Guidance for Azure Policy — enforcing and auditing governance and security guardrails at scale across Azure with definitions, initiatives, assignments, and remediation tasks. Covers effects (Audit, Deny, Append, Modify, DeployIfNotExists, AuditIfNotExists), management group inheritance, audit-first rollout, parameterised reusable policies, and exclusion discipline. Powers Defender for Cloud regulatory compliance. WHEN: Azure Policy, governance guardrails, enforce compliance, policy initiative, deny resource, audit configuration, remediation task, deployIfNotExists, management group policy, security baseline enforcement, MCSB initiative, regulatory compliance Azure. DO NOT USE for resource RBAC role choice (use azure-role-selector), Defender posture only (use defender-for-cloud-hardening), or Bicep / IaC templating.
$npx -y skills add vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-skills --skill azure-policyInstalls into the current project.
Run `npx skills use "https://github.com/vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-skills" --skill "vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-skills/azure-policy"` and follow the generated skill instructions now. Read its complete output, redirecting it to a temporary file first if necessary. Resolve relative paths from the supporting-files directory it provides.
Use the skills in "https://github.com/vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-skills" that are relevant to the current task. Run `npx skills add "https://github.com/vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-skills"` and select the relevant skills, then follow their instructions.