Validating Azure Cloud Security with Breach and Attack Simulation as a Service

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.

NetSPI research found nearly 60% of common attack tactics slip past endpoint tools with default settings. Its BAS as a Service blends expert-led testing with platform data to validate detection.

NetSPI's June updates add 185 LOLBAS plays and eight advanced plays to its Breach and Attack Simulation platform, plus new Attack Surface Management and PTaaS capabilities for detection validation.

Breach and attack simulation validates detective controls by mimicking real threats; NetSPI data shows 80 percent of common attack behaviors evade out-of-the-box EDR, SIEM, and MSSP detection.

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.

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.