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Merill Fernando
Red Team Secrets: How we bypass Conditional Access (and how you can fix it)
58 minutes Posted Aug 29, 2025 at 10:54 pm.
The Story of the "Cloud Brothers" Blog 03:32 The Origin Story of Maester 07:39 Token Tactics V2 & Continuous Access Evaluation 09:43 How Conditional Access Bypasses Are Found 12:05 What is FOCI (Family of Client IDs)? 18:04 Hardening Your Conditional Access Policies 29:59 V1 vs V2 Token Endpoints Explained 38:19 Using Graph Activity Logs in Defender XDR 42:45 The New Group Source of Authority (SOA) 54:59 Workplace Ninjas US AnnouncementPodcast Apps๐ŸŽ™๏ธ Entra.Chat https://entra.chat๐ŸŽง Apple Podcast โ†’ https://entra.chat/apple ๐Ÿ“บ YouTube โ†’ https://entra.chat/youtube ๐Ÿ“บ Spotify โ†’ https://entra.chat/spotify ๐ŸŽง Overcast โ†’ https://entra.chat/overcast ๐ŸŽง Pocketcast โ†’ https://entra.chat/pocketcast ๐ŸŽง Others โ†’ https://entra.chat/rssMerill's socials๐Ÿ“บ YouTube โ†’ youtube.com/@merillx ๐Ÿ‘” LinkedIn โ†’ linkedin.com/in/merill ๐Ÿค Twitter โ†’ twitter.com/merill ๐Ÿ•บ TikTok โ†’ tiktok.com/@merillf ๐Ÿฆ‹ Bluesky โ†’ bsky.app/profile/merill.net ๐Ÿ˜ Mastodon โ†’ infosec.exchange/@merill ๐Ÿงต Threads โ†’ threads.net/@merillf ๐Ÿค– GitHub โ†’ github.com/merill Get full access to Entra.News - Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra at entra.news/subscribe
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In this episode of Entra.Chat, I dive deep with cybersecurity architect Fabian Bader into his research on bypassing poorly designed Microsoft Entraโ€™s conditional access policies and what you can do about them. We also cover the game-changing new Group Source of Authority feature that lets you finally manage synced groups in the cloud, and share insights from Fabianโ€™s work with MSRC to secure the platformโ€”donโ€™t miss this one if you want to stay ahead in cloud security!Subscribe with your favorite podcast player or watch on YouTube ๐Ÿ‘‡About Fabian BaderFabian Bader is a Cybersecurity Architect at glueckkanja, based in Hamburg, Germany. He is a well-known researcher in the Microsoft identity space, creator of the Cloud Brothers blog, and creator of the Maester and Token Tactics V2 tools. His work focuses on Microsoft Entra and the Defender suite, helping customers secure their cloud environments.LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabianbader/๐Ÿ”— Related Links* Fabianโ€™s Blog - https://cloudbrothers.info/* Entra Scopes - https://entrascopes.com/* Maester - https://maester.dev/* Token Tactics V2 - https://github.com/f-bader/TokenTacticsV2๐Ÿ“— Chapters 02:19 The Story of the "Cloud Brothers" Blog 03:32 The Origin Story of Maester 07:39 Token Tactics V2 & Continuous Access Evaluation 09:43 How Conditional Access Bypasses Are Found 12:05 What is FOCI (Family of Client IDs)? 18:04 Hardening Your Conditional Access Policies 29:59 V1 vs V2 Token Endpoints Explained 38:19 Using Graph Activity Logs in Defender XDR 42:45 The New Group Source of Authority (SOA) 54:59 Workplace Ninjas US AnnouncementPodcast Apps๐ŸŽ™๏ธ Entra.Chat - https://entra.chat๐ŸŽง Apple Podcast โ†’ https://entra.chat/apple ๐Ÿ“บ YouTube โ†’ https://entra.chat/youtube ๐Ÿ“บ Spotify โ†’ https://entra.chat/spotify ๐ŸŽง Overcast โ†’ https://entra.chat/overcast ๐ŸŽง Pocketcast โ†’ https://entra.chat/pocketcast ๐ŸŽง Others โ†’ https://entra.chat/rssMerill's socials๐Ÿ“บ YouTube โ†’ youtube.com/@merillx ๐Ÿ‘” LinkedIn โ†’ linkedin.com/in/merill ๐Ÿค Twitter โ†’ twitter.com/merill ๐Ÿ•บ TikTok โ†’ tiktok.com/@merillf ๐Ÿฆ‹ Bluesky โ†’ bsky.app/profile/merill.net ๐Ÿ˜ Mastodon โ†’ infosec.exchange/@merill ๐Ÿงต Threads โ†’ threads.net/@merillf ๐Ÿค– GitHub โ†’ github.com/merill Get full access to Entra.News - Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra at entra.news/subscribe