Migration patterns, Quest tooling notes, and operational lessons from the LeadThem team.
I've seen shops lock in a daily backup schedule without ever asking two questions: how much is our AD actually changing, and how much of that change are we willing to recreate if we have to restore from yesterday's backup? Those two...
In my experience leading integrations, from small teams of 10 to enterprises with 80,000 users, these non-human identities often fly under the radar until a migration forces the issue. They hold onto privileges that make a compromised...
Here's the pattern I see. A company has solid backups for servers, endpoints, and even SharePoint. Ask them what happens if a bad actor or a bad script wipes out conditional access policies, app registrations, or a few thousand group...
What strikes me is how these acquisitions signal a broader industry shift toward integrated, scalable security platforms. Customers are demanding more than point solutions; they want ecosystems that anticipate the next 12-36 months of...
The argument is one LeadThem Consulting has watched play out across hundreds of Active Directory, Entra ID, and Microsoft 365 migrations: identity security has been treated as three disconnected problems. Detection lives with the SOC....
Entra ID first, then Exchange, then SharePoint and OneDrive - fine on paper. What breaks in practice is everything downstream of identity: conditional access policies that don't survive the cutover, guest accounts pointing at the old...
