Azure Connection - User Interface Components

1.0 Introduction

This article describes the user interface (UI) features of the Azure cloud connection on Fortanix Key Insight.

2.0 Terminology References

For Fortanix Key Insight - Azure concepts and supported features, refer to the Azure Connection Concepts.

3.0 Azure Connection - Overview

Users can access the Azure connection Overview page after adding an Azure cloud connection. The Overview page displays the Azure keys and services for a CSP organization based on the applied Fortanix Key Insight policy. For more information on the Fortanix Key Insight policy, refer to Cryptographic Policy Management.

NOTE

• If your Fortanix Armor account is deactivated and you are accessing the Fortanix Key Insight Azure connection, you will not be able to view data under the Overview, Assessments, Keys, Services, or PQC Central pages. You will only have access to view and delete items within the Connections, Policy Center, and Authentication pages.

• If you added an external key source during the Azure cloud connection onboarding, the Overview page will display the total key count, reflecting the correlated keys from the external key source after a successful scan.

• If the count of Azure subscriptions before the scan does not match the count of the Azure subscriptions displayed on the Overview page:

  • Verify that all required roles and permissions are correctly configured in the AWS accounts before running the scan.

  • After confirming permissions, initiate a re-scan using the RESCAN option on the Overview page. For more information, refer to Section 5.0: Rescan an Azure Connection.

• Click ASSESSMENT REPORT to navigate to the Assessment page and view the assessment report. This report allows you to assess your key security posture to ensure the safety of your data. For more information, refer to Section 4.0: Azure Connection - Assessments.

The Overview page helps users get a summary of the Azure keys and services, as described in the following sections:

3.1 Cloud Discovery Accounts

This section summarizes the discovered asset counts for an Azure connection.

It shows the count of:

• The Azure subscriptions within the Azure management group

• The resource groups under all the Azure subscriptions

• The regions in the resource groups

• The keys in all the Azure cloud regions

• The services in all the Azure cloud regions

Clicking the Keys and Services labels in the Cloud Discovery Accounts section takes you to their list view.

3.2 Cryptography Bill of Materials (CBOM)

This section describes how to export cryptographic asset metadata from Azure into a standardized CBOM JSON file. The exported CBOM format is useful for maintaining a cryptographic inventory, demonstrating regulatory compliance, and evaluating  post-quantum cryptography (PQC) readiness.

To export the CBOM data, click EXPORT. The file named bom_report_<Azure_scan_id>.json will be downloaded to your local machine, where Azure_scan_id is the unique identifier generated for each Azure connection scan.

For example,

The exported file adheres to the CycloneDX specification and includes the following components:

• bomFormat: Specifies the format of the bill of materials. For CBOM, this value is set to CycloneDX.

• specVersion: Indicates the version of the CycloneDX specification being used.

• version: Denotes the version of this specific CBOM file.

• components: Lists cryptographic components such as keys. Each entry includes details such as type, name, algorithm, associated services, and so on.

• services: Describes the Azure services that interact with the listed cryptographic components. Each service includes details such as its name and resource ID.

• dependencies: Defines the relationships between keys and services, representing how cryptographic elements are interconnected or used together.

NOTE

If your Azure connection was last scanned before the Fortanix Key Insight 25.07 release and has not been rescanned since, you must perform a Rescan to ensure the correct export of CBOM data.

For more information on how to perform a rescan, refer to Section 5.0: Rescan an Azure Connection.

3.3 Keys by Status

This section provides a summary of Azure keys categorized by their status:

• Enabled: The count of Azure keys that are enabled and are shared by multiple Azure services.

• Disabled rotation: The count of Azure keys for which the rotation is disabled.

• Not activated: The count of Azure keys that are not activated.

• Platform managed keys: These are encryption keys automatically created and managed by Microsoft Azure to provide transparent data encryption for Azure resources. Customers do not have access to these keys and cannot configure, rotate, or manage them.

  In Fortanix Key Insight, platform-managed keys are discovered and classified to support asset inventory, visibility, and audit reporting..

• Customer managed keys: These are encryption keys that are created, owned, and managed by customers using Azure Key Vault or Azure Managed HSM. Customers have full control over key lifecycle management, including defining access policies, granting permissions, scheduling key rotation, and even importing external keys.

  Fortanix Key Insight offers comprehensive visibility and governance for customer-managed keys, including usage analytics, risk scoring, rotation tracking, and compliance assessments.

Click the Keys by Status label, and each key type will go to the corresponding list view.

