Enable Adaptive Application Safelisting Monitoring

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 selected subscription configuration settings.

05 On the Security Policy page, in the Compute and Apps category, check the Adaptive Application Controls should be enabled on virtual machines configuration setting status. If the setting is set to Disabled, the adaptive application whitelisting monitoring is not enabled for the Microsoft Azure virtual machines (VMs) provisioned in the current subscription.

06 Repeat step no. 4 and 5 for each Microsoft Azure subscription available in your account.

01 Run account get-access-token command (Windows/macOS/Linux) using custom query filters to get the "Monitor Adaptive Application Controls" feature status for the current Azure account 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.adaptiveApplicationControlsMonitoringEffect.value'

02 The command output should return the adaptive application safelisting monitoring configuration status:

"Disabled"

03 Repeat step no. 1 and 2 for each Microsoft Azure subscription available in your 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 examine to access the selected subscription configuration settings.

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

06 On the selected policy assignment page, in the PARAMETERS section, select AuditIfNotExists from Monitor application whitelisting dropdown list to enable the monitoring of application safelisting in Azure Security Center, for the selected Microsoft Azure subscription.

07 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 "Monitor Adaptive Application Controls" feature becomes active for the selected Azure subscription.

08 If required, repeat steps no. 4 – 7 for other Microsoft Azure cloud subscription available.

01 Define the necessary parameters for the account get-access-token command where the adaptiveApplicationControlsMonitoringEffect configuration parameter is enabled. Save the following content to a JSON file named enable-adaptive-application-safelisting-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":{
         "adaptiveApplicationControlsMonitoringEffect":{
            "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 configuration parameters defined within the JSON document at the previous step, to enable the monitoring of application safelisting in Azure Security Center, for the selected Microsoft 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-adaptive-application-safelisting-monitoring.json"'

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

{
   "sku":{
  	"name":"A0",
  	"tier":"Free"
   },
   "properties":{
  	"displayName":"ASC Default (subscription: abcdabcd-1234-1234-1234-abcdabcdabcd)",
  	"parameters":{
     	"adaptiveApplicationControlsMonitoringEffect":{
        	"value":"AuditIfNotExists"
     	}
  	},

  	...

   },
   "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 subscription available.