Abs07act Microsoft Azure Portal already gives a capability to receive an email alert when new Azure Network Security Group  (NSG) is added or existing is deleted. However there is no option today to receive an email when individual NSG security rules are added, deleted or modified. This post will provide the solution to receive emails on Azure NSG security rules changes which isn’t offered by Azure Portal. Why do I need it? If you are chief security officer of the company, then you definitely understand why do you care to receive an alert when NSG rules are changed. NSG’s are fundamental to res07ict/ allow access in Azure IaaS VM deployments. They offer con07olled access using source and destination port, protocol and IP. So as a security best practice any Azure VM (Network Interface Card) NIC or Subnet in VNET should have NSG associated to it. Having said that, maintaining rules in NSG is critical. Hence many times Azure portal adminis07ators, CISO staff, IT head, Se...