Microsoft Azure Key Vault
- Miguel Lauriano
- Aparna Rr
About the Device
Azure Key Vault helps solve the following problems:
Secrets Management - Azure Key Vault can be used to Securely store and tightly control access to tokens, passwords, certificates, API keys, and other secrets
Key Management - Azure Key Vault can also be used as a Key Management solution. Azure Key Vault makes it easy to create and control the encryption keys used to encrypt your data.
Certificate Management - Azure Key Vault is also a service that lets you easily provision, manage, and deploy public and private Transport Layer Security/Secure Sockets Layer (TLS/SSL) certificates for use with Azure and your internal connected resources.
Azure Key Vault has two service tiers: Standard, which encrypts with a software key, and a Premium tier, which includes hardware security module(HSM)-protected keys.
Device Information
 Entity | Particulars |
|---|---|
Vendor Name | Microsoft Azure |
Product Name | Key Vault |
Type of Device | Cloud |
Collection Method
Log Type | Â Ingestion label | Preferred Logging Protocol - Format | Log collection method | Data Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Azure Key Vault logging | AZURE_KEYVAULT_AUDIT | Cloud Storage - JSON | CyberHub | https://cloud.google.com/chronicle/docs/reference/feed-management-api#azure_blobstore |
Device Configuration
Prerequisites
An Azure Key Vault environment (tenant) in Azure.
A user who's a Global Administrator or Key Vault Administrator.
Azure Storage Account to store the logs or an Event Hub to stream the logs.Â
Reference URLs:
How to create storage account: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-account-create?tabs=azure-portal
How to configure Event Hub: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-hubs/event-hubs-create
Configuration Steps
In the Azure portal, open Key Vaults and select the key vault to be configured for logging.
In Monitoring, click Diagnostic settings.
Select Add diagnostic setting. The Diagnostics settings page provides the settings for the diagnostic logs.
Provide Name, Select AuditEvents from Logs Categories.Â
As per customer requirement, either you can store logs in Storage Account or stream the logs to Event Hub. Adaptive MxDR supports log collection from both the options.
To configure archive to a storage account
Select Archive to a storage account as shown in below screenshot and choose an existing Subscription and Storage account.Â
Adaptive MxDR recommends a minimum of 1 day of log retention, the number can be defined based on the organization's policies.
To configure stream logs to an event hub
Select Stream to an event hub as shown in below screenshot.
Select Subscription, event hub namespace, event hub name and event hub policy name created during Event Hub as part of prerequisite.
Use below link to get credentials for Azure Storage and Azure Event HUB:
Get Credentials of Azure Storage and Azure EventHub
Integration Parameters
Parameters required from customer for Integration.
Via Azure EventHub:
Property | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
Logging Source | N/A | Select EventHub |
eventHubConnectionString | N/A | Event hub connection string |
consumerGroupName | N/A | Optional and used if consumer Group is other than default |
Account Key | Custom value | Access Key to access storage account |
Blob Container | N/A | Storage blob Container name |
Storage Account Name | Custom Value | Azure storage account name |
Subscription | N/A | Set EventHub name |
initialReadPolicy | N/A | N/A (keep default selection) |
Via Azure Storage:
Property | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
Logging Source | N/A | Select Storage |
eventHubConnectionString | N/A | N/A (keep blank) |
consumerGroupName | N/A | N/A (keep blank) |
Account Key | Custom Value | Access Key to access storage account |
Blob Container | N/A | Storage blob Container name e.g. |
Storage Account Name | Custom Value | Azure storage account name |
Subscription | N/A | Subscription ID that customer wants to be monitored |
initialReadPolicy | N/A | Select Beginning to start reading from beginning and End to start reading logs from the end |
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