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Azure penetration testing is part of our broader cloud penetration testing services, covering Azure, AWS and Google Cloud environments.
Cloud-Specific Threat Identification: Our experts focus on cloud-based threats and misconfigurations unique to Azure environments, including identity management flaws and exposed resources.
Comprehensive Assessment: We conduct a full-scale penetration test covering virtual machines, network interfaces, storage accounts, and more, ensuring a deep assessment of your Azure deployment.
Customizable Testing Approach: Whether you need testing for development, production environments, or specific Azure services (e.g., App Services, Azure Kubernetes), we adapt our approach to fit your needs.
Detailed Reporting & Remediation Guidance: After identifying vulnerabilities, we provide an in-depth report with actionable steps to strengthen your cloud security and close any security gaps.
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Identity is the primary Azure attack surface. We assess tenant configuration, privileged role assignments, Conditional Access policy gaps, legacy authentication exposure, application registrations and consent grants, service principal credentials, and paths to Global Administrator.
Effective permission mapping across management groups, subscriptions and resource groups. We identify escalation routes including Owner and User Access Administrator abuse, custom role over-permissioning, and Privileged Identity Management (PIM) configuration weaknesses.
System and user-assigned managed identity permissions, credential theft from compute metadata (IMDS), service principal secret and certificate hygiene, and cross-resource impersonation paths.
Storage account public access, container and blob ACLs, SAS token scope and expiry, Key Vault access policies and RBAC, and SQL Database authentication and firewall configuration.
Application settings and connection string exposure, deployment credential risk, Kudu/SCM console access, and function-level authorisation flaws.
Cluster RBAC, workload identity configuration, pod-level credential access, network policy enforcement, and container breakout paths to the node.
Virtual network segmentation, Network Security Group rules, peering trust, exposed public IPs and management endpoints, and hybrid connectivity back to on-premises Active Directory.
Where Azure connects to on-premises AD — Entra Connect configuration, password hash sync and pass-through authentication risk, and the federation trust paths that allow movement between cloud and on-premises.
Whether Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Sentinel and Azure Activity Logs detected our activity, and where coverage gaps exist.
At Bluefire Redteam, we follow a structured process to ensure thorough testing and meaningful results:
For a complete breakdown of pricing models and enterprise budgeting considerations, see our dedicated Azure penetration testing cost guide.
Microsoft permits customer-initiated penetration testing against your own Azure resources under the Microsoft Cloud Unified Penetration Testing Rules of Engagement, without requiring prior notification.
Permitted: testing of resources within your own subscriptions and tenant, including applications, virtual machines, storage, and identity configuration you control.
Prohibited: any testing that impacts other tenants or shared Microsoft infrastructure, denial-of-service testing, and intensive network fuzzing against Azure platform services.
How we work within the rules:
Identify and mitigate vulnerabilities in your Azure environment before attackers can exploit them
Ensure sensitive business data stored in your Azure infrastructure remains secure.
Meet industry and regulatory standards, such as GDPR, PCI DSS, and HIPAA, with regular penetration testing.
Address misconfigurations, exposed services, and identity flaws that can lead to unauthorized access.
Yes, Microsoft permits Azure penetration testing under certain conditions. You must follow Microsoft’s guidelines for testing cloud environments and notify them in advance
We test a wide range of Azure services, including virtual machines, networking components, databases, and identity management systems, to ensure comprehensive coverage.
We recommend performing penetration tests after major configuration changes or deployments and at least annually to maintain security posture and compliance.
No. Microsoft permits testing of your own Azure resources without prior notification, provided it follows the Microsoft Cloud Unified Penetration Testing Rules of Engagement.
Typically a Reader role at subscription or management group level, plus Directory Reader in Entra ID. For grey-box testing we may request a low-privilege user account to simulate a compromised employee.
Yes — and this is often where the most serious findings are. Entra Connect and federation trust paths frequently allow movement between cloud and on-premises in both directions.
No. Testing is rate-limited, destructive techniques are excluded by default, and anything potentially disruptive requires explicit approval and a scheduled window.
Cost depends on subscription count, deployed services, and whether identity, container and application layers are in scope. See our Azure penetration testing cost page for detail.
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