4EXAMINING STORAGE
Over the next several chapters, we dive into specific Azure services and the pentest techniques and tools unique to each. We’ll begin with Azure Storage accounts, which are used by several Azure services to store everything from logs to virtual machine “hard disk” images. Customers also use storage accounts for document sharing and backups—essentially a cloud-based replacement for on-premises file servers. Of course, centralizing all of this data in one place makes for a tempting target for attackers.
Aside from the potential value of its data, a storage account is an ideal target for several reasons; the most important is that ...
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