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Introduction to Azure Security

Presented at DEF CON 30 (2022), Aug. 11, 2022, 2 p.m. (240 minutes).

In recent times, Azure has become one of the dominant cloud service providers. Most enterprises today have some infrastructure if not all deployed on the cloud and attackers are constantly on the hunt for finding a way into the infrastructure. Among the recent cloud hacks, around 97 percent are due to misconfigurations and various surveys suggest that in most cases, people were not aware of how misconfiguration can happen in various circumstances. Azure security is a mammoth in itself and a lot of people struggle in getting started with it, for the same reason many cloud administrators and developers are not aware of how misconfigurations and vulnerable applications can be leveraged to get a foothold on the account. This workshop is a power course for Azure security, we will first cover the fundamentals and building blocks of Azure then we will take a look at the threatscape and attack vectors. Materials: A laptop with the latest web browser and network connectivity A Kali VM (Virtual Box, VMWare, WSL) Prereq: Basic knowledge of Linux and Networking

Presenters:

  • Jeswin Mathai - Senior Security Researcher
    Jeswin Mathai is a Senior Security Researcher at INE. Prior to joining INE, He was working as a senior security researcher at Pentester Academy (Acquired by INE). At Pentester Academy, he was also part of the platform engineering team who was responsible for managing the whole lab infrastructure. He has published his work at DEFCON China, RootCon, Blackhat Arsenal, and Demo labs (DEFCON). He has also been a co-trainer in classroom trainings conducted at Black Hat Asia, HITB, RootCon, OWASP NZ Day. He has a Bachelor degree from IIIT Bhubaneswar. He was the team lead at InfoSec Society IIIT Bhubaneswar in association with CDAC and ISEA, which performed security auditing of government portals, conducted awareness workshops for government institutions. His area of interest includes Cloud Security, Container Security, and Web Application Security.
  • Nishant Sharma - Security Research Manager
    Nishant Sharma is a Security Research Manager at INE, where he manages the development of next-generation on-demand labs. Before INE, he worked as R&D Head of Pentester Academy (Acquired by INE), where he led a team of developers/researchers to create content and platform features for AttackDefense. He has also developed multiple gadgets for WiFi pentesting/monitoring such as WiMonitor, WiNX, and WiMini. With over 9+ years of experience in development and content creation, he has conducted trainings/workshops at Blackhat Asia/USA, HITB Amsterdam/Singapore, OWASP NZ day, and DEFCON USA villages. He has presented/published his work at Blackhat USA/Asia Arsenal, DEFCON USA/China, Wireless Village, Packet Village and IoT village. He has also conducted WiFi Pentesting training at Blackhat USA 2019, 2021. He had started his career as a firmware developer at Mojo Networks (Acquired by Arista) where he worked on new features for the enterprise-grade WiFi APs and maintenance of state-of-the-art WIPS. He has a Master degree in Information Security from IIIT Delhi. He has also published peer-reviewed academic research on HMAC security. His areas of interest include WiFi, Azure, and Container security.

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