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

NS-6 Deploy web application firewall

Deploy a web application firewall in front of web applications and APIs and configure rules appropriate to the application-layer attacks those endpoints face.

Source: Azure Security Benchmark v3 (renamed Microsoft cloud security benchmark), NS-6. 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
1
held by a system
1
at each review
moderate
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

  • WAF deployment inventory covering all public web and API endpoints · Endpoint management (MDM / EDR)

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

  • Record of rules moved from detection to prevention mode · Document repository

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

  • Rule set and managed rule version in use · Document repository
  • Tuning and exclusion register · Policy repository / GRC workspace

First move

Start with the 1 of 4 artefacts that already live in a system (Endpoint management (MDM / EDR)); keep the periodic reviews but log each one as a dated record with a named reviewer.

Common gaps auditors find

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