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Protecting Your Azure Key Vault: Why Azure RBAC Is Critical for Security

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Apr 25, 2025
Introduction In today’s cloud-centric landscape, misconfigured access controls remain one of the most critical weaknesses in the cyber kill chain. When access policies are overly permissive, they c...
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sbebrys
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Sep 01, 2025

Nice article and good direction to use Azure RBAC everywhere, but also totaly useless for bigger subscriptions where its easy to fall to the limit of role assignment per sub (4000).
Hope you also look to the other internal access management like CosmosDB and Azure Redis ;)