Azure Policy Regulatory Compliance controls for Azure AI Search
If you are using Azure Policy to enforce the recommendations in Azure Security Benchmark, then you probably already know that you can create policies for identifying and fixing non-compliant services. These policies might be custom, or they might be based on built-in definitions that provide compliance criteria and appropriate solutions for well-understood best practices.
For Azure AI Search, there is currently one built-definition, listed below, that you can use in a policy assignment. The built-in is for logging and monitoring. By using this built-in definition in a policy that you create, the system will scan for search services that do not have diagnostic logging, and then enable it accordingly.
Regulatory Compliance in Azure Policy provides Microsoft-created and managed initiative definitions, known as built-ins, for the compliance domains and security controls related to different compliance standards. This page lists the compliance domains and security controls for Azure AI Search. You can assign the built-ins for a security control individually to help make your Azure resources compliant with the specific standard.
The title of each built-in policy definition links to the policy definition in the Azure portal. Use the link in the Policy Version column to view the source on the Azure Policy GitHub repo.
Important
Each control is associated with one or more Azure Policy definitions. These policies might help you assess compliance with the control. However, there often isn't a one-to-one or complete match between a control and one or more policies. As such, Compliant in Azure Policy refers only to the policies themselves. This doesn't ensure that you're fully compliant with all requirements of a control. In addition, the compliance standard includes controls that aren't addressed by any Azure Policy definitions at this time. Therefore, compliance in Azure Policy is only a partial view of your overall compliance status. The associations between controls and Azure Policy Regulatory Compliance definitions for these compliance standards can change over time.
Azure Security Benchmark
The Azure Security Benchmark provides recommendations on how you can secure your cloud solutions on Azure. To see how this service completely maps to the Azure Security Benchmark, see the Azure Security Benchmark mapping files.
| Domain | Control ID | Control Title | Policy (Azure portal) |
Policy Version (GitHub) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Logging and Monitoring | 2.3 | Enable audit logging for Azure resources | Diagnostic logs in Search services should be enabled | 3.0.0 |
Next steps
- See the built-ins on the Azure Policy GitHub repo.