Microsoft Security

Identity attacks don't start with malware — they start with a perfectly valid sign-in. Microsoft Defender for Identity is the monitoring and early-warning system for your organization's "control room." This article breaks down the business case: what you're buying, how it reduces identity exposure, why earlier detection compresses cost, and how identity signals correlate into unified incidents for faster response. Includes an ROI model, executive and engineer checklists, and

I've never investigated a breach where Conditional Access failed — only where expectations did. Most CA breakdowns aren't technical. They're architectural: wrong exclusions, forgotten accounts, policies that evaluate risk but never enforce it. This article covers the four most common failure patterns — and the three-phase approach to fix them.