Modern 42 engineers hardening a Microsoft Entra ID tenant for an Australian enterprise

Engineering & Delivery

Securing your Microsoft Entra ID.

Microsoft Entra ID is the foundation of your organisation's digital identity. It connects people, partners, and customers to the systems and data they need. Strengthen your identity foundation with proven design, deployment, and governance expertise.

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100+IAM & PAM projects

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Why it matters

Identity is the new perimeter.

Traditional network boundaries have become increasingly flexible with cloud adoption, remote workforces, and mobile access. Your organisation's resources are everywhere, increasing your digital footprint and exposure to identity-based threats.

In a Zero Trust architecture, identity verification is the cornerstone of every security decision. Securing identities means securing the front door to your business, including applications, data, and critical infrastructure.

Securing your Entra ID is not a set-and-forget proposition. Modern 42 partners with you to ensure a healthy and resilient configuration, an appropriate framework to retain that posture, and continuous visibility into the effectiveness of your identity perimeter.

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Modern 42 engineers securing Microsoft Entra ID configuration for enterprise clients

Industry Research90%

of organisations experienced an identity-related breach in the past year

2023 Trends in Securing Digital Identities/Identity Defined Security Alliance

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Our Entra ID services

Securing Entra ID is not a set-and-forget job.

You need to work at ensuring your configuration remains robust, provides coverage, and does not have gaps.

Conditional Access Review and Framework

We review your Conditional Access policies to identify bypass risks and coverage gaps, then design and document a framework that ensures all new or modified policies remain robust and do not weaken your security posture. Start with our Conditional Access Review advisory service, or validate your policies with our Conditional Access Policy testing toolkit.

Conditional Access Reporting

Establish continuous monitoring, reporting, and alerting for your Conditional Access policies. Keep your identity perimeter visible, compliant, and resilient.

Identity Lifecycle Management

Joiner, mover, leaver automation driven by your HR source of truth. Ensure accounts are provisioned, updated, and deprovisioned consistently across Entra ID and connected systems.

Application Governance Dashboard

Gain visibility into legacy protocols, highly privileged service principals, expiring credentials, and workload identity risks. Dashboards keep your environment aligned to your ICT policy controls.

Engineering and Configuration

Our engineers deploy and configure in accordance with your business and technical design. Modern 42 is recognised by Microsoft as an IAM specialist partner.

Entra ID Operating Model

Too many cooks spoil the broth when locking down Entra ID. Our service design team helps you define your operating model, standard operating procedures, and RACIs to ensure clear accountability.

Global Secure Access

Zero Trust network access through Microsoft Entra. Replace traditional VPN with identity-aware, Conditional Access-integrated connectivity for private applications and internet traffic.

Access Reviews

Periodic entitlement reviews to ensure users retain only the access they need. We configure and operationalise access review campaigns across groups, applications, and privileged roles.

B2B Inbound and Outbound Collaboration

Configure cross-tenant access policies, external identity federation, and guest lifecycle management. Enable secure collaboration with partners and suppliers without compromising your security posture.

Phishing Resistant MFA Uplift

Uplift your authentication posture by rolling out phishing resistant MFA methods such as FIDO2 security keys, Windows Hello for Business, and certificate-based authentication. We assess your current MFA landscape, plan the migration path, and enforce phishing resistant strengths through Conditional Access.

Entra Verified ID

Strengthen help desk identity verification with Entra Verified ID. Reduce the risk of social engineering attacks by enabling cryptographic proof of identity before account recovery or privileged actions.

Our Team

Microsoft Entra certified team.

Modern 42 is a Microsoft Solutions Partner with a specialisation in Identity and Access Management. Our engineers hold current certifications across Microsoft Entra ID, Azure Security, and the broader Microsoft security stack.

This partnership drives our team to maintain industry-leading certifications and technical expertise to build secure and robust Microsoft Entra ID and Active Directory environments. For organisations that need design-level guidance before engineering, our architecture advisory service provides the foundation.

Microsoft Solutions Partner - Identity and Access Management Specialisation

M42 LabsSecurity Research Division

Building secure IAM & PAM by day. Testing their boundaries by night.

M42 Labs is where we go beyond the brief. Our security research team hunts for vulnerabilities in the enterprise identity platforms we work with daily and responsibly discloses them to make our clients and the broader community safer. Explore our CVEs, deep-dives, and original research.

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Modern 42 security researchers investigating Entra ID vulnerabilities and identity platform security

Case Studies

See the work delivered

Comparable engagements we have delivered. Client names are withheld; the work is not.

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Comprehensive Entra Security Review and Ongoing Partnership with a Global Financial Services Group

A global financial services group operating across multiple international markets engaged Modern 42 for an independent security review of its Microsoft Entra environment. What began as a focused assessment has since evolved into a strategic, ongoing partnership.

