What You’ll Learn
This guide provides practical, immediately actionable steps for reducing risk across identity, endpoint, and cloud layers.
- Restrict admin access to managed devices only
- Limit who can perform destructive device actions
- Eliminate permanent high-risk administrative access (standing privileges)
- Restrict risky OAuth and app registration pathways
- Detect bulk wipe activity and automate response
- Improve resilience with backups, recovery, and emergency controls
The white paper also breaks down four common misconfigurations that enable these attacks, along with the first priority actions to materially reduce risk.
Why This Matters
A compromised Intune or Microsoft 365 admin account can be equivalent to a domain admin compromise in the cloud. Attackers can abuse legitimate tools, APIs, and permissions to wipe devices, modify policies, revoke access, and operate at scale. The white paper focuses on protecting that cloud control plane with the same rigor organisations once applied to on-premises domain controllers.
Who Should Read This Guide
This guide is for:
- CIOs and CISOs
- Microsoft 365 and Intune administrators
- Security operations (SOC) teams
- Cloud and identity security teams
- IT leaders responsible for resilience and recovery
