Generally available: Azure Monitor Agent supports Linux Hardening for CIS and SELinux

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Published

May 10, 2023

Status

Launched

Timeline

  • May 2023
    General Availability

Product

Azure Monitor
SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines

Tag

Features
Operating System

Category

DevOps
Management and governance
Compute
Databases

Description

Today AMA now supports CIS and SELinux hardening standards. For SELinux AMA works out of the box with a built in signed policy. For CIS, AMA currently supports the following distros and will continuously be adding more as our normal release and testing process.

These CIS images are also available in the Azure Marketplace. Different teams use different hardening rules, in order to standardize, we test and have validated against the Azure marketplace distros.

The Azure Monitoring Agent is also planned to support FIPs and STIG Linux hardening – to be released in the second half of this year (This is an internal soft commit Date)

Supported CIS Hardening Distros:

RHEL 7 L2
RHEL 8 L2
CentOS 7 L1
Ubuntu 18 L1
Ubuntu 20 L1
Debian 10 L1

Visit Linux Hardening Documentation for more information.