Entra ID + M365 assessedCA framework deliveredOngoing blended team

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Modernising Cloud Identity for a Federal Government Agency

An Australian Government agency modernising its operating environment partnered with Modern 42 to consolidate and modernise its identity systems.

Phased app migrationModern authentication4 embedded specialists

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Building a Modern IAM Practice for a Leading Australian University

A leading Australian research university partnered with Modern 42 over multiple years to establish its Identity and Access Management capability from the ground up.

AD FS decommissionedMFA across faculty & studentsBlended team model

Disaster recovery

Recover Entra ID without starting from scratch.

Hardening lowers the odds of a bad change. Disaster recovery decides how long one lasts. We plan Entra ID recovery in three layers, so a mangled Conditional Access policy, a compromised admin session or a deleted app registration has a tested way back.

Entra Backup and Recovery

Microsoft's native service keeps seven days of immutable daily backups of users, groups, applications, Conditional Access policies and key tenant policies. We assign the backup roles, test a restore and write it into your incident runbook. Our guide to Entra ID backup and recovery covers what it will and won't restore.

Applications as code

Native backup can't bring back a hard-deleted app registration or anything older than its seven-day window. We declare app registrations, service principals and groups as Bicep templates for Microsoft Entra ID, so you redeploy from a reviewed, version-controlled definition rather than from memory.

Tenant configuration baselines

Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance and its Tenant Configuration Management APIs compare your tenant with a known-good baseline and report drift property by property. We define the baseline, schedule the monitors and archive the snapshots, which Microsoft deletes after seven days, so your record of good configuration outlasts the backup window.

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FAQ

Common questions

Everything you need to know about securing your Microsoft Entra ID environment with Modern 42.

Is securing Entra ID a one-off project?

No. Securing Entra ID is not a set-and-forget exercise. Your tenant configuration changes as your organisation grows, new applications are onboarded, and Microsoft releases new capabilities. We help you establish frameworks and operating models that keep your posture strong over time.

Do we need to start from scratch?

No. Most engagements begin with a review of your current configuration. We identify gaps, misconfigurations, and quick wins before recommending any changes. We work with what you have and improve it.

Can you help us build a Conditional Access framework?

Yes. We design and document Conditional Access policy frameworks that ensure new or modified policies remain robust and do not weaken the security posture of other applications. This includes naming conventions, policy groupings, exclusion governance, and testing procedures.

Do you bring your own IP to engagements?

We don't like to reinvent the wheel. If we have existing IP that covers your requirements, we will use it and the price will reflect that. We would rather spend time tailoring a proven approach to your environment than building the same document from scratch.

What about application governance?

Application governance is critical to securing Entra ID. We help you gain visibility into legacy protocols, highly privileged service principals, expiring credentials, and workload identity risks. Dashboards and alerts keep your environment aligned to your ICT policy controls.

Do you provide ongoing support?

Yes. We offer managed identity services for organisations that want ongoing operational support for their Entra ID environment. This includes monitoring, configuration management, and incident response.

Does Application Governance cover Agent IDs?

Yes. As organisations adopt agentic AI and agent blueprints, governing workload identities extends to AI agents. Our application governance approach covers Agent IDs alongside service principals and managed identities, ensuring your AI agents operate within the same security and compliance boundaries as the rest of your identity estate.

Can you help us with our Entra and Defender licensing?

Yes. As a Microsoft Solutions Partner, we can advise on the right Entra ID and Defender licensing for your organisation. We help you understand which features require which licence tiers, identify where you may be over or under-licensed, and ensure you are getting value from the capabilities you are paying for.

Do you do Microsoft Entra ID Conditional Access and MFA consulting in Australia?

Yes. Modern 42 is a Microsoft Solutions Partner with the Identity and Access Management (IAM) Specialisation. We actively conduct security research on Conditional Access, contributing to the broader security community's understanding of how these policies protect organisations. We hold the IAM Specialisation, and we are 100% Australian-owned and operated.

What is Microsoft Entra ID?

Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) is Microsoft's cloud-based identity and access management service. It is the core identity platform that controls who can access your organisation's applications, data, and resources. Entra ID handles authentication (proving who you are) and authorisation (determining what you can access) for every user, device, and workload connecting to Microsoft 365, Azure, and thousands of third-party applications. As the foundation of Microsoft's Zero Trust security model, Entra ID is a critical piece of your organisation's security infrastructure — misconfigurations or gaps in your Entra ID tenant can expose your entire environment to identity-based attacks. Modern 42's Secure Entra ID service ensures your tenant is hardened, well-governed, and continuously monitored.