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Microsoft Defender for Open-Source Relational Databases should be enabled

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Description

Microsoft Defender for open-source relational databases extends threat detection to Azure Database for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB, alerting on brute force, SQL injection, and unusual access patterns. Enabling this plan at the Standard tier ensures these workloads receive runtime monitoring.

Remediation

See Protect your databases with Defender for Databases for step-by-step instructions on enabling the open-source relational databases plan.