
  12. Select the 'Actions' tab.
  13. To use an existing action group, click 'Select action groups'. To create a new action group, click 'Create action group'. Fill out the appropriate details for the selection.
  14. Select the 'Details' tab.
  15. Select a 'Resource group', provide an 'Alert rule name' and an optional 'Alert rule description'.
  16. Click 'Review + create'.
  17. Click 'Create'.

From Azure CLI

az monitor activity-log alert create --resource-group "" --condition category=Administrative and operationName=Microsoft.Authorization/policyAssignments/delete and level=<verbose | information | warning | error | critical> --scope "/subscriptions/" --name "" --subscription --action-group --location global

From PowerShell

Create the conditions object

$conditions = @()
$conditions += New-AzActivityLogAlertAlertRuleAnyOfOrLeafConditionObject -Equal Administrative -Field category
$conditions += New-AzActivityLogAlertAlertRuleAnyOfOrLeafConditionObject -Equal Microsoft.Authorization/policyAssignments/delete -Field operationName
$conditions += New-AzActivityLogAlertAlertRuleAnyOfOrLeafConditionObject -Equal Verbose -Field level

Retrieve the 'Action Group' information and store in a variable, then create the 'Action' object.

$actionGroup = Get-AzActionGroup -ResourceGroupName -Name
$actionObject = New-AzActivityLogAlertActionGroupObject -Id $actionGroup.Id

Create the 'Scope' variable.

$scope = "/subscriptions/"

Create the 'Activity Log Alert Rule' for 'Microsoft.Authorization/policyAssignments/delete'.

New-AzActivityLogAlert -Name "" -ResourceGroupName "" -Condition $conditions -Scope $scope -Location global -Action $actionObject -Subscription -Enabled $true