Azure and Entra ID security
Certified Azure Red Team Professional
CARTP validates practical red team and penetration testing skills across live Azure tenants, Entra ID and hybrid identity environments.
About the certification
The Certified Azure Red Team Professional assessment takes place in a live, multi-tenant Azure environment. It requires candidates to discover exposed services, develop access, enumerate identities and resources, escalate privileges, move between cloud and on-premises systems and document the completed attack paths.
Skills it validates
The certification assesses practical knowledge across the following areas.
- Azure service and tenant discovery
- Initial access through applications, identities and storage
- Resource and identity enumeration
- Privilege escalation, lateral movement and persistence
- Hybrid cloud attack paths, defensive controls and reporting
What it means for clients
Within a Darkside engagement, these skills support disciplined testing, realistic attack-path analysis and reporting that prioritises useful outcomes.
- Helps identify dangerous relationships between cloud identities and resources
- Supports realistic testing of Azure-only and hybrid attack paths
- Connects offensive techniques with the controls and telemetry needed to detect them
Credentials and delivery
Certification is one part of our assurance model. Darkside combines validated knowledge with manual testing, peer review and engagement-specific judgement; every scope, test plan and report is shaped around the client’s systems and risk.