{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/scoring-azure-permissions-with-metric-spaces","title":"Scoring Azure permissions with metric spaces","arxiv_id":"2504.13747","date":"2025-04-18","proceeding":null,"authors":["Christophe Parisel"],"abstract":"In this work, we introduce two complementary metrics for quantifying and scoring privilege risk in Microsoft Azure. In the Control Plane, we define the WAR distance, a superincreasing distance over Write, Action, and Read control permissions, which yields a total ordering of principals by their configuration power. In the Data Plane, we present a blast radius distance for measuring the maximum breadth of data exfiltration and forgery, leveraging the natural ultrametry of Azure Tenants clustering hierarchy Together, these metrics offer a unified framework for proactive IAM analysis, ranking, lifecycle monitoring, and least privilege enforcement.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.13747v2","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.13747v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"scoring-azure-permissions-with-metric-spaces","repo_url":"https://github.com/labyrinthinesecurity/silhouette","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}