Next Val Data

Data insights, analytics, and technical explorations.

I’m Dominick Ryan. As a Senior Systems and Data Engineer, I build reliable data transformations and cloud-native infrastructure. NextValData is my curated repository of academic and technical documentation—a personal archive shared in the hope that it helps others, while being just self-serving enough.

Latest Posts

Forever Pending: Why Access Reviews Are Important but Probably Not Going to Work

Why guest access reviews are inadequate and how to audit SharePoint for direct guest access.

Best Practices of JIT Access

Managing an Entra ID tenant requires removing the technical debt of permanent administrative permissions.

Modern LAPS: Transitioning to Native Security

Moving from legacy LAPS agents to integrated encryption and Domain LAPS members.

From my Reading List