The Azure Cloud Security Pentesting Skills You NEED!
Cloud Security Podcast28 Elo 2023

The Azure Cloud Security Pentesting Skills You NEED!

Karl Fosaaen, the author of Penetration Testing "Azure for Ethical Hacker" and the VP of Research at NetSPI, came as a guest to share why the penetration Test of a Web Application hosted on Azure Cloud in 2023 is quite different to just a simple/traditional web app pentesting and the skills you need to pentest Azure environments. Cloud Penetration testing is misunderstood to be just config review in Microsoft Azure Cloud just like in AWS and Google Cloud. In this video, we have Karl Fosaaen was kind enough to answer the following questions and methods.


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Spotify TimeStamp for Interview Question

(00:00) Introduction

(02:32) A bit about Karl Fosaaen

(03:26) How is pentesting in Azure different from AWS?

(04:35) Cloud pentesting is not just config review

(05:42) Cloud pentesting vs Network pentesting

(06:25) Cloud Pentest - Next evolution of Network Pentest?

(07:14) Boundaries of cloud pentesting

(09:07) Do you need prior approval for Azure Pentest?

(09:32) Working with Microsoft Security Research Centre

(10:35) Process of pentesting in Azure

(11:57) Low hanging fruits to start off with!

(13:37) How to persist and escalate?

(14:58) Managed Identities in Azure

(16:23) Impact of peripheral services to Azure

(18:33) Scale of deployments in Azure

(21:02) Getting access to permissions for Azure Entra

(22:36) Scaling your pentest tools

(23:34) TTPs or Matrix you can use

(25:30) Getting into Azure Pentesting

(26:56) Transitioning from network to azure pentesting

(28:37) Connect with Karl


Resources:

The NetSPI Blog to learn more about offensive cloud security

Mitre - Cloud Attack Matrix

ATRM

Karl's Book - Penetration Testing Azure for Ethical Hackers: Develop practical skills to perform pentesting and risk assessment of Microsoft Azure environments

See you at the next episode!

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