ASSESSMENT FOCUS
What this checklist covers
- Entra ID roles, MFA, and Conditional Access
- Subscription and management-group governance
- Network segmentation and private endpoints
- Storage, Key Vault, and managed identities
- Defender for Cloud, activity logs, and alerting
REFERENCE BASELINE
Standards and guidance
- Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark
- CIS Microsoft Azure Foundations
- Azure Well-Architected Framework
Tailor every control to the system's architecture, data classification, threat model, and written scope.
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How to use it professionally
Before testing
Confirm authorization, scope, exclusions, test windows, data handling, emergency contacts, and stop conditions.
During testing
Record the asset, request, expected control, observed result, evidence, and any cleanup action. Avoid destructive proof when a safer validation demonstrates the same issue.
After testing
Deduplicate related symptoms, identify the root cause, assign risk in business context, provide actionable remediation, and retest the final implementation.