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Architect & Strategist

Alex Weinert

Identity security leader · Microsoft · 15+ years in identity
Focus areas
Account ProtectionMFAPasswordlessAttack Telemetry
Notable work
  • Published 'Your Pa$$word doesn't matter', reframing password policy around MFA
  • Drove Microsoft's published account-compromise telemetry into public guidance
  • Led identity security and protection for Microsoft's identity platform

Bio

Alex Weinert leads identity security work at Microsoft and is the author of a run of posts that changed how the industry talks about passwords, most famously "Your Pa$$word doesn't matter," which argued from Microsoft's own attack telemetry that composition rules and rotation policies barely move the outcome while multi-factor authentication does.

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Where their work shows up

The argument landed because of the data behind it: Microsoft sees attack traffic at a volume almost nobody else can observe, and publishing what actually compromises accounts made the case that a security team could take to its own leadership. It is a large part of why complexity rules and forced rotation fell out of favour, and why MFA and then phishing-resistant methods became the default recommendation. See password spraying, MFA fatigue, and what is passwordless.

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