THE STARTING POINT
Three things to get right.
- Review privileged roles and stale access with the responsible owner.
- Test policy changes with a limited pilot and documented recovery path.
- Keep human, service, and workload identities distinct in your review.
TRY THIS IN THE LAB
A question worth testing.
Use a dedicated test tenant to evaluate a Conditional Access policy in report-only mode. Compare expected access decisions with recorded sign-in outcomes.
Open the practice guideLeave a useful trail.
Write down your starting assumptions, scope, expected behavior, observed behavior, and evidence. A successful test should explain what happened and which question to investigate next.