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OID-See v1.0.1: Small Release, Sharper Edges
18 Jan 2026 · 3 min read · entra · azuread

OID-See v1.0.1: Small Release, Sharper Edges

OID-See v1.0.1 tightens scoring logic, improves accuracy around app role assignments, ownership, and deception signals, and lays the groundwork for more trustworthy Entra ID app risk analysis.

Allow One, Allow All: When Conditional Access Loses the Plot
14 Jan 2026 · 7 min read · ConditionalAccess · EntraID

Allow One, Allow All: When Conditional Access Loses the Plot

Conditional Access is often treated as a fine-grained policy engine, but recent platform design choices show that many modern Microsoft workloads collapse behind shared identities and brokers. When Dev Box, AVD, and Windows 365 all authenticate through the same app, ‘allow one’ can quietly become ‘allow all’.

OID-See: Giving Your OAuth Apps the Side-Eye
5 Jan 2026 · 26 min read · entra · azuread

OID-See: Giving Your OAuth Apps the Side-Eye

OID-See or BloodHound for OAuth in Entra: mapping consent, scopes, assignments, and trust signals into a graph so you can spot impersonation risk and OAuth sprawl.

Silent Drip: When Sync Becomes a Slow Leak
3 Dec 2025 · 9 min read · research · msrc

Silent Drip: When Sync Becomes a Slow Leak

An investigation into plaintext persistence and invisible data propagation through Microsoft Edge Drop.

The Unseen Variable: Identity, Agentic AI and the Path of Least Resistance
20 Nov 2025 · 21 min read · saas · cloud-security

The Unseen Variable: Identity, Agentic AI and the Path of Least Resistance

The Unseen Variable: Identity, Agentic AI and the Path of Least Resistance Every few years the industry rediscovers a truth that has always been hiding in plain sight. We rename it, formalise it, and publish new …

GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer: 2025 Study Resources Update
28 Sep 2025 · 3 min read · study · exam

GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer: 2025 Study Resources Update

Updated resources, exam lessons, and study guidance for the GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer certification in 2025