The recommendation and policy to enable encryption of storage account have been removed

Azure Updates

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Published

Jul 23, 2019

Status

Launched

Timeline

  • July 2019
    General Availability

Product

Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Tag

Security

Category

Hybrid + multicloud
Security

Description

Azure Storage is encrypted by default now and cannot be un-encrypted. Therefore, the Enable encryption of storage account recommendation and its corresponding policy, (Preview): Audit missing blob encryption for storage accounts, have been removed. For more information, see Azure Storage encryption for data at rest.