Building Better Cloud Detections�By Hacking? Azure Edition

As with any enterprise environment, we can (and should) focus on hardening our defenses to keep the adversaries out, but these defenses may some day be evaded via a variety of methods. Cloud is no different.

We will discuss the process of creating a detection that we can use as defenders to spot an adversary performing attack techniques against our Azure environments.

The overall process and takeaways will be:

• Establish proper logging to detect the adversarial activity Perform the attack to generate the appropriate artifacts
• Review the log event data
• Create an automated process to quickly discover this activity
• Test that the automated process is working effectively by "re-attacking" the Azure account