Who's managing your non-human identities?

Published 3 months ago • 1 min read

Episode 423 - Non-Human Identities in
Microsoft Entra with Eric Woodruff and Chris Brumm

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The next episode of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro podcast has been released!

Most Microsoft Entra tenants have a blind spot, and it is not the accounts you are thinking about.

Non-human identities like service principals, managed identities, and app registrations often outnumber user accounts in enterprise environments, yet they receive a fraction of the governance attention. That is a problem, because attackers have noticed.

In Episode 423, Ben sat down live at Workplace Ninjas with Eric Woodruff, Chief Identity Architect at Semperis, and Chris Brumm, Cyber Security Architect at glueckkanja. Both are Microsoft MVPs in Security, and together they cover the full landscape of non-human identities in Microsoft Entra ID, from foundational concepts to active exploitation patterns to what is coming next with AI agent identities.

Here is what you will walk away with:

A clear understanding of what service principals are and why they are a preferred attacker target
Practical guidance on credential management and the risks of improper owner assignments
Why managed identities should be your default approach wherever your architecture supports it
What to watch out for in multi-tenant app configurations
How to start thinking about AI agent identities before that surface area gets out of hand

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