WHAT’S NEW
Enriched, contextual identity insights for your SOC
Empower your SOC teams with the insights they need to prevent, detect, and respond to identity-based cyberthreats within the context of where and how they work.
OVERVIEW
Collaborate across identity and security
Break down silos with consistent insights, tools, and workflows to help identity and security teams collaborate effectively and stop identity threats.
- Eliminate latency and prevent identity attacks with dynamic policies that access risk in true real-time and can be deployed across all your identities and apps.
- Powerful correlation with trillions of signals from across security domains provide greater visibility into cyberthreats.
- Quickly stop identity attacks and lateral movement with automated disruption and response capabilities with Microsoft.
PRODUCTS
Build your ITDR solution
Get powerful protection and visibility across your cloud, hybrid, and on-premises identities with products designed to work together.
Microsoft Entra ID Protection
Block identity compromise in real time with AI-powered security for cloud and hybrid identities.
Microsoft Defender for Identity
Safeguard your identity landscape with comprehensive detections and intelligent automation.
SCENARIOS
Build a modern identity threat detection and response practice
Remove gaps and deliver consistent protections for your identities and infrastructure, whether they’re human, non-human, in the cloud, hybrid, or on-premises.
Prevent attacks with our market-leading identity platform
Protect your organization with dynamic policies that deliver consistent authentication and protection across all apps and identities.
Unify identity protection and security for a more coordinated response
Consistent data, alerts and workflows are natively surfaced within Entra and Defender, fostering greater collaboration, actionable insights, and efficient response.
Dynamically adapt policies based on real-time risk signals
Spot sign-in anomalies and mitigate potential threats in real time, with UEBA behavioral analysis that triggers step-up authentication or blocks access entirely.
Go beyond alerts, see the full incident
Correlate identity alerts with signals across endpoints, email, collaboration tools, and SaaS apps to understand identity threats within their broader security context.
Automate security response and remediation
Detect and disrupt cyberattacks automatically to stop lateral movement and safeguard identities before damage is done.
Intelligently investigate and remediate risks
Autonomously investigate, summarize, and remediate risky identities and reduce the time to resolution.
WHY MICROSOFT ITDR
Modernize your identity defense with ITDR from Microsoft
Discover practical strategies to protect your organization from identity-based attacks and put ITDR into action with Microsoft.
INDUSTRY RECOGNITION
Consistently recognized as a leader by industry analysts
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KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for ITDR
KuppingerCole recognized Microsoft as an overall leader in ITDR.1 -
IDC MarketScape recognized Microsoft as a Leader
IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Integrated Solutions for Identity Security 2025 Vendor Assessment2 -
Microsoft has been named a Leader in XDR
The Forrester Wave: Extended Detection and Response (XDR) platforms, Q2, 20243 -
Microsoft is a Leader for the 8th year in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AM
Microsoft recognized as a Leader by Gartner for its Microsoft Entra in access management4
CUSTOMER STORIES
Learn why customers turn to Microsoft for ITDR
RESOURCES
Additional resources
Resource library
Cybersecurity and AI news
Discover the latest trends and best practices in cyberthreat protection and AI for cybersecurity.
Get ahead of cyberthreat actors
Explore security solutions that work together to help you stay ahead of evolving threats.
Frequently asked questions
- ITDR stands for identity threat detection and response. This emerging security focus area encompasses solutions designed to help prevent, detect, and respond to increasingly popular identity-related threats. Many identity attacks start when cybercriminals compromise credentials, typically through phishing or other social engineering strategies, but more recently, sophisticated cyberattackers have begun targeting the underlying identity infrastructure to exploit vulnerabilities in identity posture.
- Effective ITDR requires close collaboration between identity administrators and SOC teams. This partnership ensures organizations can move beyond siloed defenses and adopt a holistic approach to identity security. Modern SOC and identity teams are putting increased focus on their identity protection strategy and looking to better correlate their identity signals within their XDR platform for greater visibility into emerging cyberthreats.
- ITDR security refers to the processes, products, and solutions that protect identities from compromise. It starts by establishing a baseline for normal user behavior with UEBA, then uses AI to detect anomalies and uncover threats. When attacks occur, automation and predefined workflows help stop them quickly. Success depends on collaboration between identity admins, who manage posture and policies, and SOC teams, who respond to incidents and correlate identity signals across XDR platforms. Together, they continuously strengthen identity security to stay ahead of evolving threats.
- Microsoft ITDR capabilities are offered through the Microsoft Defender Suite, which provides identity and access management together with extended detection and response tools. It’s the most comprehensive and cost-effective way to access integrated identity security capabilities from Microsoft.
- Microsoft ITDR is a market-leading solution deployed through the Microsoft Defender Suite. With coverage across all identities, apps, and environments—both human and non-human—it integrates identity protection with security operations, allowing for enhanced collaboration between identity administrators and SOC teams. Microsoft ITDR uses real-time signal correlation from over 100 trillion daily signals across Microsoft Security to detect threats early and respond automatically with differentiating depth and visibility into your full security stack.
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- [1]KuppingerCole Leadership Compass Identity Threat Detection and Response: IAM Meets the SOC. Mike Neuenschwander, April 22, 2024.
- [2]IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Integrated Solutions for Identity Security 2025 Vendor Assessment, doc #US52037224, Emanuel Figueroa, Frank Dickson, Mark Child, September 25, 2025.
- [3]The Forrester Wave™: Extended Detection And Response Platforms, Q2 2024, Allie Mellen, Joseph, Blankenship, Sarah Morana, and Michael Belden. June 3, 2024.
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