Key Vault must enable purge protection

High Azure General keyvault-purge-protection

Applies to

Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults

What CGPulse checks

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

How to fix it

Enable purge protection to prevent permanent deletion of soft-deleted items before retention ends. In Azure Portal: Key Vault > Properties > enable Purge protection. See: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/key-vault/general/soft-delete-overview

CLI

az keyvault update --ids "{id}" --enable-purge-protection true

Terraform

resource "azurerm_key_vault" "{name}" {
  name                       = "{name}"
  resource_group_name        = "{rg}"
  location                   = var.location
  tenant_id                  = data.azurerm_client_config.current.tenant_id
  sku_name                   = "standard"
  purge_protection_enabled   = true
  soft_delete_retention_days = 90
}

Compliance frameworks

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