WHAT’S NEW
Understand identity risk with a unified score
Empower your teams with a single, explainable measure of risk that combines signals from across related accounts and Microsoft Security, so your teams have the full context and can focus on what's urgent.
OVERVIEW
Two teams. One connected loop.
Close the gaps between identity and security teams that attackers exploit. Threat insights strengthen access, access policies reduce burden on the SOC, and every incident hardens your defenses for next time.
- Use real-time threat insights to find risky accounts, exposed credentials and misconfigurations across cloud, on-premises and third-party identity systems, then fix the most critical first.
- See risk across identities, devices and apps in real time. Adjust or revoke access the moment a threat appears, before it turns into a SOC incident, without slowing down your people or your AI agents.
- When an attack gets through, link related alerts, contain the threat and remove the attacker automatically. Every incident feeds back to identity admins to close the paths the attacker would try next.
SCENARIOS
Build a modern identity security 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.
Assess identity posture, find exposures, and prioritize remediation.
Use identity security posture management (ISPM) to uncover identity risks, prioritize critical exposures, and guide remediation before attackers can exploit them.
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
Infuse security signals directly into the identity control plane to better spot potential threats in real time, with 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 with generative AI and agents to further reduce your mean time to resolution.
PRODUCTS
Build a complete identity security solution
Get powerful protection across your identity infrastructure, control plane, and identity threat detection and response with products that are designed to natively work together.
Identity security for Identity Admins
Manage identity posture and block identity compromise in real time with AI-powered security for cloud and hybrid identities, both human and nonhuman.
Identity security for the SOC
Prioritize and act on identity signals in context, with unified risk and enriched insights that connect identity threats to the broader incident.
WHY MICROSOFT IDENTITY SECURITY
Modernize your identity defense with identity security from Microsoft
Discover how Microsoft identity security uses ISPM to improve posture, real-time protection to prevent compromise, and ITDR to detect and respond to identity-based attacks.
INDUSTRY RECOGNITION
Consistently recognized as a leader by industry analysts
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KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Access Management
KuppingerCole recognized Microsoft as an overall leader in access management.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 identity security
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
- Identity security protects every identity in your organization, including people, service accounts, workloads and AI agents, from being misused or compromised. It covers three jobs: strengthening your identity setup before an attack, stopping compromise when someone signs in, and detecting and responding when an attacker gets in. It works best when identity and security teams share signals instead of working in silos.
- Look for an integrated solution that does the three jobs that matter:
- Improve posture by continuously finding and prioritizing identity exposures.
- Prevent compromise with real-time risk signals and adaptive access controls.
- Detect and respond to identity threats by correlating threats, investigating incidents, and automating response.
- Microsoft identity security posture management (ISPM) continuously assesses identity configurations, permissions, access paths, and other exposure signals across human and non-human identities. It surfaces identity risks in a prioritized view and provides recommended actions so identity and security teams can reduce critical exposures before attackers exploit them.
- Microsoft Entra evaluates identity, sign-in, device, application, and session risk in real time. Microsoft Entra Conditional Access can respond immediately by requiring multifactor authentication, enforcing stronger authentication, limiting a session, requiring a password change, or blocking access. These adaptive controls help stop risky access attempts before they become successful identity compromises across cloud and hybrid environments.
- 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.
- ISPM helps organizations get ahead of identity risk by continuously identifying and prioritizing weaknesses in configurations, permissions, and access paths before attackers can exploit them. Compromise prevention works in real time, evaluating risk as users sign in or access resources and using controls such as Conditional Access to challenge, limit, or block risky activity. ITDR focuses on detecting and responding to identity threats by connecting suspicious identity activity with signals across the security environment and supporting investigation, disruption, and remediation. Together, ISPM reduces the attack surface, compromis prevention blocks risky access, and ITDR detects and responds when suspicious activity or an attack emerges.
- Microsoft identity security capabilities are available across the Microsoft Entra Suite and Microsoft Defender Suite. Together, they help organizations improve identity posture, prevent compromise in real time, and detect and respond to identity-based attacks. Contact sales to identify the right combination for your environment and licensing needs.
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- [1]KuppingerCole Leadership Compass Access Management. Alejandro Leal, June 12, 2025.
- [2]IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Integrated Solutions for Identity Security 2025 Vendor Assessment, doc #US52037224, Emanuel Figueroa, Frank Dickson, Mark Child, September 25, 2025.
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The Forrester Wave™: Extended Detection And Response Platforms, Q2 2026, Allie Mellen and three contributors, June 16, 2026.
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