Transparent Data Encryption Disabled for SQL Databases

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Enable transparent data encryption for all SQL databases.

Risk Level

Medium

Address

Reliability, Security

Compliance Standards

SOC2, GDPR, NIST, ISO27001, HIPAA, CISAZURE, CBP, HITRUST, NISTCSF, PCIDSS

Triage and Remediation

Remediation

Using Console

Using CLI

To remediate the Transparent Data Encryption Disabled misconfiguration for SQL databases in AZURE using AZURE CLI, follow the below steps:Step 1: Connect to the Azure portal using the Azure CLI.Step 2: Run the below command to enable Transparent Data Encryption for an existing SQL database.

az sql db tde set --database-name <database-name> --resource-group <resource-group-name> --server <server-name> --status Enabled

Note: Replace <database-name>, <resource-group-name>, and <server-name> with the actual names of the database, resource group, and server respectively.Step 3: Verify the status of the TDE encryption by running the below command.

az sql db tde show --database-name <database-name> --resource-group <resource-group-name> --server <server-name>

This command will show the current status of the TDE encryption for the specified database.Step 4: Repeat Steps 2 and 3 for all the SQL databases in the Azure environment to ensure that Transparent Data Encryption is enabled for all the databases.By following the above steps, you can remediate the Transparent Data Encryption Disabled misconfiguration for SQL databases in AZURE using AZURE CLI.

Using Python

To remediate the Transparent Data Encryption Disabled misconfiguration for SQL Databases in Azure using Python, you can use the Azure SDK for Python to enable TDE for all SQL databases in a given Azure SQL Server. Here are the step by step instructions:

Install the Azure SDK for Python using pip:

pip install azure-mgmt-sql

Authenticate with Azure using your Azure account credentials:

from azure.common.credentials import UserPassCredentials
from azure.mgmt.sql import SqlManagementClient

# Replace the placeholders with your Azure account credentials
subscription_id = '<subscription_id>'
username = '<username>'
password = '<password>'

# Create the Azure credentials object
credentials = UserPassCredentials(username, password)

# Create the Azure SQL Management client
sql_client = SqlManagementClient(credentials, subscription_id)

Get a list of all the SQL Servers in your Azure subscription:

# Get a list of all the SQL Servers in your Azure subscription
servers = sql_client.servers.list()

# Print the names of all the SQL Servers
for server in servers:
    print(server.name)

For each SQL Server, get a list of all the SQL Databases and enable TDE for each database:

# For each SQL Server, get a list of all the SQL Databases and enable TDE for each database
for server in servers:
    # Get a list of all the SQL Databases in the SQL Server
    databases = sql_client.databases.list_by_server(server.resource_group, server.name)

    # For each SQL Database, enable TDE if it is not already enabled
    for database in databases:
        if not database.transparent_data_encryption.enabled:
            # Enable TDE for the SQL Database
            sql_client.transparent_data_encryptions.create_or_update(
                server.resource_group,
                server.name,
                database.name,
                {
                    'status': 'Enabled'
                }
            )

Verify that TDE is now enabled for all SQL Databases:

# Verify that TDE is now enabled for all SQL Databases
for server in servers:
    # Get a list of all the SQL Databases in the SQL Server
    databases = sql_client.databases.list_by_server(server.resource_group, server.name)

    # For each SQL Database, check if TDE is enabled
    for database in databases:
        if database.transparent_data_encryption.enabled:
            print('TDE is enabled for database {} in server {}'.format(database.name, server.name))
        else:
            print('TDE is not enabled for database {} in server {}'.format(database.name, server.name))

These steps will enable TDE for all SQL Databases in all SQL Servers in your Azure subscription. You can run this Python script periodically to ensure that TDE is always enabled for all SQL Databases.

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Risk Level

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Compliance Standards

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Remediation