Entra.Chat

About Entra.Chat

Entra Chat is a weekly podcast hosted by Merill Fernando and delivers practical insights for Microsoft administrators and security professionals through conversations with identity experts who've been in the trenches. Episodes feature seasoned Entra practitioners sharing real-world deployment experiences and Microsoft Entra team members who build the features you use daily. Get the inside track on best practices, implementation strategies, and upcoming capabilities directly from those who design and deploy Microsoft identity solutions. Join us for actionable takeaways you can apply immediately in your Microsoft 365, Azure, and Entra environments. --- Entra.Chat, its content and opinions are my (Merill Fernando) own and do not reflect the views of my employer (Microsoft). All postings are provided “AS IS” with no warranties and is not supported by the author. All trademarks and copyrights belong to their owners and are used for identification only. entra.news (https://entra.news?utm_medium=podcast)

Publisher

Merill Fernando

Category

news · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

10 Mar 2025

Latest episode

9 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

78 of 80 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   9 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Stolen Tokens, Agents and Universal CAE: What Global Secure Access Adds to Entra ID

   Host Merill discusses with Microsoft Entra PMs Alexander Pavlovsky and Marilee Turscak how Global Secure Access prevents stolen token attacks and secures AI agents.

2. 

   2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Your AI Coding Agent Is Creating Secrets You Don’t Know About

   Merill interviews Microsoft Principal Product Manager Arturo Lucatero about how AI coding agents create unknown secrets and the importance of secretless identity solutions.

3. 

   17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Active Directory Security Testing in Maester 2.2

   Microsoft MVP Sam Erde and Maester co-maintainer Mike Soule discuss Active Directory security testing with host Merill, revealing how Maester 2.2 offers 269 checks to improve your security posture.

Inside a recent episode

Stolen Tokens, Agents and Universal CAE: What Global Secure Access Adds to Entra ID

Published 9 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] But most of them were company anchor devices behind the firewall, right? And whenever internet access occurred, it occurred over that firewall. So centralizing the rules by which you can say, well, it's safe to go to this destination. It's not safe to go to this destination. It was very simple, right? Because you had the one firewall or a couple of firewalls where all those rules lived. And then for your field force that was allowed to take computers outside of the bounds of your castle, those folks typically had something like a VPN, where that VPN would be responsible for getting them access to the inside resources, private resources, like the internal services, if you will. […]

Who has been a guest on Entra.Chat

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Alexander Pavlovsky
• Marilee Turscak
• Arturo Lucatero
• Mike Soule
• Sam Erde

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

233,357

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

17 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 78 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

90

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

81

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Books guests

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