Cassandra cluster should use password authentication

High Azure General cassandraclusters-cassandra-cluster-password-authe

Applies to

Microsoft.DocumentDB/cassandraClusters

What CGPulse checks

A resource passes this rule when authenticationMethod must equal Cassandra. Anything else is reported as a finding with the evaluated property value attached as evidence.

How to fix it

Configure Cassandra authentication to enforce access control for all client connections. In AWS Console: Keyspaces > configure authentication settings. See: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/keyspaces/latest/devguide/authentication.html

CLI

az managed-cassandra cluster update --ids "{id}" --authentication-method Cassandra

Terraform

resource "azurerm_cosmosdb_cassandra_cluster" "{name}" {
  name                          = "{name}"
  resource_group_name           = "{rg}"
  location                      = var.location
  delegated_management_subnet_id = "/subscriptions/{sub}/resourceGroups/{rg}/providers/Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/{vnet}/subnets/{subnet}"
  default_admin_password        = "changeme"
  authentication_method         = "Cassandra"
}

Compliance frameworks

Cloud Security: Azure Foundations

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