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Apply CIS compliant Azure Security baselines through Azure Automanage!

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akanksha_agrawal
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Mar 22, 2023
We are thrilled to announce that Azure Automanage Machine Best Practices now enables you to apply CIS aligned Azure security baselines through Automanage Machine Configuration.   Azure Automanage...
Updated Sep 19, 2023
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Roger Carlsson
Copper Contributor
Oct 03, 2023

We applied the CIS Azure Compute Microsoft Windows Server Benchmark and did a CIS compliancy check through Qualys Cloud. 

 

The standard Microsoft image without CIS Azure Compute Microsoft Windows Server Benchmark was showing 29% CIS compliancy.

After applying the CIS Azure Compute Microsoft Windows Server Benchmark we could see 50% CIS compliancy.

As a reference the CIS image from Cisecurity is showing 93% CIS compliancy.


Is 50% CIS compliancy an expected result ?