Emergencies happen every day. Most of the time, they happen to someone else. Until the day they happen to you - then what? We all know things can go wrong, but most organizations do not spend much time thinking about what happens when they lose access to their own environment. That is understandable right up until the moment a misconfiguration, outage or any other emergency turns it from a theoretical problem into a very real one. That is why emergency access matters. In this

Have you ever felt that the native reporting options in the Microsoft Cloud are lacking? Well, you’re not alone - let’s talk about it. Visibility into your Microsoft Cloud identity and security configurations has never been more important… or more fragmented. While Microsoft offers native reporting options for specific parts of our environments, they are often too narrow, incomplete, or difficult to use without significant additional processing. That gap led to the creation o

Today I want to walk through how to configure Azure App Service Authentication when your App Service sits behind Azure Front Door and is accessed through a Private Link. On a dreadful day in october 2025, I received something that most IT people fear - a request from a client! The request included information from the client, that they were struggling with authentication on a Web App deployed behind Azure Front Door using Private Link. What looked like a straightforward setup

In Part 1 of this mini-series, we explored the what, why, and how of Microsoft Entra Authentication Contexts, laying the foundation for what they are and how they work. In this second part, we’ll build on that foundation with real-world examples of how Authentication Contexts can secure user access and critical actions. Along the way, we’ll walk through configurations, share recommendations, and look at the Conditional Access policies that tie it all together. So, let’s dive