✦ Ground Truth ✦

The signal in the noise.

Real-world defensive engineering, battle-tested mechanics, and hard-won gotchas—straight from the field, written honestly, zero vendor fluff.

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Sentinel, end to end

The platform from the ground up — foundation, detect, respond, govern, hunt.

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Identity hardening

Temporary Access Pass, CAE, tiered PIM, and AiTM incident response.

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KQL Library

The investigation queries you reach for — grouped, filterable, copy-and-run.

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Recent field notes

EMAILOne auto-reply for 21 mailboxes, not 21 rulesOct 1 EMAILCleared as safe: a website-form phish that fooled two reviewsOct 1 ENDPOINT"Device authentication failed": hybrid join, the PRT and IntuneSep 22 DETECTIONWho can see what: Sentinel & Defender permissionsSep 15 DETECTIONGetting Intune logs into Sentinel — there's no connectorSep 15

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