Impairing Azure Defenses Through Diagnostic Setting Manipulation

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Topics: Azure, Security, Logging

MITRE ATT&CK: T1562.008

> Azure diagnostic settings are the single control point between resource telemetry and your SIEM. This article explains how attackers exploit that dependency — disabling security logs at the source while keeping metrics flowing — to blind detection pipelines without triggering operational alerts. C