This checklist provides a five-step approach to securing Microsoft Azure as cloud services proliferate and misconfigurations remain a dominant breach driver. It starts with discovering and mapping assets and sensitive data to infrastructure-as-code, then managing static configuration risk with CSPM aligned to standards like the CIS Microsoft Azure Foundations benchmark and automated remediation workflows. Next, it reduces permission risk through CIEM by identifying inactive users, reviewing IAM regularly, and enforcing least privilege. It then emphasizes continuously detecting and responding to threats by correlating cloud activity with runtime insights (in-use vulnerabilities and permissions) to prioritize real risk and detect suspicious changes and executions quickly. Finally, it focuses

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