Assessments Metadata - Get

Reference

Service:: Defender for Cloud

API Version:: 2020-01-01

Get metadata information on an assessment type

GET https://management.azure.com/providers/Microsoft.Security/assessmentMetadata/{assessmentMetadataName}?api-version=2020-01-01

URI Parameters

Name	In	Required	Type	Description
assessmentMetadataName	path	True	string	The Assessment Key - Unique key for the assessment type
api-version	query	True	string	API version for the operation

Responses

Name	Type	Description
200 OK	SecurityAssessmentMetadata	OK
Other Status Codes	CloudError	Error response describing why the operation failed.

Security

azure_auth

Azure Active Directory OAuth2 Flow

Type: oauth2
Flow: implicit
Authorization URL: https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/authorize

Scopes

Name	Description
user_impersonation	impersonate your user account

Examples

Get security assessment metadata

Sample Request

HTTP

GET https://management.azure.com/providers/Microsoft.Security/assessmentMetadata/21300918-b2e3-0346-785f-c77ff57d243b?api-version=2020-01-01

Sample Response

Status code:: 200

{
  "id": "/providers/Microsoft.Security/assessmentMetadata/21300918-b2e3-0346-785f-c77ff57d243b",
  "name": "21300918-b2e3-0346-785f-c77ff57d243b",
  "type": "Microsoft.Security/assessmentMetadata",
  "properties": {
    "displayName": "Install endpoint protection solution on virtual machine scale sets",
    "policyDefinitionId": "/providers/Microsoft.Authorization/policyDefinitions/26a828e1-e88f-464e-bbb3-c134a282b9de",
    "description": "Install an endpoint protection solution on your virtual machines scale sets, to protect them from threats and vulnerabilities.",
    "remediationDescription": "To install an endpoint protection solution: 1.  <a href=\"https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-machine-scale-sets/virtual-machine-scale-sets-faq#how-do-i-turn-on-antimalware-in-my-virtual-machine-scale-set\">Follow the instructions in How do I turn on antimalware in my virtual machine scale set</a>",
    "categories": [
      "Compute"
    ],
    "severity": "Medium",
    "userImpact": "Low",
    "implementationEffort": "Low",
    "threats": [
      "dataExfiltration",
      "dataSpillage",
      "maliciousInsider"
    ],
    "assessmentType": "BuiltIn"
  }
}

Definitions

Name	Description
assessmentType	BuiltIn if the assessment based on built-in Azure Policy definition, Custom if the assessment based on custom Azure Policy definition
categories
CloudError	Common error response for all Azure Resource Manager APIs to return error details for failed operations. (This also follows the OData error response format.).
CloudErrorBody	The error detail.
ErrorAdditionalInfo	The resource management error additional info.
implementationEffort	The implementation effort required to remediate this assessment
SecurityAssessmentMetadata	Security assessment metadata
SecurityAssessmentMetadataPartnerData	Describes the partner that created the assessment
severity	The severity level of the assessment
threats
userImpact	The user impact of the assessment

assessmentType

BuiltIn if the assessment based on built-in Azure Policy definition, Custom if the assessment based on custom Azure Policy definition

Name	Type	Description
BuiltIn	string	Microsoft Defender for Cloud managed assessments
CustomPolicy	string	User defined policies that are automatically ingested from Azure Policy to Microsoft Defender for Cloud
CustomerManaged	string	User assessments pushed directly by the user or other third party to Microsoft Defender for Cloud
VerifiedPartner	string	An assessment that was created by a verified 3rd party if the user connected it to ASC

Name	Type	Description
Compute	string
Data	string
IdentityAndAccess	string
IoT	string
Networking	string

CloudError

Common error response for all Azure Resource Manager APIs to return error details for failed operations. (This also follows the OData error response format.).

Name	Type	Description
error.additionalInfo	ErrorAdditionalInfo[]	The error additional info.
error.code	string	The error code.
error.details	CloudErrorBody[]	The error details.
error.message	string	The error message.
error.target	string	The error target.

CloudErrorBody

The error detail.

Name	Type	Description
additionalInfo	ErrorAdditionalInfo[]	The error additional info.
code	string	The error code.
details	CloudErrorBody[]	The error details.
message	string	The error message.
target	string	The error target.

ErrorAdditionalInfo

The resource management error additional info.

Name	Type	Description
info	object	The additional info.
type	string	The additional info type.

implementationEffort

The implementation effort required to remediate this assessment

Name	Type	Description
High	string
Low	string
Moderate	string

SecurityAssessmentMetadata

Security assessment metadata

Name	Type	Description
id	string	Resource Id
name	string	Resource name
properties.assessmentType	assessmentType	BuiltIn if the assessment based on built-in Azure Policy definition, Custom if the assessment based on custom Azure Policy definition
properties.categories	categories[]	The categories of resource that is at risk when the assessment is unhealthy
properties.description	string	Human readable description of the assessment
properties.displayName	string	User friendly display name of the assessment
properties.implementationEffort	implementationEffort	The implementation effort required to remediate this assessment
properties.partnerData	SecurityAssessmentMetadataPartnerData	Describes the partner that created the assessment
properties.policyDefinitionId	string	Azure resource ID of the policy definition that turns this assessment calculation on
properties.preview	boolean	True if this assessment is in preview release status
properties.remediationDescription	string	Human readable description of what you should do to mitigate this security issue
properties.severity	severity	The severity level of the assessment
properties.threats	threats[]	Threats impact of the assessment
properties.userImpact	userImpact	The user impact of the assessment
type	string	Resource type

SecurityAssessmentMetadataPartnerData

Describes the partner that created the assessment

Name	Type	Description
partnerName	string	Name of the company of the partner
productName	string	Name of the product of the partner that created the assessment
secret	string	Secret to authenticate the partner and verify it created the assessment - write only

severity

The severity level of the assessment

Name	Type	Description
High	string
Low	string
Medium	string

threats

Name	Type	Description
accountBreach	string
dataExfiltration	string
dataSpillage	string
denialOfService	string
elevationOfPrivilege	string
maliciousInsider	string
missingCoverage	string
threatResistance	string

userImpact

The user impact of the assessment

Name	Type	Description
High	string
Low	string
Moderate	string