Entra.Chat

Jul 20, 202646m

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 pipe

Jul 12, 202654m#66

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 identiti

Jul 4, 202644m#65

AI agent security is not just about attackers using AI. It is also about attackers targeting the agent ecosystem most organizations cannot see clearly yet: MCP servers, agent skills, packages, API keys, prompts, tools, a

Jun 28, 202647m#64

Folks, every big thing in identity started as somebody’s late-night side quest and Vince Smith has been in the room for a lot of them. In this episode of Entra Chat, Vince (the PM lead driving Microsoft Entra Agent ID) w

Jun 20, 20261h 8m

Not every admin in your tenant is a person. Service principals, app registrations, and the new wave of agent identities can quietly hold permissions powerful enough to own your entire environment and most orgs can’t even

Jun 13, 202643m#62

AI agents can make decisions and act faster than any human — which means your old identity security playbook no longer holds. In this episode of Entra Chat, [host name] sits down with Nikhil, a 10+ year Microsoft identit

Jun 6, 202634m#61

In this episode of Entra Chat, we sit down with Christina Morillo , the Senior Director of Information Security for the New York Football Giants , to explore her inspiring transition from an identity specialist to a top-

May 31, 202646m#60

Passkeys are one of those technologies that sound simple on paper. Turn them on.Users register them.Passwords go away.Everyone is more secure. But in the real world, passkey rollouts are not just an authentication settin

May 23, 202649m#60

Microsoft had 7 million internal tenants and almost lost control of their environment and your org might be facing the same problem at a smaller scale. In this episode, we sit down with Jeff Staiman , PM Area Lead for Te

May 16, 202650m#59

Fabian and Thomas join the podcast to share their extensive experience and unpack the massive wave of updates coming to Microsoft Entra. We talk about the massive shift toward Passkeys and registration campaigns, the imp

May 9, 202644m#58

Microsoft Entra Agent ID Just Went GA Here’s What You Need to Know About Agent Permissions If you’ve been waiting for the dust to settle on Microsoft Entra Agent ID before diving in, the wait is over. Agent ID hit Genera

May 2, 20261h 1m#57

Maester is back with one of its biggest release since launch. In this episode, we are joined by Sam Erde, Architect at Patriot Consulting and one of Maester’s core maintainers, to walk through everything that’s landed in

Apr 25, 202646m#56

Identity Governance is often treated as a “nice-to-have” compliance checkbox, but as ID Governance expert Sandra Saluti reveals, it is actually the foundation of a secure, scalable environment. In this technical deep div

Apr 18, 202659m#56

Microsoft Entra security is evolving and the way organizations think about identity protection needs to evolve with it. In this episode, I’m joined by Sean Metcalf, one of the foremost identity security experts in the in

Apr 11, 202656m#55

If you can’t immediately name your break glass accounts and the last time you tested them → you’re already at risk. In this episode of Entra Chat, Microsoft MVP Per Torben walks through the conditional access mistakes he

Apr 4, 20261h 0m#54

Microsoft just dropped a massive wave of features for Entra, and the rules of Tenant Governance have officially changed. Join us as we talk to three world-class MVPs about their hands-on experience with the new Entra Bac

Mar 28, 20261h 1m#54

Emilien Socchi, Cloud Security Research Engineer at Storebrand, joins us to discuss CA Insight and AZTier. Two open-source tools Emilien built to find gaps in Conditional Access policies and categorize Azure/Entra roles

Mar 21, 202655m#53

Darren Robinson, Identity and Zero Trust Strategy and Architecture Capability Lead at Increment, shares his extensive experience in identity governance and administration. In this episode Merill sits down with Darren “Do

Mar 14, 202642m#52

Richard Hicks wrote the book on DirectAccess. Then he wrote the one on Always On VPN. Now he’s here to tell you it’s time to move on from both (and other legacy VPNs). Over the last two years, Richard has helped numerous

Mar 7, 20261h 9m#51

I am back home in Melbourne today, and joining me are Nathan McNulty from Alaska and Daniel Bradley from the UK as we dive into all the massive Entra updates that dropped last month. We are breaking down the controversia

Feb 28, 202638m#50

Hey folks, I have to start with a massive shout-out to Morten Knudsen and his entire team at Experts Live Denmark where I’m just returning from. Organizing an event for over 1,200+ attendees is no small feat, and they pu

Feb 21, 20261h 1m#49

What does it take to migrate 40,000 devices to a cloud-native environment in a massive, complex enterprise? For most IT leaders, the prospect of moving away from 20 years of legacy infrastructure is enough to cause a sle

Feb 14, 202652m#48

March 2026 is shaping up to be one of the most important months for Microsoft Entra ID administrators in recent memory. Microsoft is automatically enabling passkey profiles in Entra ID, and if you don’t configure them yo

Feb 7, 202647m#47

Governance in Microsoft 365 has always been hard. Not because the tools didn’t exist, but because scale, complexity, and change made consistency almost impossible. As tenants grow, so do the challenges of configuration d

Jan 31, 202645m#46

In this episode, we sit down with Eric Woodruff, Chief Identity Architect at Semperis, to discuss the reality of achieving a 100% phishing-resistant environment. Over the course of just three months, Eric led a 600-perso