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Cloud Penetration Testing
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Cloud Penetration Testing

by Kim Crawley
November 2023
Intermediate to advanced
298 pages
8h 6m
English
Packt Publishing
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7

Security Features in Azure

As a cloud pentester, it’s important for you to understand one of the most popular cloud platforms out there—that is, Azure. You’ll probably be pentesting Azure networks and applications frequently.

In this chapter, we will first examine some of the most commonly used aspects of the Azure ecosystem along with the most popular Azure services, applications, and features, and why they’re used. After that, we’ll look into Azure Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) features. We will conclude the chapter by discussing Microsoft’s own Azure security tools and third-party security tools.

This chapter covers the following main topics:

  • Introduction to Azure
  • Frequently ...
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