Azure Security

  • Cloud Shared Security Responsibility Model

    • Few controls need to focus

      • Physical Security

      • Host Security/client/end point protection

      • Network controls

      • Application Security controls

      • Identity and Access Management

      • Data Classification

  • Azure Subscription

    • How many subscriptions we have now ?

  • Azure Tenants

    • Tenant ID

  • *** Azure AD might have collection of subscriptions based on the cloud services onboarded

  • Cloud based Identity and Access management service

  • Azure Active Directory :

  • Azure AD Rest API calls on port 80,443

  • Authentication and Authorization protocol's :

  • AML, WS-Federation, OpenID Connect, Oauth, SAML 2.0 over HTTPS/HTTP

  • Kerberos, which is used by on-premises AD.

  • Uses federation services, ADFS

  • Azure AD helps,

  • authentication with SaaS

  • Applications hosted on Azure

  • Authentication management, cloud and on prem applications

  • Traditional AD :

  • LDAP (389) and LDAPs (686)

  • Uses kerberos for authentication

  • User and Groups on organization units and group policy objects

  • Service principles

  • External Users UPN's

    • Need regular audit

  • Custom domain on Azure DNS configuration

  • Azure AD Licensing and what features we have

    • Identity Protection

    • Privileged Identity Management

    • Azure AD Identity Security

  • Azure Groups

    • Security groups

    • MS 365 groups

  • Azure AD roles : access to azure AD

  • Azure AD RBAC roles : access to Azure resources

  • Application Registration on Azure

  • Azure AD Connect : synchronization of on prem AD to cloud AD

  • Domain Join

  • Attack scenarios:

    • Compromised credentials

    • Azure AD authentication brute force

  • Logs:

    • Azure AD auth on 443, 80

    • AD on LDAP 389, 686

    • Azure AD Modern authentication protocols

    • Monitoring GPO changes

    • Kerberos authentication activity

      • UDP 88

      • TCP 88

      • TCP 2105

      • TCP 544

      • TCP 1 -1023

      • TCP 32000-65535

    • NTLM authentication activity

    • Azure AD Built in roles review

  • Reference:

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