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  • 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…

  • 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…

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  • 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…

  • How Xbox Secures 70+ Entra Tenants Every Night with Maester

    July 20, 2026 · 47 min

    Xbox Security runs a gaming-specific Microsoft Entra baseline across more than 70 tenants every night. The scale is striking: about 50 controls, dozens of independently operated game-studio tenants, and one parallel pipeline that checks…

  • One Compromised Agent ID Blueprint Can Cross Tenant Boundaries

    July 12, 2026 · 54 min

    Microsoft Entra Agent ID uses familiar application and service-principal objects under the hood, but its one-to-many hierarchy creates a different security boundary. A blueprint can be associated with many agent identities. When that…

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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