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SQL Advanced Threat Protection - Requirements Unclear
When configuring Defender for SQL, nothing suggests auditing is required for ATP to work. However, when looking at audit section https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/database/auditing-o...
- SQL auditing is not a requirement for MDC to protect your Azure SQL, it's a recommendation based on the MS benchmark to increase your posture score. MDC will work if SQL audit is enabled or not.
It doesn't specify that the auditing is a requirement for the APT functionality to be able to correlate and create alerts.
SQL auditing is not a requirement for MDC to protect your Azure SQL, it's a recommendation based on the MS benchmark to increase your posture score. MDC will work if SQL audit is enabled or not.
- This is spot on - confirmed with with MS support as well.