EvidenceSheet
Azure Security Benchmark v3 (renamed Microsoft cloud security benchmark) · Endpoint Security

ES-1 Use Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

Deploy Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on Azure VMs with continuous monitoring, alerting, and automated response.

Source: Azure Security Benchmark v3 (renamed Microsoft cloud security benchmark), ES-1. The statement above is our statement of the clause, read from the published text and cited so you can check it against the official text, not the instrument verbatim. Open Azure Security Benchmark v3 (renamed Microsoft cloud security benchmark) in the compliance library.

4
artefacts
2
held by a system
0
at each review
easy
to go live
Endpoint management (MDM / EDR)
where the evidence lives
teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review. To go live: easy when half or more of the artefacts are already held by a system, moderate from a quarter to a half, hard below a quarter.

These are the artefacts auditors commonly ask for on this requirement, our guidance rather than text from the standard. Your assessor decides what is sufficient in your context, and asks for samples across the period when a report covers one.

system holds itEvidence a system already holds

  • EDR coverage report · Endpoint management (MDM / EDR)
  • Alert response statistics · Endpoint management (MDM / EDR)

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

none for this control

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

  • Onboarding script · Policy repository / GRC workspace
  • Tamper protection enabled · Policy repository / GRC workspace

First move

Automate the pull from your Endpoint management (MDM / EDR). Device compliance report from the MDM (encryption, EDR agent, OS version) on a daily pull.

Common gaps auditors find

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Paste the rows you run your controls from and get this mapping for every control at once, with the periodic-review ones flagged and a first move per row. No account for the first run.

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