Adding a regulatory compliance standard

Microsoft Defender for Cloud assigns the Azure Security Benchmark regulatory compliance standard as default with every subscription. You can add a regulatory standard initiative to Azure subscriptions from the growing list of supported regulatory standards.

In this recipe, you will learn to add a regulatory compliance standard to an Azure subscription.

Getting ready

Open a web browser and navigate to https://portal.azure.com.

How to do it…

To add a regulatory compliance standard to Microsoft Defender for Cloud, complete the following steps:

1. In the Azure portal, open Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
2. On the left menu, click Environment settings.
3. On the Environment settings blade on the right, select a subscription to open the Settings blade.
4. On the left menu, click on Security policy.
5. Security policy contains three sections – Default initiative, Industry & regulatory standards, and Your custom...