Enable Monitoring of Deprecated Accounts

01 Sign in to Azure Management Console.

02 Navigate to Azure Security Center blade at https://portal.azure.com/#blade/Microsoft_Azure_Security/SecurityMenuBlade/.

03 In the navigation panel, choose Security policy to access Policy Management portal.

04 On the Policy Management page, click on the name of the subscription that you want to examine to access the policy configuration settings for the selected subscription.

05 On the Security Policy page, choose the Security center default policy, then click View effective policy button.

06 On the default security policy page, within the Identity section, check the Deprecated accounts should be removed from your subscription setting status. If the configuration setting is Disabled, the monitoring of deprecated accounts within the selected Azure subscription is not enabled.

07 Repeat step no. 4 – 6 for each subscription available in your Microsoft Azure account.

01 Run account get-access-token command (Windows/macOS/Linux) using custom query filters to describe the monitoring status for the deprecated accounts available within the current subscription:

az account get-access-token
	--query "{subscription:subscription,accessToken:accessToken}"
	--out tsv | xargs -L1 bash -c 'curl -X GET -H "Authorization: Bearer $1" -H "Content-Type: application/json" https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/$0/providers/Microsoft.Authorization/policyAssignments/SecurityCenterBuiltIn?api-version=2018-05-01' | jq 'select(.name=="SecurityCenterBuiltIn")'|jq '.properties.parameters.identityRemoveDeprecatedAccountMonitoringEffect.value'

02 The command output should return the requested Azure Security Center monitoring status:

"Disabled"

03 Repeat step no. 1 and 2 for each subscription created in your Microsoft Azure account.

01 Sign in to Azure Management Console.

02 Navigate to Azure Security Center blade at https://portal.azure.com/#blade/Microsoft_Azure_Security/SecurityMenuBlade/.

03 In the navigation panel, choose Security policy to access Policy Management portal.

04 On the Policy Management page, click on the name of the subscription that you want to reconfigure to access the policy settings available for the selected subscription.

05 On the Security Policy page, click on the ASC Default (subscription: <azure-subscription-id>) link to edit the default policy assignment.

06 On the selected policy assignment page, perform the following actions:

1. Choose the Parameters tab to access the policy parameters.
2. Select AuditIfNotExists from Deprecated accounts should be removed from your subscription dropdown list to enable the monitoring of the deprecated accounts available in the selected subscription.
3. Click Review + save to review the configuration changes, then click Save to apply the changes. If successful, the following message should be displayed: "Updating policy assignment succeeded". Once the configuration changes are saved, the Security Center service should start monitoring for any deprecated accounts available in the selected subscription.

07 If required, repeat steps no. 4 – 6 for other Microsoft Azure cloud subscriptions available.

01 Define the necessary specifications for the account get-access-token command, where the identityRemoveDeprecatedAccountMonitoringEffect configuration parameter is enabled using the "AuditIfNotExists" flag. Save the following content to a JSON file named enable-deprecated-accounts-monitoring.json and replace the highlighted details, i.e. <azure-subscription-id> and <policy-definition-id>, with your own Azure account details:

{
   "properties":{
      "displayName":"ASC Default (subscription: <azure-subscription-id>)",
"policyDefinitionId":"/providers/Microsoft.Authorization/policySetDefinitions/<policy-definition-id>",
      "scope":"/subscriptions/<azure-subscription-id>",
      "parameters":{
         "identityRemoveDeprecatedAccountMonitoringEffect":{
            "value":"AuditIfNotExists"
         }
      }
   },
"id":"/subscriptions/<azure-subscription-id>/providers/Microsoft.Authorization/policyAssignments/SecurityCenterBuiltIn",
   "type":"Microsoft.Authorization/policyAssignments",
   "name":"SecurityCenterBuiltIn",
   "location":"eastus"
}

02 Run account get-access-token command (Windows/macOS/Linux) using the specifications defined at the previous step (i.e. enable-deprecated-accounts-monitoring.json file) to enable the monitoring of the deprecated accounts available in the current Azure subscription:

az account get-access-token
	--query "{subscription:subscription,accessToken:accessToken}"
	--out tsv | xargs -L1 bash -c 'curl -X PUT -H "Authorization: Bearer $1" -H "Content-Type: application/json" https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/$0/providers/Microsoft.Authorization/policyAssignments/SecurityCenterBuiltIn?api-version=2018-05-01 -d@"enable-deprecated-accounts-monitoring.json"'

03 If successful, the command output should return the updated Azure Security Center policy:

{
   "sku":{
      "name":"A0",
      "tier":"Free"
   },
   "properties":{
      "displayName":"ASC Default (subscription: abcdabcd-1234-1234-1234-abcdabcdabcd)",
      "policyDefinitionId":"/providers/Microsoft.Authorization/policySetDefinitions/abcd1234-abcd-1234-abcd-1234abcd1234",
      "scope":"/subscriptions/abcdabcd-1234-1234-1234-abcdabcdabcd",
      "parameters":{
         "identityRemoveDeprecatedAccountMonitoringEffect":{
            "value":"AuditIfNotExists"
         }
      },
      "metadata":{
         "createdBy":"1234abcd-1234-abcd-1234-abcd1234abcd",
         "createdOn":"2019-05-17T15:55:40.00000000",
         "updatedBy":"abcd1234-abcd-1234-abcd-1234abcd1234",
         "updatedOn":"2020-03-17T13:12:48.00000000"
      }
   },
   "id":"/subscriptions/abcdabcd-1234-1234-1234-abcdabcdabcd/providers/Microsoft.Authorization/policyAssignments/SecurityCenterBuiltIn",
   "type":"Microsoft.Authorization/policyAssignments",
   "name":"SecurityCenterBuiltIn",
   "location":"eastus"
}

04 If required, repeat steps no. 1 – 3 for other Microsoft Azure cloud subscriptions available.