More Info:

Microsoft Azure provides multiple distinct layers of encryption protection for virtual machine (VM) managed disks. VM managed disks are encrypted with Azure Storage encryption, also known as Server-Side Encryption (SSE), using platform-managed keys (PMK), to protect your data at rest and help you meet your organizational security and compliance commitments. By default, VM managed disk volumes (OS and data disk volumes) use platform-managed encryption keys.

Risk Level

High

Address

Security

Compliance Standards

ISO27001, HIPAA

Triage and Remediation

Remediation

Sure, here are the step-by-step instructions to remediate the misconfiguration:

  1. Log in to the Azure portal using your credentials.

  2. Navigate to the virtual machine that has the misconfiguration.

  3. Click on the “Disks” option from the left-hand side menu.

  4. Select the non-boot disk that requires encryption.

  5. Click on the “Disk encryption” option from the top menu.

  6. Select “Customer-managed key” for the encryption type.

  7. Select the key that you want to use for encryption from the list of available keys.

  8. Click on “Save” to apply the changes.

  9. Wait for the encryption process to complete. This may take a few minutes.

  10. Once the encryption process is complete, verify that the disk is now encrypted by checking the “Encryption status” column on the “Disks” page.

Congratulations! You have now successfully remediated the misconfiguration by enabling server-side encryption for the non-boot disk using a customer-managed key in Azure.