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Enable OS Vulnerabilities recommendations for virtual machines.

Risk Level

Low

Address

Security, Operational Maturity

Compliance Standards

SOC2, ISO27001, HIPAA

Triage and Remediation

Remediation

To remediate the “Monitor OS Vulnerabilities setting is not enabled” misconfiguration in Azure using the Azure console, you can follow these steps:

  1. Log in to the Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com/).

  2. Navigate to the Azure Security Center from the left-hand menu.

  3. Click on the “Security policy” tab.

  4. Select the subscription you want to remediate.

  5. Click on the “Edit” button next to the security policy.

  6. Scroll down to the “Endpoint protection” section.

  7. Under “Operating system vulnerabilities”, make sure the “Monitor” setting is enabled.

  8. If it is not enabled, click on the “On” button to enable it.

  9. Click on the “Save” button to save the changes.

  10. Wait for the changes to take effect.

Once these steps are completed, the “Monitor OS Vulnerabilities setting is not enabled” misconfiguration will be remediated in Azure.