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Conditional Access Gaps and the App Back Door, with Brandon Colley

October 24, 2026 · 39 min

Most Conditional Access gaps aren’t exotic. They come from reading policies the wrong way: as firewall rules with an “allow”, as a list of platforms that seems complete, as an MFA exception for the office that made sense years ago. Brandon…
Stop the Bleeding: Cleaning Up Apps, Secrets and Consent in Microsoft Entra

October 17, 2026 · 51 min

Most tenants have the same problem: hundreds of app registrations and service principals, client secrets that were set to expire in a hundred years, permission grants nobody remembers approving, and test tenants that were never cleaned up…
Stolen Tokens, Agents and Universal CAE: What Global Secure Access Adds to Entra ID

October 9, 2026 · 50 min

A phished and stolen refresh token is one of the most useful things an attacker can take from your tenant. It is a long-term artifact, which is why so many phishing attempts go after it. Alex Pavlovsky’s answer to that attack is a feature…
Your AI Coding Agent Is Creating Secrets You Don’t Know About

October 2, 2026 · 34 min

Ask a coding agent to build something that talks to another service and watch what it does. It creates a client secret. Then another one. As Arturo Lucatero puts it, next thing you know you have ten secrets that were created without you…
Active Directory Security Testing in Maester 2.2

September 17, 2026 · 37 min

Active Directory is not dead. It is nearly thirty years old, Microsoft is still shipping new capabilities and new telemetry for it, and most of the forests running today will outlive the people currently administering them. What has…

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Microsoft Security Architect: Active Directory Is 10x Harder to Defend Than Entra

September 6, 2026 · 59 min

At Black Hat USA 2026, Microsoft’s David Weston put three numbers on a slide that anyone still running domain controllers should sit with. The Microsoft Security Response Center went from 80 patches in February to 1,142 at the July Patch…
How General Motors Moved 200,000 People to Passkeys

August 31, 2026 · 44 min

Microsoft starts making passkeys the default in Microsoft Entra ID on 1 September 2026, and retires Microsoft-provided SMS and voice MFA on 1 February 2027. Every organisation with a large, messy population now has to answer a question…
Microsoft Entra memberOf Retirement: What Admins Must Do

August 25, 2026 · 43 min

On 3 November 2026, the memberOf operator in Microsoft Entra dynamic membership groups stops working. Nothing errors. Nothing breaks loudly. Every dynamic group, dynamic administrative unit and entitlement management auto-assignment policy…
Pass-the-Passkey: What Michael Grafnetter's Black Hat Research Means for Entra Admins

August 17, 2026 · 36 min

Passkeys are phishing-resistant. But that resistance is enforced by your browser, which binds every authentication to the origin that requested it. Skip the browser, and the guarantee weakens. In this episode of Entra.Chat, I spoke with…
From SMS MFA to Passkeys: A Practical Microsoft Entra Migration Plan

August 10, 2026 · 53 min

Microsoft-managed SMS and voice MFA will stop working on February 1, 2027. That deadline makes passkey planning urgent, but enabling a new authentication method is only the first milestone. In this episode of Entra.Chat, Merill speaks with…
The Ultimate Microsoft Entra Global Secure Access Migration Guide

August 3, 2026 · 49 min

An Entra GSA migration should not mean throwing away years of useful SSE policy work and rebuilding every application, segment, and rule by hand. Existing configuration carries hard-won intent: which populations need access, which…
Why Entra Admins Need Microsoft Purview Now

July 28, 2026 · 54 min

Conditional Access no longer begins and ends with identity signals. Microsoft Purview can now influence the controls Entra administrators are asked to implement. From insider-risk conditions in Conditional Access to inline protection for…

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About the show

Entra Chat is a weekly podcast hosted by Merill Fernando and delivers practical insights for Microsoft administrators and security professionals through conversations with identity experts who've been in the trenches. Episodes feature seasoned Entra practitioners sharing real-world deployment experiences and Microsoft Entra team members who build the features you use daily. Get the inside track on best practices, implementation strategies, and upcoming capabilities directly from those who design and deploy Microsoft identity solutions. Join us for actionable takeaways you can apply immediately in your Microsoft 365, Azure, and Entra environments. --- Entra.Chat, its content and opinions are my (Merill Fernando) own and do not reflect the views of my employer (Microsoft). All postings are provided “AS IS” with no warranties and is not supported by the author. All trademarks and copyrights belong to their owners and are used for identification only. entra.news