Configuration drift: the new patch management crisis
Why configuration drift is becoming the new patch management crisis, and how continuous scanning catches the settings that quietly change. Published June 19, 2026. For more detail, see Configuration drift management.
About this video
Patching got processes, tooling, and a monthly rhythm; configuration security never did. This video makes the case that drift, the settings that quietly change between reviews, is following the same curve patching did twenty years ago, and needs the same answer: continuous, automated checking with a ranked queue.
It closes with what that looks like in practice: scheduled Senserva scans diffing every setting against the last known-good state across Microsoft 365, Intune, Defender, and Entra ID.
Where this video lives on senserva.com
- Configuration drift management (video on the page)
- Senserva Drift Manager
- Blog: security drift, the silent killer
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