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

TL;DR

Cloud security is always evolving, and organizations need more than just audits or penetration tests to secure their environment. That’s where NetSPI’s new Azure-focused Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) packs come in. These simulations go deep, using the MITRE ATT&CK Cloud Matrix and NetSPI’s Azure expertise to test and strengthen your defenses.  

By running tailored attack plays directly against your Azure environment, you’ll get actionable insights to improve your security. With this approach, NetSPI combines the best of BAS as a Service and cloud security to help you stay ahead of threats and keep your Azure tenant’s security defenses strong.

Introducing NetSPI Breach and Attack Simulation for Azure Cloud

In the world of breach and attack simulation, we are seeing an increased demand for coverage in the cloud security space. Cloud-forward organizations that have been maturing in the cloud are getting past the point of just needing configuration audits and/or penetration tests to test their security. Many organizations are now finding value in testing their detective controls in the cloud to validate their security measures. 

We recently redefined NetSPI’s Breach and Attack Simulation as a Service to offer focused testing to address specific environments and threat vectors. We now offer five simulations packs, including MITRE ATT&CK, Azure Cloud, Ransomware, Linux, and ESXi.

NetSPI’s first major step into the cloud attack simulation space is in Azure. Despite AWS having the majority share in the cloud market, Azure had a market share of 24% and showed a customer growth rate of 14.2% in 2024. This, coupled with NetSPI’s significant experience in the Azure space, and customer demand for extending their existing attack simulations testing into Azure, we are very excited to address this trend.

How We Harness the Power of MITRE ATT&CK Framework for Cloud

Much like our other BAS as a Service offerings, we structure the majority of our Azure attack simulations, or plays, around the MITRE ATT&CK framework. Specifically, we focus on the MITRE Cloud Matrix, where we have contributed original research around Azure attack techniques. 

Using the Cloud Matrix as a guide, we’ve created a continuously expanding set of plays to run in Azure environments to cover everything from anonymous attacks through privilege escalation and data exfiltration. This comprehensive approach empowers security teams to emulate a wide variety of attacks to test their organization’s multi-layered detection and response capabilities. In addition to regularly developing with new Azure attack primitives, our team continues to innovate by regularly updating our available plays with additional current and emerging attack techniques for Azure. 

The plays themselves are primarily executed from within your Azure environment with the help of one of our Azure experts to emulate attackers in your tenant. Our team is deeply knowledgeable on each of our plays, so they can give you the in-depth information and context that you need to understand the attacks and how to respond to them. We will closely collaborate with your team to test from inside your Azure tenant, so that we can emulate attacks on both internal and external fronts. 

Gain Unmatched BAS as a Service Expertise with NetSPI

As a visionary in the breach and attack simulation and cloud pentesting spaces, we’re excited to bring the two services together with our Azure BAS as a Service. We’re also looking forward to working with our clients to mature their Azure cloud security posture through these services and continually improve by running attack simulations through The NetSPI Platform as they fine-tune their Azure security controls. 

Ready to strengthen your cloud security and validate your defenses? View our BAS as a Service simulation packs to learn how NetSPI can help you stay ahead of evolving threats.