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Microsoft Azure SQL Database Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • Azure SQL Database must enforce approved authorizations for logical access to database information and system resources in accordance with applicable access control policies.

    Enterprise environments make account management for applications and databases challenging and complex. A manual process for account management functions adds the risk of a potential oversight or o...
    Rule High Severity
  • Database objects (including but not limited to tables, indexes, storage, stored procedures, functions, triggers, links to software external to Azure SQL Database, etc.) must be owned by database/Azure SQL Database principals authorized for ownership.

    Within the database, object ownership implies full privileges to the owned object, including the privilege to assign access to the owned objects to other subjects. Database functions and procedures...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The role(s)/group(s) used to modify database structure (including but not necessarily limited to tables, indexes, storage, etc.) and logic modules (stored procedures, functions, triggers, links to software external to Azure SQL Database, etc.) must be restricted to authorized users.

    If the Azure SQL Database were to allow any user to make changes to database structure or logic, then those changes might be implemented without undergoing the appropriate testing and approvals tha...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Azure SQL Database contents must be protected from unauthorized and unintended information transfer by enforcement of a data-transfer policy.

    Applications, including DBMSs, must prevent unauthorized and unintended information transfer via shared system resources. Data used for the development and testing of applications often involves c...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Azure SQL Database must check the validity of all data inputs except those specifically identified by the organization.

    Invalid user input occurs when a user inserts data or characters into an application's data entry fields and the application is unprepared to process that data. This results in unanticipated applic...
    Rule Medium Severity

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