3.4 Keys by Type

This section displays a count of key specifications across all Azure subscriptions included in the scan. For the Azure CSP, it shows the total number of keys that are present in all the Azure cloud subscriptions based on the applied policy.

Click any key type to navigate to its corresponding list view.

3.5 Top Subscriptions by Key Count and Status

This section lists, in descending order, the top five subscriptions with the greatest number of keys since the last key scan operation. The count for each subscription includes both enabled and disabled keys.

Blue indicators represent enabled keys, while Orange indicators represent disabled keys.

Click a subscription ID to open the list view showing all keys in that subscription.

3.6 Key Vaults by Service Tier

This section provides a summary of the number of key vaults in the Azure Premium Key Vault and Azure Standard Key Vault service tiers.

Click each label or count to access its corresponding list view.

3.7 Protected Services

This section presents a summary of the comparison between the number of Microsoft managed keys, Customer managed keys, and Unencrypted services for Azure services.

• The purple color cell indicates Microsoft managed keys.

• The blue color cell indicates Customer managed keys.

• The teal blue color cell indicates Unencrypted services.

Clicking each service takes you to the respective list view.

4.0 Azure Connection - Assessments

Users can access the Fortanix Key Insight Assessment page after adding an Azure cloud subscription or management group.

The Assessment page shows:

• Key security posture details of the Azure cloud subscriptions.

• Violations that must be remediated to improve the security status.

• Remediation advice to improve the security status.

NOTE

If you added an external key source during the Azure cloud connection onboarding, the Assessment page will display the total key count, reflecting the correlated keys from the external key source after a successful scan.

4.1 Risk Score

This section provides the overall risk score of the Azure keys and services.

The following are the different risk score categories and their associated risks:

• High – A high score signifies the total number of shared keys, overly permissive (usage) keys, keys with rotation disabled, keys without expiry, and non-compliant keys in use.

• Critical – A critical risk score indicates the total number of unencrypted Azure cloud services detected that need attention.

• Medium – A medium risk score indicates the total number of CSP-generated, service encrypted with soft-deleted keys, and overly permissive (management) keys in use.

• Good – A good risk score signifies that no risks have been identified, or only minimal risks are present.  

The overall risk score is prioritized based on the number of risks, in order of severity from highest to lowest:

• Critical

• High

• Medium

• Good

Click each risk label or count to access its corresponding list view.

4.2 Service Violations

For an Azure CSP, this section provides insights into service violations across your Azure cloud environment.

You can view the total number of Azure cloud subscriptions and their associated services, along with specific violations tied to each service. These violations may result from issues such as the use of shared, deleted, or soon-to-be-deleted keys, excessive permissions, non-compliant configurations, or unencrypted keys.

This information helps you identify which services are at risk, enabling you to implement unique, compliant, and encrypted keys to strengthen your security posture.

Also,

• Risk levels for each service are color-coded for easier identification and prioritization.

• Select VIEW ALL to navigate to the Services page and explore all key-related violations for each service.

• Click any service to view a detailed list of the top 10 key violations associated with it, sorted by severity. Select any violation type to navigate to its corresponding full list.

• Click BACK to navigate to the service violations card view

4.3 Top Security Issues

This section provides the following information about the keys:

• Shared Keys: Displays the total number of keys in the Azure cloud subscription shared by two or more services for encrypting the services. Shared keys increase security risk, and this information will help you determine which keys are at risk so that you can use unique encryption keys for better security.

• Exportable Keys: Displays the number of Azure keys marked as exportable. Exportable keys are high-risk and vulnerable. This information will help in marking these high-risk keys as non-exportable.

• Services using Platform Managed Keys: These represent Azure services that automatically encrypt customer data using platform-managed encryption keys, which are fully controlled by Azure and are not accessible for customer-based configuration or lifecycle management. Encryption is applied by default and transparently. Fortanix Key Insight detects these services and associates them with their respective platform-managed keys, providing insight into Azure’s default encryption behavior.

• Unused keys: Displays the total number of Azure keys that remain unused for encryption in the scanned data and supported services. You can use this information to identify and remove unused keys for enhanced security.

  NOTE

  Fortanix Key Insight recommends removing any unused keys from your Azure cloud as a best practice.

• Expired Keys: Displays the number of keys that have passed their expiration date. This information helps you review these expired keys and delete them.

• Non-compliant keys: Displays the total number of keys in the Azure cloud subscription that are violating the cryptographic policy that is set for a Fortanix Key Insight account. This information will help you determine which keys are non-compliant with the Key Insight account's Cryptographic policy so that you can generate new keys to encrypt the Azure services.

