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Subscriptions should have a contact email address for security issues

To ensure the relevant people in your organization are notified when there is a potential security breach in one of your subscriptions, set a security contact to receive email notifications from Security Center.

What this control checks

Subscriptions should have a contact email address for security issues

Framework mappings

The clauses this control is mapped to in each framework.

NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5

  • IR-4 Incident Handling
  • IR-5 Incident Monitoring
  • IR-6(2) Vulnerabilities Related to Incidents
  • SI-4(12) Automated Organization-Generated Alerts

NIST Cybersecurity Framework v2.0

  • DE.AE-02: Potentially adverse events are analyzed to better understand associated activities.
  • RC.CO-03
  • RS.MA-01

FedRAMP Moderate Baseline Rev 4

  • IR-4 Incident Handling
  • IR-5 Incident Monitoring

NIST SP 800-171 Rev 2

  • 3.6.2 Track, document, and report incidents to designated officials and/or authorities both internal and external to the organization
  • 3.14.3 Monitor system security alerts and advisories and take action in response
  • 3.14.6 Monitor organizational systems, including inbound and outbound communications traffic, to detect attacks and indicators of potential attacks

RBI IT Framework for NBFCs

  • 1 IT Governance
  • 3.1.c Role based Access Control
  • 3.1.f Maker-checker

CMMC 2.0 Level 2

  • IR.L2-3.6.2 Track, document, and report incidents to designated officials and/or authorities both internal and external to the organization
  • SI.L2-3.14.3 Monitor system security alerts and advisories and take action in response
  • SI.L2-3.14.6 Monitor organizational systems, including inbound and outbound communications traffic, to detect attacks and indicators of potential attacks

FedRAMP High

  • IR-4 Incident Handling
  • IR-5 Incident Monitoring

Tool mappings

Use these identifiers to cross-reference this control across tools, reports, and evidence.

  • Compliance.tf Control: securitycenter_email_configured
  • Powerpipe Controls: azure_compliance.control.securitycenter_additional_email_configured, azure_compliance.control.securitycenter_email_configured
  • Azure Policy Definition: 4f4f78b8-e367-4b10-a341-d9a4ad5cf1c7

Last reviewed: 2026-10-15

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