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

NS-8 Detect and disable insecure services and protocols

Detect insecure services and protocols at operating system, application and package layers and disable them, applying compensating controls where they cannot be disabled.

Source: Azure Security Benchmark v3 (renamed Microsoft cloud security benchmark), NS-8. 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
Vulnerability scanner / patch tooling
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

  • Scan results listing insecure services and protocols detected · Vulnerability scanner / patch tooling
  • Re-scan evidence confirming remediation · Vulnerability scanner / patch tooling

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

none for this control

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

  • Disablement records or hardening baseline entries · Policy repository / GRC workspace
  • Compensating control register for exceptions with expiry dates · Policy repository / GRC workspace

First move

Automate the pull from your Vulnerability scanner / patch tooling. Scan schedule, findings and remediation age straight from the scanner; patch compliance from the patch console.

Common gaps auditors find

Do this for your whole sheet

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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