  Any key that utilizes the following algorithm and key size combinations is considered Non-Compliant in Fortanix Key Insight, according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800-57 standard:

  • AES: Any key size less than 128 bits.

  • 3DES: Keys with sizes 112 bits and 168 bits.

  • DES: Keys with size 56 bits.

  • RSA: Keys with a size less than 2048 bits.

  • DSA: Keys with a size less than 2048 bits.

  • ECC: Keys with a size less than 224 bits.

  • HMAC: Keys with a size less than 112 bits.

  The non-compliant keys increase the data security risk. They will be flagged as vulnerabilities on the Keys page.

  Fortanix Key Insight recommends using stronger key algorithms and ensuring that the key strength aligns with your defined policies and NIST standards.

• PQC readiness: Indicates the percentage of your Azure cryptographic assets that are currently quantum-safe, showing your Azure cloud environment's preparedness for post-quantum cryptography (PQC). This percentage reflects the portion of assets using PQC-compliant algorithms or configurations. Clicking the percentage value takes you to the PQC Central page, where you can view detailed data for the corresponding Azure connection and assess the readiness of individual assets.

• Overly permissive keys [Usage]: Displays the total number of Azure keys with excessive usage permissions. These keys can potentially cause service violations and carry a high-risk score. This information helps analyze key usage to improve security.

  The overly permissive keys (usage) analyze the associated Role Assignments of a key, listing all granted service principals and corresponding Role Definitions, to determine if more than one Azure service principal can perform cryptographic operations on a key. It analyzes DataActions and NotDataActions of a corresponding  role definition to ascertain the authorization of assigned service principals for cryptographic operations.

• Overly permissive keys [Management]: Displays the total number of Azure keys with excessive management permissions. Keys with overly permissive management permissions can lead to service violations and are assigned a medium risk score. This information helps analyze key usage to enhance security.

  The overly permissive keys (management) analyze the associated Role Assignments of a key, listing all granted service principals and corresponding Role Definitions, to determine if more than two Azure service principals are authorized for management action operations. It analyzes Actions and NotActions of a corresponding  role definition to ascertain the authorization of assigned service principals for management action operations.

  NOTE

  Fortanix Key Insight recommends reviewing and revalidating the Azure key policies as a best practice to avoid overly usage and management permissions.

Click each top security issue to access its corresponding list view.

4.4 Download Assessment Report

Click DOWNLOAD REPORT on the top-right corner of the Assessment page to view the Data Security Assessment Report for the Azure subscription in PDF format. The report will open in the Print dialog box, where you can choose to print it or save it locally to your machine as needed.

5.0 Rescan an Azure Connection

Click RESCAN on the top right corner of the Overview page to perform a rescan and verify if any keys have been added, deleted, or updated in the Azure CSP organization.

If you click RESCAN and start the scan, you can monitor the progress bar while running.

After the scan is completed successfully,

• The Last scanned label will be updated with the date and time of completion.

• The Overview page will reflect the new state of the Azure CSP keys and services.

NOTE

• The RESCAN option is accessible only to users with the Account Administrator and Group Administrator roles.

• You can also click RESCAN on the top right corner of the Assessment page to perform the rescan. After the scan is completed, the Assessment page will reflect the new state of the Azure CSP keys and services.

6.0 Azure Connection - Keys

After onboarding the Azure connection, click Keys in the Fortanix Key Insight left navigation panel to access the Azure keys details.

Clicking Keys will take you to the Keys page that shows a map of all the Azure subscriptions.

On the Keys page, you can switch between the LIST and GRAPH views using toggle on the top left corner. The LIST view is selected by default.

6.1 Keys List View

The keys list view displays all keys in a table, along with details such as key name, version, state, violations, owners, usage description, specification, creation date, expiration date, rotation date, key vault, and region.

• Use the Search field to filter keys based on the available criteria and supported values.

  For example:

  • Key Id

  • Key Name

  • Key Rotation: Enabled, Disabled

• Click in the top-right corner of the table to customize which columns are displayed, beyond the default six.

• Click EXPORT to export the scanned keys data. For more information, refer to Section 8.0: Azure Connection - Scanned Data Export.

• Click in the VIOLATIONS column to view detailed information about the associated vulnerabilities.

6.1.1 Add Key Details

You can assign owners to the scanned keys to enhance key management, simplify tracking, and improve remediation workflows.

Perform the following steps to add the key(s) details:

1. Select the checkbox () next to the required key(s) in the list.

2. Click ADD DETAILS in the top right corner.

   NOTE

   If your Azure connection was last scanned before the Fortanix Key Insight 25.03 release and a new scan was not performed, clicking the ADD DETAILS option will show a Rescan Required to Add Details dialog box. To ensure your key details are correctly added, you must rescan the Azure connection and then add the key details.

