Cloud Penetration Testing (Azure)
Cloud misconfigurations don't look like traditional vulnerabilities — they're a chain of "acceptable" role assignments that add up to full tenant compromise. AZ-500 certified testing of Entra ID, RBAC, and the identity plane attackers actually target.
What's included
- Entra ID (Azure AD) configuration review
- Azure RBAC privilege-escalation mapping
- Storage account & blob exposure testing
- Service principal & managed identity abuse
- Defender for Cloud gap analysis
- Network security group review
Deliverables
- Executive summary for leadership
- Technical report, CVSS-rated findings
- Privilege-escalation path evidence
- Prioritised remediation roadmap
- Live debrief walkthrough
Timeline
3–7 business days, depending on tenant size and subscription count.
Why cloud identity is the real attack surface
In Azure, the perimeter isn't a firewall — it's identity. A guest account with an over-scoped role assignment, a service principal with more permissions than its automation actually needs, or a managed identity attached to a resource with a weak access policy are all individually "acceptable" until they're chained together into a path from low-privilege access to Global Administrator or subscription Owner. That's the attack surface this engagement is built to find.
Methodology
Review of Entra ID configuration and conditional access policies, mapping of RBAC role assignments for privilege-escalation chains, testing storage accounts and blob containers for public or misconfigured access, reviewing service principal and managed identity permission scope, and validating whether Defender for Cloud is actually catching the techniques used during testing — since a security tool that doesn't detect a real attack path is its own finding.
Scope and authorization
Testing covers your own Azure tenant and subscriptions. Microsoft's penetration testing rules of engagement generally permit this without prior notification for resources you own, but multi-tenant or shared infrastructure needs explicit authorization from all affected parties — confirmed as part of the signed rules of engagement before anything starts.
Questions about cloud testing
Primarily Microsoft Azure — that's where the depth is, backed by the AZ-500 (Azure Security Engineer Associate) certification and hands-on work with Entra ID, Azure RBAC, and Defender for Cloud. If your environment is AWS or GCP, ask on the scoping call — general cloud security principles (IAM misconfiguration, storage exposure, privilege escalation paths) carry across providers, but Azure is where the certified, deep expertise is.
Entra ID (Azure AD) configuration review, Azure RBAC and privilege escalation paths, storage account and blob exposure, misconfigured service principals and managed identities, Defender for Cloud coverage gaps, and network security group misconfigurations — the cloud-specific attack surface that a traditional network test doesn't reach.
Microsoft's rules of engagement for Azure generally permit testing of your own resources without prior notification, but scope needs to be your own tenant and resources only — shared or multi-tenant infrastructure needs explicit written authorization from whoever else is affected. This gets confirmed as part of the signed rules of engagement before testing starts.
A configuration review checks settings against a benchmark (CIS, Microsoft's own recommendations) — useful, but static. This engagement actively tests whether misconfigurations are exploitable: can a low-privilege identity actually escalate through a chain of role assignments to something critical? That distinction matters the same way it does for on-prem AD testing.
3 to 7 business days depending on tenant size and the number of subscriptions or resource groups in scope.
From $1,500, scoped to tenant size and complexity. See the pricing page for details.
Find your tenant's privilege-escalation paths before an attacker does
Free scoping call, fixed-price proposal within 24 hours.