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Conditional Access

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Technology explained

What is Conditional Access?

Conditional Access is Microsoft Entra's policy engine for allowing, blocking or constraining sign-ins according to identity and session risk. This profile connects the concept to KBY's practical engineering guidance.

Policies combine assignments such as users, applications, devices and locations with conditions and grant or session controls. Because policies are evaluated together, exclusions, report-only testing and emergency-access accounts are crucial to avoiding accidental lockout.

Primary purpose

Apply context-aware access controls to cloud application sign-ins.

Typical environments
Microsoft Entra IDMicrosoft 365
Typical use cases
  • Enforcing MFA for high-risk sign-ins
  • Blocking legacy authentication protocols
  • Restricting access by location or device compliance
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Parent technology

Microsoft Entra ID5+
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4 resources for Conditional Access

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Systems Engineering(1)

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Graduate Learning(1)

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Config Traps(2)

Recognise and avoid known failure modes.