Active Directory & Entra ID Audit Houston

Active Directory & Entra ID Audit

How We Run the Audit

On-prem and cloud, audited separately, ranked together.

On-prem AD and Entra ID separately: We audit each directory on its own terms and then review how they connect, because hybrid environments hide risk in the seams.

Stale accounts found: We find accounts for people who left and logins dormant for months but still enabled, because every one is a usable credential.

Privilege sprawl mapped: We list who holds domain and global admin and find the nested groups that grant it by accident, so the keys are accounted for.

MFA coverage checked: We confirm MFA on privileged accounts and find legacy authentication still allowed, the gaps attackers exploit first.

Service accounts reviewed: We find service accounts with non-expiring passwords and excessive rights, a favorite path for lateral movement.

Entra app permissions audited: We review OAuth apps and the permissions they were granted, often years ago, that reach your data without a password.

A Katy-based engineer walks you through it: One engineer performs the audit and explains what each finding means, so you get judgment instead of a raw export.

Get an Active Directory and Entra ID audit that names the accounts, groups, and apps that should not still exist.

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active directory and entra id audit // Houston SMBs

An Active Directory and Entra ID audit that cleans house.

Most directories were built years ago and have been quietly collecting stale accounts, nested groups, and forgotten delegations ever since. None of it shows up until someone uses it.

CinchOps audits on-prem Active Directory and Entra ID separately, names what should not still exist, and shows where one old account becomes an attacker’s entry point.

cinchops · identity audit● REVIEWED

13:20:09Active Directory · enumerating accountsadSCAN

13:36:52Inactive over 90 days · 38 still enabledadSTALE

13:58:34Privileged accounts · 6 without MFAentraNOMFA

14:21:18Nested group · grants unintended domain admingroupsESCALATE

14:44:01Service accounts · non-expiring passwordsadRISK

15:06:49Entra apps · 14 over-privilegedentraOVERPRIV

15:29:30Legacy authentication · still permittedentraLEGACY

16:02:08Findings ranked · privilege gaps firstreportRANKED

Accounts reviewedPrivilege gaps namedFindings ranked

// What CinchOps does

An Active Directory and Entra ID audit reviews the accounts, groups, and permissions that control who can reach what in your business. CinchOps audits on-prem Active Directory and Entra ID separately, finds the stale accounts and over-privileged apps that accumulate over years, and ranks the findings so the dangerous privilege gaps get closed first. Identity is the first thing attackers go after, so it is the first thing worth auditing.

1.9%

Of compromised accounts did not have MFA enabled

Microsoft

Of organizations have 250 or more over-privileged Entra applications

CoreView 2025 State of Microsoft 365 Security

Of breaches start with stolen credentials, the top initial access vector

Verizon DBIR 2025

// what the identity audit covers

Five ways a directory turns into a liability.

L1Stale and orphaned accounts

Accounts for people who left
Logins dormant for months, still on
Every one is a usable credential

Dormant

L2Privilege and admin sprawl

Who holds domain and global admin
Nested groups granting it by accident
More admins than you can name

Admin sprawl

L3MFA and authentication

MFA coverage on privileged accounts
Legacy authentication still allowed
The gaps that matter most

The front door

L4Service accounts

Non-expiring passwords found
Excessive rights flagged
A favorite for lateral movement

Lateral path

L5Entra app permissions

OAuth apps and their grants
Permissions nobody reviews
A path to data no password protects

Quiet access

// why CinchOps runs your audit

We audit identity the way attackers test it.

CinchOps audits Active Directory and Entra ID for Houston and Katy SMBs across engineering firms, manufacturing, law firms, and oil and gas, where directories were built a decade ago and have never been cleaned. We separate on-prem AD from Entra because the risks are different.

On-prem AD and Entra ID, audited separately

Hybrid environments hide risk in the seams. We review each directory on its own terms and then look at how they connect.

We name names

Findings list the actual stale accounts, over-privileged users, and risky apps, so remediation is a task list and not a research project.

Every finding is ranked

Results are sorted by risk, so the missing MFA on admin accounts gets fixed before the housekeeping items.

A Katy-based engineer runs it

One engineer performs the audit and explains what each finding means, so you get judgment instead of a raw export.

// clean the directory before someone uses it

Get an Active Directory and Entra ID audit that names the accounts, groups, and apps that should not still exist, from a Houston team that knows where attackers look first.

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