Updated Microsoft Azure Support

Summary

We are updating the compliance plugin for Microsoft Azure allowing us to support the guidance available in the CIS Microsoft Azure Foundations Benchmark. The new audits based on the CIS recommendations will replace the existing TNS Azure Best Practice audits. Several additional changes have been made to the plugin which are discussed in detail here.

Added Tenable Audits

• CIS Microsoft Azure Foundations L1 v1.1.0 audit
• CIS Microsoft Azure Foundations L2 v1.1.0 audit

Deprecated Tenable Audits

• TNS Microsoft Azure Best Practices Audit v1.0
• TNS Microsoft Azure Database Best Practices Audit v1.0.0
• TNS Microsoft Azure Websites Best Practices Audit v1.0.0

Target Release Date

26 Nov 2019

Additional Notes:

Auditing an Azure environment with Tenable.io and Nessus requires extra setup. Make sure that the steps outlined at the URL linked above have been completed in order to successfully complete a scan.

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