Top Security Risks to Watch for in Shifting to Hybrid Identity Management

Syncing Domain Admins into Entra ID lets attackers pivot from compromised on-prem AD to the cloud, and back via password writeback. CIS and Microsoft advise keeping privileged admin accounts cloud-only.

Semperis argues AI-driven attacks are outpacing identity teams as machine identities outnumber human ones 10:1, and urges building organization-wide cyber resilience around hybrid identity protection before the next crisis.

Semperis found Entra ID's Directory.ReadWrite.All permission can be abused to escalate privileges, disrupt services, or take over a tenant—the Hidden Consent Grant attack, rated potentially severe.

Hybrid attacks pivot between Entra ID and on-prem AD; Microsoft flagged a broken barrier between on-prem and cloud admin. Shows how DSP detects and auto-remediates changes across both environments.

MFA for AD is challenging: native support is smartcards only, so organizations layer Windows Hello for Business or Duo on endpoints. Covers on-prem and hybrid options including Entra Connect.

Four reasons to improve Entra ID recoverability: widespread misconfigurations, the recycle bin's limited 30-day protection, hard-deleted objects like service principals, and hybrid attack-path gaps.