Defender for Identity benefits

Defender for Identity has the following key capabilities that help to streamline SecOps operations:

1. Proactive – Detect vulnerabilities proactively and prevent attacks before they happen.
2. Efficient – Automatic analysis and automatic response help SecOps teams to allocate their time to investigating critical issues.
3. Prioritize – By reducing false positives, Defender for Identity helps SecOps teams to prioritize spending their time on dealing with the real issues.

When it comes to identity protection, Microsoft Defender for Identity focuses on four main deliverables.

Prevent

Defender for Identity helps SecOps teams to identify hidden vulnerabilities in their environments. These are present mostly due to misconfiguration of services/products and a lack of system updates.

The Defender for Identity security posture assessment can detect vulnerabilities such as:

• Exposing credentials...