Discover the Microsoft Entra product family
Build a trust fabric between people, microservices, and things with multicloud identity and access products.

Azure Active Directory
Safeguard your organization with the identity and access management solution that connects people to their apps, devices, and data.

Microsoft Entra Permissions Management
Discover, remediate, and monitor permission risks across your multicloud infrastructure with a cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) solution.

Microsoft Entra Verified ID
Create, issue, and verify privacy-respecting decentralized identity credentials with an identity verification solution that helps you enable more secure interactions with anyone or anything.

Microsoft Entra Workload Identities
Manage and help secure identities for digital workloads, such as apps and services. Control their access to cloud resources with risk-based policies and enforcement of least-privileged access.

Microsoft Entra Identity Governance
Simplify operations, meet regulatory requirements, and consolidate multiple point solutions with a complete solution across on-premises and cloud-based user directories.
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Consistently recognized as a Leader by industry analysts

Microsoft recognized for fifth year
Microsoft is named a Leader in the November 2021 Gartner® Magic QuadrantTM for Access Management.1,2

A leader in Advanced Authentication
Microsoft is named a Leader in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Advanced Authentication for Identity Security.

A leader in Access Management
Learn why KuppingerCole rates Microsoft a strong positive across all product and leadership dimensions in Access Management.

2022 Company of the Year for Global Identity and Access Management
Frost & Sullivan has named Microsoft the 2022 Company of the Year for the Global Identity and Access Management industry.
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Frequently asked questions
Microsoft Entra a family of products that encompasses all identity and access capabilities. Within the Entra family are products such as Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), Microsoft Entra Verified ID, and Microsoft Entra Permissions Management. Microsoft Entra is the vision for identity and access that expands beyond identity and access management with new product categories such as cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) and decentralized identity.
Microsoft Entra is a comprehensive family of identity and access products.
Azure AD is now a part of the Microsoft Entra product family.
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2. Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Access Management, 01 November 2021, Henrique Teixeira, Abhyuday Data, Michael Kelley.