   For more information on how to perform a rescan, refer to Section 5.0: Rescan an Azure Connection.

3. In the Add Details dialog box, enter the following details:

   • Primary owner: Enter the primary owner’s name or employee ID.

   • Email ID: Enter the primary owner’s valid email ID.

   • Click ADD SECONDARY OWNER to add the secondary owner’s details, if required.

   • Description (Optional): Enter an optional description.

   • Click ADD to add the ownership details to the selected key(s).

   NOTE

   To add ownership details, specifying a primary owner is mandatory before adding a secondary owner.

   On the Keys page, the primary and secondary owners’ names or employee IDs and email addresses will appear in the OWNERS column, and the description will appear in the USAGE DESCRIPTION column.

NOTE

Only users with Account Administrator permissions can add or edit key details.

6.1.5 Edit Key Details

You can modify the details of the selected key(s).

Perform the following steps to edit the key(s) details:

1. Select the checkbox () next to the required key(s) in the list.

2. Click EDIT DETAILS in the top right corner of the table.

3. In the Edit Details dialog box, update the required values.

4. Click UPDATE to apply the changes.

6.1.6 View Key Details

Click any key name in the Keys list to view its properties, rotation history, associated violations, and service mappings.

• The KEY DETAILS tab displays the key’s properties, ownership information (if provided), and automatic rotation policy details.

  If required, click EDIT DETAILS on the Ownership section to update the ownership details for the selected key.

NOTE

The Key Correlation section is visible only if an external key source (Fortanix DSM SaaS or On-Premises) has been configured for the Fortanix Key Insight Azure cloud connection. You can filter the correlated keys using the Key Correlation = Correlated attribute.

For a selected correlated key in the list, this section displays details such as the key source, key source type, last correlated date, and source key ID. Click the Key ID to navigate to Fortanix DSM SaaS and view the key details.

• The VIOLATIONS tab displays the violations associated with the key.

• The SERVICE MAPPING tab displays the mapping between the key and Azure service(s), if any. You can view the details of the key and its associated services through Legends.

6.2 Keys Graph View

The graph view shows the following information:

• For every Azure subscription, it shows the Azure Key Vault names and resource groups that it belongs to, and for each Key Vault, it shows the map of all the keys in that account that are used to encrypt the Azure services.

• Each key displays the services encrypted by it.

• If a key is used by more than one Azure service, is non-compliant, and has over-usage or management permissions, then it shows a vulnerability warning. Key Insight recommends proceeding with the appropriate action items to minimize those warnings.

• The keys display the non-compliance vulnerabilities based on the configured key sizes and types, per the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) standards specified in the applied Key Insight policy.

  

• Click various points in the key map to go to the tabular view of that entity. For example, click the key vault icon ) for the Azure subscription to go to the tabular view of the key vault.

• Filter the keys by Subscriptions, Resource group name, Key name, Key version, Vulnerabilities, and Services on the key map.

  Perform the following steps to apply the filter on the key graph:

  1. Click the Services drop down to select or search keys by a service. For example, select SQL.

  2. Click SEARCH. You will see that the key map displays only the keys that encrypt the SQL.

7.0 Azure Connection - Services

After onboarding an Azure connection, click Services to navigate to the Services page, which shows a map of all the Azure services (Azure Storage Accounts, Managed Disks, SQL, AKS, ACI, ABS, and Cosmos DB grouped by the Azure subscription.

NOTE

Fortanix Key Insight currently supports scanning all Azure Cosmos DB cloud resources, if they are "single deployments". For clustered variants, it supports scanning only the Cosmos DB for MongoDB cluster.

On the Services page, you can switch between the LIST and GRAPH views using toggle on the top left corner. The LIST view is selected by default.

7.1 Services List View

The services list view displays all services in a table, along with details such as name, type, encryption, violations, resource group, region, and subscription.

• Click ENCRYPTION column values to check whether the service was encrypted.

• Click in the VIOLATIONS column to view detailed information about the associated vulnerabilities.

• Use the Search field to filter services based on the available criteria and supported values.

  For example:

  • Subscription

  • Subscription ID

  • Encryption: Encrypted, Unencrypted

• Click EXPORT to export the scanned services data. For more information, refer to Section 8.0: Azure Connection - Scanned Data Export.

7.1.1 View Service Details

You can click any Azure service name in the Services list to view its configuration details and associated violations.

• The SERVICE DETAILS tab displays the service configurations and associated keys data.

