Michael Mardahl

Michael Mardahl

Senior Cloud Architect in Denmark, and a Microsoft MVP in Security, with Microsoft Intune and Identity & Access as my technology areas.

Most of my work sits where identity, endpoint management, and cloud security overlap. In practice that means helping organisations get out of "this is how we've always done it" and into something more secure that is also less annoying to run day to day.

Consulting through inciro

I work through inciro, a Danish consultancy doing Azure, Microsoft 365, security, identity, and AI adoption. Senior people, no layers of account management, and a strong preference for decisions you can actually defend six months later.

Want to hire me? Go through inciro's contact form.

What I actually do

  • Design and roll out passwordless and phishing-resistant authentication with Microsoft Entra ID and FIDO2.
  • Build security architectures that reduce real risk instead of filling in a compliance spreadsheet.
  • Lead modernization work across Intune, Azure, and Microsoft 365.
  • Turn confusing platform changes into guidance an IT team can follow without a translator.

Speaking and community

I speak at conferences and community events on security, identity, and modern work, and I publish what I learn here rather than keeping it in a private OneNote.

What you can expect from me

Strong opinions about password policies and half-finished MFA rollouts. Direct feedback when a design is more complicated than the problem it solves. And a fairly relentless push toward automation, because manual steps are where security quietly falls apart.

Personal

I live in Copenhagen. Father, neurodivergent, unapologetically nerdy. Nearly three decades in IT and I still like the part where something finally works.

Not afraid to commit. To Git repos, to passwordless, and to better security outcomes.