Enable DDoS Protection Standard Monitoring for Public Virtual Networks

01 Sign in to Azure Management Console.

02 Navigate to Azure Security Center blade at https://portal.azure.com/#blade/Microsoft_Azure_Security/SecurityMenuBlade/.

03 In the navigation panel, choose Security policy to access Policy Management portal.

04 On the Policy Management page, click on the name of the subscription that you want to examine to access the policy configuration settings for the selected subscription.

05 On the Security Policy page, choose the Security center default policy, then click View effective policy button.

06 On the default security policy page, within the Network section, check the DDoS Protection Standard should be enabled setting status. If the configuration setting is Disabled, the Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) protection monitoring is not enabled for the Azure public virtual networks available in the selected subscription.

07 Repeat step no. 4 – 6 for each Microsoft Azure subscription available within your account.

01 Run account get-access-token command (Windows/macOS/Linux) using custom query filters to describe the monitoring status of the "DDoS Protection Standard" feature within the current subscription:

az account get-access-token
	--query "{subscription:subscription,accessToken:accessToken}"
	--out tsv | xargs -L1 bash -c 'curl -X GET -H "Authorization: Bearer $1" -H "Content-Type: application/json" https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/$0/providers/Microsoft.Authorization/policyAssignments/SecurityCenterBuiltIn?api-version=2018-05-01' | jq 'select(.name=="SecurityCenterBuiltIn")'|jq '.properties.parameters.vnetEnableDDoSProtectionMonitoringEffect.value'

02 The command output should return the requested Azure Security Center monitoring status:

"Disabled"

03 Repeat step no. 1 and 2 for each Microsoft Azure subscription available in your account.

01 Sign in to Azure Management Console.

02 Navigate to Azure Security Center blade at https://portal.azure.com/#blade/Microsoft_Azure_Security/SecurityMenuBlade/.

03 In the navigation panel, choose Security policy to access Policy Management portal.

04 On the Policy Management page, click on the name of the subscription that you want to reconfigure to access the policy settings available for the selected subscription.

05 On the Security Policy page, click on the ASC Default (subscription: <azure-subscription-id>) link to edit the default policy assignment.

06 On the selected policy assignment page, perform the following commands:

1. Choose the Parameters tab to access the policy parameters.
2. Select AuditIfNotExists from DDoS Protection Standard should be enabled dropdown list to enable the Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) protection monitoring for all your Azure public virtual networks available in the selected subscription.
3. Click Review + save to review the configuration changes, then click Save to apply the changes. If successful, the following message should be displayed: "Updating policy assignment succeeded". Once the configuration changes are saved, the DDoS protection monitoring for public virtual networks becomes active for the selected Azure subscription.

07 If required, repeat steps no. 4 – 6 for other Microsoft Azure cloud subscriptions available.

01 Define the necessary specifications for the account get-access-token command, where the vnetEnableDDoSProtectionMonitoringEffect configuration parameter is enabled using the "AuditIfNotExists" flag. Save the following content to a JSON file named enable-ddos-protection-monitoring.json and replace the highlighted details, i.e. <azure-subscription-id> and <policy-definition-id>, with your own Azure account details:

{
   "properties":{
      "displayName":"ASC Default (subscription: <azure-subscription-id>)",
      "policyDefinitionId":"/providers/Microsoft.Authorization/policySetDefinitions/<policy-definition-id>",
      "scope":"/subscriptions/<azure-subscription-id>",
      "parameters":{
         "vnetEnableDDoSProtectionMonitoringEffect":{
            "value":"AuditIfNotExists"
         }
      }
   },
   "id":"/subscriptions/<azure-subscription-id>/providers/Microsoft.Authorization/policyAssignments/SecurityCenterBuiltIn",
   "type":"Microsoft.Authorization/policyAssignments",
   "name":"SecurityCenterBuiltIn",
   "location":"eastus"
}

02 Run account get-access-token command (Windows/macOS/Linux) using the specifications defined at the previous step (i.e. enable-ddos-protection-monitoring.json file) to enable DDoS protection monitoring for all Microsoft Azure public virtual networks available within the current subscription:

az account get-access-token
	--query "{subscription:subscription,accessToken:accessToken}"
	--out tsv | xargs -L1 bash -c 'curl -X PUT -H "Authorization: Bearer $1" -H "Content-Type: application/json" https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/$0/providers/Microsoft.Authorization/policyAssignments/SecurityCenterBuiltIn?api-version=2018-05-01 -d@"enable-ddos-protection-monitoring.json"'

03 If successful, the command output should return the updated Azure Security Center policy, e.g.:

{
   "sku":{
      "name":"A0",
      "tier":"Free"
   },
   "properties":{
      "displayName":"ASC Default (subscription: abcdabcd-1234-1234-1234-abcdabcdabcd)",
      "policyDefinitionId":"/providers/Microsoft.Authorization/policySetDefinitions/abcd1234-abcd-1234-abcd-1234abcd1234",
      "scope":"/subscriptions/abcdabcd-1234-1234-1234-abcdabcdabcd",
      "parameters":{
         "vnetEnableDDoSProtectionMonitoringEffect":{
            "value":"AuditIfNotExists"
         }
      },
      "metadata":{
         "createdBy":"1234abcd-1234-abcd-1234-abcd1234abcd",
         "createdOn":"2019-05-17T15:38:40.00000000",
         "updatedBy":"abcd1234-abcd-1234-abcd-1234abcd1234",
         "updatedOn":"2020-03-17T13:06:48.00000000"
      }
   },
   "id":"/subscriptions/abcdabcd-1234-1234-1234-abcdabcdabcd/providers/Microsoft.Authorization/policyAssignments/SecurityCenterBuiltIn",
   "type":"Microsoft.Authorization/policyAssignments",
   "name":"SecurityCenterBuiltIn",
   "location":"eastus"
}

04 If required, repeat steps no. 1 – 3 for other Microsoft Azure cloud subscriptions available.