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Enable Disk Encryption recommendations for virtual machines.

Risk Level

Low

Address

Security, Operational Maturity

Compliance Standards

ISO27001, HIPAA, HITRUST

Triage and Remediation

Remediation

To remediate the “Monitor Disk Encryption setting is not enabled” misconfiguration in Azure using the Azure console, follow these steps:

  1. Log in to the Azure portal and navigate to the “Security Center” dashboard.

  2. Click on the “Security policy” tab on the left-hand side of the screen.

  3. Under the “Policy initiatives” section, click on the “Enable monitoring of disk encryption” initiative.

  4. Click on the “Remediate” button at the bottom of the screen.

  5. In the pop-up window, review the remediation steps and click on the “Remediate” button again to confirm.

  6. Wait for the remediation process to complete. This may take several minutes.

  7. Once the remediation process is complete, verify that the “Monitor Disk Encryption setting” is now enabled by navigating to the “Security policy” tab and reviewing the policy compliance status.

By following these steps, you should be able to remediate the “Monitor Disk Encryption setting is not enabled” misconfiguration in Azure using the Azure console.