Microsoft Entra
Secure access for workforce, customer, and agent identities to AI tools, apps, and resources across clouds and on-premises—from anywhere.
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OVERVIEW
Unified identity and network access solutions
Strengthen AI readiness by securing access to any resource for your workforce, customers, and agents.
- Block attacks before they happen and be prepared for increased sophistication and scale of attacks with AI-powered protection for identities across every digital experience and interaction.
- Prevent lateral movement and improve regulatory compliance by ensuring that your trusted employees, AI agents, and workloads can access the resources they need—when they need them.
- Reduce complexity and accelerate your Zero Trust path by extending adaptive conditional access policies across identities, agents, endpoints, devices, and networks.
- Boost workforce, partner, and customer satisfaction and efficacy with self-service and faster access. Increase security team effectiveness with unified controls and AI assistance.
PRODUCTS
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Secure access for any identity to any AI or resource, from anywhere.
Microsoft Entra ID
Protect identities and manage access to apps, devices, and data.
Microsoft Entra Suite
Enable secure employee use of all apps and AI by enforcing continuous, adaptive identity and network access controls
Microsoft Entra Agent ID
Manage, govern, and protect AI agents.
Security Copilot in Microsoft Entra
Get generative AI-powered assistance.
Plans and pricing
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Industry research and recognition
- Microsoft named a Leader for the ninth year in 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Access Management.1
- Learn about the KuppingerCole Identity Fabric paradigm and the ranking of Microsoft as an Overall Leader across product, innovation, and market dimensions.2
- Frost & Sullivan named Microsoft the 2024 Company of the Year in the Global Workforce IAM Industry.3
- Microsoft recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™ for Workforce Identity Security Platforms.4
Customer stories
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Frequently asked questions
- Microsoft Entra helps organizations secure access for workforce, customer, and agentic identities to any AI, apps, data, and multicloud or on-premises resources.
With the comprehensive identity and network access solutions from Microsoft Entra, your organization can confidently:
- Establish Zero Trust access controls.
- Secure access for your workforce.
- Secure access for your customers and partners.
- Secure access for agents and workloads.
- Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory)
- Microsoft Entra External ID
- Microsoft Entra Agent ID
- The Microsoft Entra Suite:
- Microsoft Entra ID Protection
- Microsoft Entra ID Governance
- Microsoft Entra Verified ID
- Microsoft Entra Internet Access
- Microsoft Entra Private Access
- Microsoft Entra is a comprehensive family of identity and network access products, spanning identity and access management for the workforce, customers, and non-human identities; identity governance; identity protection; verifiable credentials; and the foundational network access solutions for SSE.
- Azure AD is now Microsoft Entra ID. It’s the foundational product of the Microsoft Entra product family.
- To purchase Microsoft Entra, start with Microsoft Entra ID P1 or P2 license subscriptions, which can also be purchased as part of a Microsoft 365 E3 or E5 license.
For Microsoft Entra Suite, a subscription to Microsoft Entra ID P1 or a package that includes Microsoft Entra ID P1 is required.
Other products in the Microsoft Entra family can be purchased as add-on or standalone solutions.
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- [1]Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Access Management, Brian Guthrie, Nathan Harris, Yemi Davies, Steve Wessels, 11 November 2025.
Gartner and Magic Quadrant are trademarks of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates. Gartner does not endorse any company, vendor, product or service depicted in its publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s business and technology insights organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this publication, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. - [2]KuppingerCole, Leadership Compass: Identity Fabrics 2025, Martin Kuppinger, May 6, 2025.
- [3]Frost & Sullivan, Microsoft 2024 Company of the Year: Global Workforce IAM Industry, 2024.
- [4]Microsoft recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™ for Workforce Identity Security Platforms, Microsoft Security Blog, May 22, 2026.
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