AppGov Preventive Maintenance Webinar Series - Season 5. Episode 3

From App Sprawl to Control:  
Application Onboarding and Lifecycle Governance in Entra ID

📅Recorded on August 26, 2026 | 🌐On-Demand Webinar | Speakers: Nicolas Blank, Merill Fernando, and Alistair Pugin

Can you answer these about your own tenant right now?

  • 1. Do you know how many app registrations and enterprise apps exist in your tenant, and which ones are no longer being used?
  • 2. Does every application have a clear business owner and technical owner who are still with your organization?
  • 3. Can you identify which apps have high-risk or excessive permissions, and whether those permissions are actually still needed?
  • 4. Do you know which apps still rely on client secrets or certificates instead of managed identities or workload identity federation?
  • 5. If an app hasn't been used in 90+ days, do you have a process to review, disable, and securely remove it?
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What You'll Learn From the On-Demand Session:

  • What good application governance should establish at onboarding

  • How to define clear business and technical accountability for applications

  • Where lifecycle gaps create operational and security risk

  • How to govern credentials, permissions, and access throughout an application’s life

  • Which Entra ID controls support governance, and where additional visibility and processes are needed

 

Meet the Speakers:

NICOLAS-BLANK

Nicolas Blank

Founder, Group CEO, Architect, Podcaster, Author, MVP Office Apps & Services, MVP Azure, MCM & MCSM Messaging at NBConsult

Nicolas is the founder, as well as an architect, author, and speaker focused on Office 365 and Azure at NBConsult Group in South Africa, England, and Hong Kong. Nicolas is a Microsoft Certified Master for Exchange and Office 365, Microsoft MVP for Microsoft Office Apps and Services since March 2007.

Nicolas has co-authored the Microsoft Zero Trust Adoption Framework, published by Microsoft; “Microsoft Exchange Server 2013: Design, Deploy and Deliver an Enterprise Messaging Solution”, published by Sybex and available on Amazon; as well as authoring “Azure Site Recovery: IaaS Migration and Disaster Recovery,” published by Pluralsight.

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Merill Fernando

Merill Fernando

Creator of maester.dev and Entra.News and former Microsoft Entra Principal Product Manager

Merill Fernando is a former Principal Product Manager on the Microsoft Entra team and one of the most-followed voices in the Microsoft identity community. A developer and integrator at heart, he's behind some of the tools Entra admins reach for daily: maester.dev, cmd.ms, Graph X-Ray, and idPowerToys, his Conditional Access documenter. Through Entra.News he keeps thousands of practitioners current on everything moving across Microsoft Entra.

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Alistair Pugin

Alistair Pugin

M365 + Security MVP | Blogger | Podcaster | Speaker | Founder, CEO - YModernize

Alistair has worked in various capacities in multiple verticals from retail-manufacturing to government, spanning 50 to 50000 users utilizing all aspects of pure Enterprise Information Management.

Specialties: 20+ years pure IT, 16 years ECM, Livelink, Zylab, SharePoint, FileNet, etc. IT Pro dabbling in Dev, ECM Consultant, Suffering from Technophilia. Technology Architect specializing in Business Productivity Enrichment.

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