Install Endpoint Protection
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ensure that all your Microsoft Azure virtual machines (VMs) have endpoint protection installed in order to help you identify and remove viruses, spyware and other malicious software. The Azure Security Center service monitors the status of anti-malware protection for Azure virtual machines (VMs) and highlights if there is insufficient protection, marking the virtual machines without endpoint protection as vulnerable to malware threats.Risk Level
HighAddress
SecurityCompliance Standards
HITRUST, SOC2, NISTCSF, PCIDSSTriage and Remediation
Remediation
Using Console
Using Console
To remediate the misconfiguration “Install Endpoint Protection” in AZURE using the AZURE console, you can follow these step-by-step instructions:
- Log in to the AZURE portal using your credentials.
- Navigate to the “Security Center” from the dashboard.
- Click on the “Recommendations” tab on the left-hand side of the screen.
- Find the “Install endpoint protection solution on your virtual machines” recommendation and click on it.
- Review the recommendation details and click on the “Remediate” button at the bottom of the screen.
- In the “Remediate recommendation” window, select the virtual machines you want to remediate.
- Choose the endpoint protection solution that you want to install on your virtual machines.
- Review the remediation details and click on the “Remediate” button to start the remediation process.
- Wait for the remediation process to complete. Once completed, you can verify that the endpoint protection solution is installed on your virtual machines.
Using CLI
Using CLI
To remediate the misconfiguration “Install Endpoint Protection” for Azure using Azure CLI, follow these steps:
- Open the Azure CLI and login to your Azure account.
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Identify the virtual machine(s) that need endpoint protection installed. You can do this by running the following command:
This command will list all the virtual machines in your Azure account along with their operating system type.
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Install the endpoint protection extension on the virtual machine(s) by running the following command:
Replace
<vm-name>with the name of the virtual machine that needs endpoint protection installed and<resource-group-name>with the name of the resource group that the virtual machine is in. -
Once the extension is installed, you can verify its status by running the following command:
This command will list all the extensions installed on the virtual machine, including the endpoint protection extension.
- Repeat steps 3 and 4 for all the virtual machines that need endpoint protection installed.
- Once the endpoint protection extension is installed on all the virtual machines, you should configure it according to your organization’s security policies. This may include setting up malware scanning schedules, configuring exclusions, and setting up alerts for malware detections.
Using Python
Using Python
To remediate the misconfiguration of not having Endpoint Protection installed in Azure using Python, you can follow these steps:Note: This code snippet assumes that you are using the Microsoft Antimalware extension for Endpoint Protection. If you are using a different solution, you will need to modify the code accordingly.
- First, you need to import the required libraries and authenticate to your Azure account using the Azure SDK for Python. You can use the following code snippet to do this:
- Once you have authenticated to your Azure account, you can use the
compute_client.virtual_machines.list_all()method to get a list of all the virtual machines in your subscription. You can then iterate through this list and check if Endpoint Protection is installed on each virtual machine. You can use the following code snippet to do this:
- If Endpoint Protection is not installed on a virtual machine, you can use the
compute_client.virtual_machines.extensions.create_or_update()method to install it. You can use the following code snippet to do this:
- Once you have installed Endpoint Protection on all the virtual machines that do not have it, you can verify that it is installed by running the code snippet in step 2 again.