Microsoft Defender for Identity (ANNUAL)

Description

Microsoft Defender for Identity is a cloud-based identity threat detection and response solution. It actively helps organizations protect user identities across on-premises Active Directory, hybrid, and cloud-connected environments. It provides advanced visibility into identity activity, detects suspicious behavior and compromised accounts. Additionally it helps security teams investigate and respond to identity-based attacks. Examples of this are credential theft, lateral movement, privilege escalation, and domain compromise.

What’s Included with Microsoft Defender for Identity

Microsoft Defender for Identity includes powerful identity security capabilities designed to strengthen your security posture and reduce the risk of account compromise, including:

• Identity threat detection and response (ITDR) for on-premises Active Directory and hybrid identity environments
• Behavioral analytics and threat intelligence to identify suspicious user, device, and account activity
• Detection of identity-based attacks such as pass-the-hash, pass-the-ticket, reconnaissance, brute-force attacks, lateral movement, and privilege escalation
• Dedicated sensors for on-premises identity infrastructure including Active Directory Domain Controllers and other supported identity servers
• Integration with Microsoft Entra ID for broader visibility across hybrid identity environments
• Identity security posture recommendations to help identify vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and attack paths
• Investigation tools and incident context within the Microsoft Defender portal for faster response and remediation
• Automated response actions to help contain compromised identities and stop threats in real time
• Enhanced identity inventory and visibility across users, accounts, roles, environments, and identity-related assets
• Integration with Microsoft Defender XDR for correlated alerts, incident investigation, and unified security operations across identities, endpoints, email, apps, and cloud workloads

In conclusion, Microsoft Defender for Identity is designed for organizations that want deeper visibility into identity threats.  Additionally it delivers stronger protection for Active Directory. This includes hybrid identity environments as part of a modern zero trust security strategy.