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

NS-2 Secure cloud services with network controls

Use Private Endpoints, Service Endpoints, and firewall rules to restrict access to PaaS services from authorised networks only.

Source: Azure Security Benchmark v3 (renamed Microsoft cloud security benchmark), NS-2. 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
3
held by a system
1
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

  • Private Endpoint inventory · Endpoint management (MDM / EDR)
  • Storage account firewall configuration · Identity provider / directory
  • SQL firewall rules · Cloud console / configuration management

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

  • Public access disabled evidence · Cloud console / configuration management

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

none for this control

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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NS-1 Establish network segmentation boundaries · NS-3 Deploy firewall at the edge of enterprise network