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Entra.Chat

Merill Fernando
Microsoft Entra
Conditional Access
Microsoft
Microsoft 365
Entra ID
Active Directory
Passkeys
Azure
Cybersecurity
Identity Governance
Zero Trust
Identity Management
Global Secure Access
Artificial Intelligence
Maester
Application Permissions
App Governance
Azure Active Directory
Entra
Microsoft Entra ID

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... more

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Most SaaS vendors connect to your tenant with one multitenant app and one credential, shared by every customer. Kelvin Tegelaar, founder of CyberDrain and creator of CIPP (used by well over 10,000 MSPs), sees it from both sides, and his verdict is bl... more

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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 Colley has... more

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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. It’s tempt... more

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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 every Entra... more

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Brandon Colley
Senior Security Consultant at TrustedSec and Microsoft Security MVP.
TrustedSec
Episode: Conditional Access Gaps and the App Back Door, with Brandon Colley
Jeff Sakowicz
Microsoft product leader with 14 years of experience in identity and the Entra application platform
Microsoft
Episode: Stop the Bleeding: Cleaning Up Apps, Secrets and Consent in Microsoft Entra
Alexander (Alex) PM, Global Secure Access
PM on the Global Secure Access team, former customer-facing identity role
Microsoft Entra
Episode: Stolen Tokens, Agents and Universal CAE: What Global Secure Access Adds to Entra ID
Arturo Lucatero
Product Manager on the Entra Agent Identity platform
Microsoft
Episode: Your AI Coding Agent Is Creating Secrets You Don’t Know About
Michael Soule
Co-maintainer of Maester project, AD testing specialist
Maester project
Episode: Active Directory Security Testing in Maester 2.2
Tarek Dawoud
Lead Architect in the Technical Excellence Team; Microsoft Security Customer Value Program
Microsoft
Episode: Microsoft Security Architect: Active Directory Is 10x Harder to Defend Than Entra
Andrew Cameron
distinguished engineer in identity and cybersecurity at General Motors
General Motors
Episode: How General Motors Moved 200,000 People to Passkeys
Gregor Reimling
Azure architect at Dessau, Entra practitioner
Adeso
Episode: Microsoft Entra memberOf Retirement: What Admins Must Do
René Wasel
M365 Specialist
German company internal IT
Episode: Microsoft Entra memberOf Retirement: What Admins Must Do

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Merill Fernando
Host of Entra.Chat

Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars from 43 ratings
  • Excellent IAM Discussions

    Four episodes in, Enta.Chat is an excellent opportunity for IAM (Identity Access Management)practitioners to listen to Merill and his Guest discuss interesting, useful, informative, and practical Entra ID insights! Looking forward to many more episodes! Kudos to Merill for yet another IAM community beneficial endeavor! MM

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    MikeM0808
    United States2 years ago
  • An identity security podcast that’s not afraid of detail. Finally!

    Merill has hit the nail on the head with the content and depth of discussion in the first episode of Entra.Chat. So many security (and more specifically identity) podcasts are great to listen to however are so high level and conceptual you rarely come away with advice you can apply when practicing identity security. Sometimes they’re borderline product placement!

    Merrill’s pod is choc full of practical examples you instinctively want to store away in your brain as you just know one day you wil... more

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    MichaelFreemanIAM
    Australia2 years ago

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Practitioners praise practical, hands-on IAM content with concrete takeaways.
Guests are consistently relevant and provide real-world guidance for Entra deployments.
Deep technical depth appreciated over high-level discussions.

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Conditional Access Gaps and the App Back Door, with Brandon Colley
Q: What are your tips for Conditional Access?
Colley advises preserving security defaults when appropriate, covering every privileged role and application, separating conditions that should apply independently, testing combinations comprehensively, and reviewing device platforms, trusted locations, and user actions.
Conditional Access Gaps and the App Back Door, with Brandon Colley
Q: How do you compare some of the security things that you have, like MFA and other things in the Google Suite stack, Google Workspace versus what we have in the Entra side of the world?
Colley says that understanding the security concepts and the reasons behind controls matters more than memorizing platform-specific configuration steps. The underlying principles transfer across Google, Amazon, and Azure, even though the settings differ.
Stop the Bleeding: Cleaning Up Apps, Secrets and Consent in Microsoft Entra
Q: What should admins do when they are met with a consent screen, and what due diligence should they do before approving it?
Admins should establish what the app is and whether its requested access makes sense for the business, verify its publisher when appropriate, assess who built it, and understand why each permission is needed. They should weigh business value against risk rather than judging the request by the length of its permission list.
Stop the Bleeding: Cleaning Up Apps, Secrets and Consent in Microsoft Entra
Q: How have you seen tenant-level separation for applications and customer data work in the real world, and is it a good practice or too much overhead?
Tenant isolation can be useful segmentation for organizations with the resources and processes to maintain it. Organizations without that capacity may create more risk through a neglected separate tenant. A practical middle ground is to protect high-value app owners and sponsors carefully and separate test, demo and staging environments.
Stolen Tokens, Agents and Universal CAE: What Global Secure Access Adds to Entra ID
Q: What about agent-based versus agentless scenarios, and Copilot Studio?
Agent-based traffic can leverage the full policy set in GSA, while agentless scenarios (e.g., Copilot Studio or browser-based) allow policy enforcement with minimal deployment. Copilot Studio requires a simple admin checkbox to route traffic through GSA, enabling enterprise policies for backend agent traffic without endpoint installation.

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What is Entra.Chat about and what kind of topics does it cover?

The show centers on practical identity and security strategies for Microsoft Entra, with in-depth conversations featuring practitioners who implement or build identity solutions. Episodes frequently cover passwordless authentication, passkeys, agent identities, governance, and real-world deployment challenges across large organizations and gaming studios. Listeners can expect hands-on guidance, migration roadmaps, and governance best practices drawn from multi-tenant environments, CI/CD integrations, and enterprise-scale rollouts. A standout trait is the mix of practitioner-for-practitioner episodes, featuring engineers, security architects, and product teams who share actionable tips, pitfalls, and telemetry-driven insights for immediate u... more

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