Microsoft Defender for Identity
MDI exists to protect organizations’ hybrid identities and is an evolution of Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA). Unlike ATA, MDI is a cloud-first service, abstracting away much of the overhead infrastructure requirements administrators face. In this section, we will explore the problems MDI fights against and how it does so.
The rise and risks of Active Directory
In enterprise IT, on-premises AD is still ubiquitous. First released in Windows 2000 Server, AD Domain Services (AD DS) soon established dominance over its competitors as the go-to directory service for organizations of any scale. With Microsoft’s interests and focus shifting towards Azure, Microsoft 365, and cloud resources, on-premises AD has not seen much development for the last decade, though it is still a supported platform. The trend is towards Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), Intune, and other cloud services; however, most organizations, particularly those at scale...