Key Vault must have soft delete and purge protection for contingency planning

High Azure General keyvault-soft-delete

Applies to

Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults

What CGPulse checks

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

How to fix it

Enable soft delete to allow recovery of accidentally deleted keys, secrets, and certificates. In Azure Portal: Key Vault > Properties > enable Soft-delete. See: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/key-vault/general/soft-delete-overview

CLI

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

Terraform

resource "azurerm_key_vault" "{name}" {
  soft_delete_retention_days = 90
  purge_protection_enabled   = true
}

Compliance frameworks

HIPAA: Health Information Protection164.308(a)(7)

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