NOTE

The Key Correlation section is visible only when the selected service is encrypted and associated with a correlated key from an external key source connection. You can filter the correlated data using Name attribute. This section displays details such as the key source, key source type, last correlated date, and source key ID. Click Key Id to navigate to Fortanix DSM SaaS to view the corresponding key details.

• The VIOLATIONS tab displays the violations associated with the service.

7.2 Services Graph View

In the services graph view, the services are grouped into the following categories, and you can also view the total counts for services, violations, subscriptions, and regions within each category:

• Service Type: Selecting this category allows you to view all services grouped by type and their corresponding risk levels. The color of each service indicates its associated risk level. This category is selected by default.

  

  Click any service to view the types of violations for that service and the count for each violation, sorted by severity, if applicable.  

  • Clicking a specific violation in the list will take you to the corresponding service list view, filtered accordingly.  

  

• Violation Type: Selecting this category allows you to view all services grouped by violation type, along with their corresponding risk levels.

  

  Click any violation to view the types of services that share the violation and the count for each service type, if applicable.  

  • Clicking a specific service type in the list will take you to the corresponding service list view, filtered accordingly.

  

• Subscriptions and Regions: Selecting this category allows you to view all services grouped by different subscriptions and regions, along with their associated risk levels.

  

  Click any subscription and region to view the associated resource groups and services that share the same subscription and region.

  • Click any resource group to view each service's regions and service count, if applicable.

    • Click any service to view the types of violations and the count for each violation, sorted by severity, if applicable.

      • Click a specific service type in the list will take you to the corresponding service list view, filtered accordingly.

  

You can filter the services by Subscription, Resource Group, Region, Service Type, and Vulnerability for each category explained in Section 7.2: Services Graph View.

For example, to filter services by Region,

1. Select the Group by: category. For example, Service Type.

2. Click the Region drop down to select the region. For example, east-us.

3. Click APPLY.

The Services page will display only the services for the selected region. Additionally, the count for the total number of services, violations, regions, and accounts shown in the top bar will be updated accordingly.

Click RESET to clear all filters or select the All (Default) option from the dropdown in the desired filter to reset that specific filter.

8.0 Azure Connection - Scanned Data Export

This feature allows you to export the Azure scanned key and service-related data from Fortanix Key Insight in Comma-Separated Values (CSV) format. Also, it provides flexibility, enabling you to download data for detailed analysis, audits, or reporting, and to access real-time status.

In the Azure Keys and Services list view, click EXPORT to export the scanned data using any of the available options:

• Export current page: Use this option to export all column data from the current page in CSV format.

  NOTE

  You can download a maximum of 100 items at a time, based on the settings specified in the Items per page drop down.

• Export all raw data: Use this option to export all scanned data shown in the keys and services tables in CSV format. If you select this option, you can read the details on the Export All Raw Data dialog box and click PROCEED to export all the data.

  After the export process begins, you can track its progress. The export status will be logged with a message under the Activities tab in Fortanix Key Insight. For more information, refer to Section 8.1: View Export Activities.

• Export selected rows: This option is disabled by default. You can select the checkbox () next to the required rows on the current page and export them in CSV format using this option.

NOTE

• Users with the Account Administrator and Group Administrator roles can only perform the scanned data export.

• Within the same account, you can have multiple exports running simultaneously from different cloud, on-premises, and external key source connections.

8.1 View Export Activities

After you initiate the export process using Export All Raw Data, you can track the export status in the Activities tab located in the left navigation panel of Fortanix Key Insight.

You can view the following details for each export:

• Name of the activity. For example, the activity would be named Export_all_keys_vaults if you had exported all the Azure keys.

• Name of the file. For example, Azure Keys.csv.

• Activity status: This indicates the current state of the data export. This can be,

  • Completed: The data export has been successful, and the CSV file will automatically download to the location specified on your local machine.

  • In Progress: The data export is in progress, and you can cancel it using if required.

  • Cancelled: The data export has been canceled due to switching accounts or manually canceling it while it was in progress.

  • Failed: The data export was not completed and failed due to errors.

• Name of the connection

• Export creation date and time

NOTE

• If you switch to a different account during export, the export will be cancelled and logged in the Activities tab.

• If you navigate to a different solution (for example, Identity and Access Management), the export will continue, but no logs will appear in the Activities tab. The export status will be confirmed using a toast message.

• If you refresh the web page during the export, the confirmation dialog box will appear. If you refresh, the export will be cancelled, and all entries in the Activities tab will be removed. Therefore, it is recommended not to refresh the page during the export.