MDI’s strategic position in the cybersecurity ecosystem
MDI is designed to protect on-premises AD identities, our core foundation of the organization, and its primary feature is to monitor user activities, network traffic, Windows events, and entity behaviors continuously. It uses advanced algorithms and machine learning to detect unusual activities, such as lateral movement, privilege escalation, and reconnaissance attacks, which could indicate potential security breaches.
Today, it’s more common that we still use AD as our Source of Authority (SoA) and synchronize the identities to Microsoft Entra ID. It’s also still common that we are using Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) and Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS). These workloads must be protected at all times. Just because we are still required to keep using those legacy systems, they are critical workloads and should be treated as Tier 0 systems a.k.a. your most critical asset. We will...
