What Good Identity Hardening Looks Like

This write-up explains why identity compromise is the easiest and most lucrative attack path for adversaries — highlighting credential and session-token theft (including browser infostealers and fake CAPTCHA lures), MFA bypass scenarios, and a real-world BEC incident — and provides a pragmatic identity-hardening checklist (MFA enforcement, conditional access, exception tracking, device management, and monitoring) to reduce exposure and detect compromises earlier.