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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.
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The Ultimate Microsoft Entra Global Secure Access Migration Guide (opens the original)
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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 destinations should be blocked, and which exceptions keep the business running. Migrate2GSA creates a path to preserve the useful parts while making the migration a deliberate cleanup opportunity. In this episode of Entra.Chat , I spoke with Andres Canello, Principal P
Why Entra Admins Need Microsoft Purview Now (opens the original)
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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 sensitive data moving toward unsanctioned AI apps. That means Entra teams need enough Purview knowledge to understand what triggers a policy, how users experience it, and who should respond when an alert fires. In this episode of Entra.Chat, Merill speaks with R
How Xbox Secures 70+ Entra Tenants Every Night with Maester (opens the original)
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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 whether each environment still matches Xbox’s security intent. When a Conditional Access policy moves to report-only or a required service principal loses a permission, the next run finds it. In this episode of Entra.Chat, Merill speaks with Audrey Long, Principa
One Compromised Agent ID Blueprint Can Cross Tenant Boundaries (opens the original)
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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 blueprint belongs to a third-party provider and is trusted across customer tenants, the provider’s credential security becomes part of every customer’s risk model. In this episode of Entra.Chat, Merill speaks with Katie Knowles, Senior Security Researcher at Datadog
Attackers Are Targeting The AI Ecosystem You Cannot See (opens the original)
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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, and the identity layer underneath all of it. In this episode, I sit down with Thomas Roccia , founder of Security Break and a former Microsoft threat researcher, to look at AI agents from the threat-intelligence side. Thomas explains why the easiest path for attackers may not be f
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