detect and respond to identity-based threats

microsoft defender for identity

Protect your identities by managing identity risk and detecting advanced identity-based cyber threats. Microsoft Defender for Identity (formerly Azure Advanced Threat Protection) helps reduce security risks, minimize potential damage, and provide a real-time view of attack timelines.

What is Defender for Identity?

Defender for Identity is a cloud-based security solution that learns, analyzes, and identifies normal and suspicious identity behavior within your organization. It helps you identify, detect, and investigate advanced threats, compromised identities, and malicious insider actions directed at your organization. This means that while an attack may go unnoticed for quite some time, Defender for Identity can detect and report threats in just minutes so you can have more peace of mind while you focus on what's most important–your business.

What can you do with Defender for Identity?

Bolster your defenses with Microsoft Defender for Identity posture assessments

Identify configuration vulnerabilities and get recommendations for resolving them with identity posture assessments that are displayed in Microsoft Secure Score.

Identify threats quickly and accurately with Microsoft Defender for Identity security alerts

Security alerts explain the suspicious activities detected by sensors on your network, and the actors and computers involved in each threat.

Highlight the identities most at risk in Microsoft Defender XDR

Combine insights from on-premises and cloud identities to get a user investigation priority score based on observed behavior and number of prior incidents.

Immediately respond to compromised identities with Defender for Identity action accounts

Take remediation actions by immediately restricting identities confirmed as compromised so they can't persist in your organization or be further exploited.

How can Defender for Identity help your organization?

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A Security IT team uses Microsoft Defender for Identity to identify suspicious activities, enabling them to proactively detect and investigate potential identity-based threats before they escalate.

Microsoft Defender for Identity provides the Security IT team with insights into suspicious activities and events, uncovering advanced threats, compromised users, and insider risks that could impact the organization.

Monitor and profile user behavior and activities

Defender for Identity monitors and analyzes user activities and information across your network, including permissions and group membership, creating a behavioral baseline for each user. Defender for Identity then identifies anomalies with adaptive built-in intelligence.

Microsoft Defender for Identity safeguards the organization from compromised identities, advanced cyber threats, and malicious insider actions, reducing the risk of unauthorized access and data breaches.

Investigate alerts and user activities

Defender for Identity is designed to reduce general alert noise, providing only relevant, important security alerts in a simple, real-time organizational attack timeline. Use the attack timeline view and the intelligence of smart analytics to stay focused on what matters. Also, quickly investigate threats, and gain insights across the organization for users, devices, and network resources.

A Security IT team uses Microsoft Defender for Identity security reports to detect users and devices authenticating with clear-text passwords, helping to mitigate security risks and enforce stronger authentication practices.

Microsoft Defender for Identity provides the Security IT team with real-time insights into suspicious activities and security events, enabling them to identify advanced threats, compromised users, and insider risks before they cause harm.

Microsoft Defender for Identity protects the organization from identity-based cyber threats, compromised credentials, and insider attacks, reducing the risk of unauthorized access and ensuring a secure authentication environment.

Protect user identities and reduce the attack surface

Microsoft Defender for Identity provides insights on identity configurations and suggested security best practices. Through security reports and user profile analytics, Defender for Identity helps reduce your organizational attack surface, making it harder to compromise user credentials and advance an attack.

Dive deeper into the Microsoft Defender XDR family

Microsoft Defender for Identity is a part of Microsoft Defender XDR, an enterprise defense suite that protects against advanced cyberattacks.

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