Alright, Guardians. In Westeros, no lord opens a letter without checking the seal first. A direwolf means Winterfell. A lion means trouble from King's Landing. A raven with no seal at all? Could be from anyone and anyone is exactly who you should worry about. Now picture your
A haunting in the Policies blade It's late. You open the Conditional Access blade in a tenant you inherited. Forty something policies scroll past. Four of them are nearly identical: Require compliant device: Windows, macOS, iOS, Android. Now a scary question. How many of those policies have your
Alright, Guardians....picture this. Saturday morning, the fire alarm goes off. Everything in a production Azure subscription is gone. VMs, VNets, the infrastructure the business runs on, you name it. Deleted. Someone with the right access walked in and burned the castle down. The Azure Activity log shows who pressed
Alright, Guardians. Last time I told you the Wall was coming down. Microsoft provided SMS and voice authentication is on its way out of Entra ID for MFA and SSPR alike. The prompts started September 1, 2026. Delivery ends for most users on February 1, 2027 and for Global Admins
Alright, Guardians. A few weeks ago I told you how I locked myself out of everything with a single Conditional Access click. If you read that post, you know the moral of the story: the account that saves you is the one you set up before the fire starts. Every
Every wall falls eventually. Winterfell held the North for a thousand years before it burned. The Wall itself stood against everything beyond it, until it didn't. In Destiny, even the Traveler's Light has limits; the tools that got a Guardian through one Crucible match don'
Entra
Alright, Guardians….let's dive deeper into our favorite topic…Entra. If you've spent any time in my world, you know I live at the intersection of Microsoft Security and "things that sound like they belong in a fantasy novel." Entra ID is basically the
Entra
Locking myself out of everything with the click of a button... It all started on a normal Tuesday. I was wrapping up my day and was reading through some Microsoft Learn docs. I had recently been piloting the Microsoft Edge Security Baseline, so that was top of mind. I saw
Entra
#PIM #EntraID #ZeroTrust #IAM As the modern threat landscape continues to evolve, Identity Administrators are at the forefront of protecting their users. Today’s topic will cover the potential gaps and risks that are posed to Entra Admins and why leveraging a P2 (Microsoft Entra P2 or Entra Suite....I
I'm Kevin Villarreal, a father, husband, brother, cybersecurity enthusiast, based in Texas. These days I spend my time helping organizations navigate and implement the Microsoft Security stack, but the road here started long before "Security" was in my job title. Where it started Ever since I