Azure Account onboarding¶
In this section we can find the steps to onboard an Azure cloud account to the AccuKnox SaaS platform
Rapid Onboarding (via Azure)¶
For Azure Onboarding it is required to register an App and giving Security read access to that App from the Azure portal.
Step 1: Go to your Azure Portal and search for App registrations and open it
Step 2: Here click on New registration
Step 3: Give your application a name, remember this name as it will be used again later, For the rest keep the default settings
Step 4: Now your application is created, save Application ID and Directory ID as they will be needed to for onboarding on AccuKnox Saas and then click on ‘Add a certificate or secret’
Step 5: Click on new client secret and enter the name and expiration date to get secret id and secret value, save this secret value as this will also be needed for onboarding.
Step 6: Next, go to API permissions tab and click on 'Add permission'
Step 7: On the screen that appears, click on 'Microsoft Graph'
Step 8: Next, select Application Permissions and then search for Directory.Read.All and click on Add permissions
Step 9: Select ‘Grant Admin Consent’ for Default Directory and click on ‘Yes’
Step 10: Now we need to give Security read permissions to this registered Application , to do that go to subscriptions
Step 11: First save the subscription ID and click on the subscription name , here it is “Microsoft Azure Sponsorship“
Step 12: Navigate to Access control(IAM) and go to Roles , here select Add and Add role assignment
Step 13: Search for “Security Reader” Job function Role, select it and press next
Step 14: In the member section click on Select members it will open a dropdown menu on the right hand side
Step 15: Here search for the Application that you registered in the beginning , select the application and click on review and assign.
Step 16: Similarly, we have to add another role. This time, search for Log Analytics Reader. Select it and click next
Step 17: Now, click on Select members, select the application that was created similar to the previous role. Finally, click on Review and Assign.
From AccuKnox SaaS UI¶
Configuring your Azure cloud account is complete, now we need to onboard the cloud account onto AccuKnox Saas Platform.
Step 1: Go to settings→ Cloud Account and click on Add Account
Step 2: Select Microsoft Azure as Cloud Account Type
Step 3: Select or create label and Tags that will be associated with this Cloud Account
Step 4: Enter the details that we saved earlier during the steps for app registration and subscription id from subscriptions in azure portal and click on connect
Step 5: After successfully connecting your cloud account will show up in the list
