Microsoft Azure Audit Compliance Reference

Azure refers to a series of Microsoft cloud services including virtual machine hosting, data storage, and hosted versions of IIS, MS SQL, and Active Directory. The Active Directory service is also used for Windows InTune and Office 365.

The Azure plugin utilizes the Azure REST API in order to obtain configuration information for your cloud environment. The REST API accepts and returns JSON.

The Microsoft Azure plugin provides debug information when the Plugin Debugging scan policy preference is set. The debug log is attached to scan results.

The plugin supports evaluation of output by regex, expect, not_expect, known_good, and json_transform keywords.

This section includes the following information:

• Scan Requirements
• Microsoft Azure Keywords
• Request Types
• Microsoft Azure Syntax