Microsoft Azure provides a comprehensive security assessment platform through Prowler, which offers flexible authentication methods to accommodate different organizational needs and security requirements. The tool's flexibility in authentication methods stands as one of its key strengths, offering multiple approaches to accommodate different operational contexts. A Service Principal with Secret (Client Credentials) is the preferred approach for automated and production implementations, providing a robust foundation for implementing comprehensive security assessments across Azure environments. Prowler requires specific permissions to perform its security assessments effectively, and organizations should ensure their service principal needs these additional roles: security reader role and basic Prowler Azure execution. To enhance security through Doppler's secrets management platform, organizations can store their Azure credentials in a new Doppler project, create a robust process that retrieves credentials from Doppler, and implement regular rotation of service principal credentials to maintain proper credential management.