Every M&A Deal Carries Inherited Risk. Here's How Microsoft Entra Secures It.

The Identity Blueprint · Aug 18, 2026 · 40m

This episode gives you the actual playbook for the risk you inherit in an M&A deal: how to migrate overlapping access groups without a naming collision, how to forensically expose shadow IT tenants before they become a backdoor, and why data migration servers keep becoming the entry point attackers actually use.In this episode, Ernie and Josée map the full M&A identity risk landscape — starting with the Marriott-Starwood breach, where an undetected intrusion sat inside the target company's network for years before and after the deal closed. We walk the actual mechanics of migrating groups and…