Over the past three years, I’ve led passwordless migration initiatives at three Fortune 500 companies, and I can tell you with confidence that eliminating passwords from a hybrid Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID environment is one of the most rewarding — and most underestimated — technical challenges in modern identity management. The theoretical appeal is obvious: no passwords means no credential compromise, phishing becomes exponentially harder and your security posture fundamentally shifts from “prevent breaches” to “assume breach.” But the reality of implementation in environments spanning on-premises and cloud infrastructure? That’s where the genuine complexity lives. Most organi...