Stay Ahead of Cloud Threats: Introducing Azure and AWS Security Reviews

Outlines five cloud security challenges—shadow IT, attacker-defender resource asymmetry, catastrophic misconfigurations—and argues purpose-built cloud penetration testing is the way to address them.

Gartner attributes up to 95% of cloud breaches to human configuration errors; NetSPI catalogs usual suspects like missing MFA, cloud-on-prem integration, and over-permissioned accounts.

Compares cloud penetration testing across AWS and Azure, explaining the shared responsibility model and why platform-specific nuances matter for methodology and cloud security maturity.

Karl Fosaaen explores anonymous enumeration of Azure blob storage, explaining container access policies and releasing tooling to find publicly exposed blobs holding configs, backups, and credentials.

Explores hosting red team phishing pages and payloads on Azure services under Microsoft's trusted domains, using their good reputation to slip past web filters as domain fronting fades.

Stolen Azure Container Registry admin credentials enable Docker login, image and tag enumeration via Registry REST APIs, and pulling containers to hunt secrets; MicroBurst's Get-AzACR automates it.