Microsoft Defender for Identity License - Monthly Commitment
Enhance your organization's security posture with Microsoft Defender for Identity, offering advanced threat detection and protection for user identities on a flexible monthly commitment.
- Identity Threat Detection: Gain visibility into suspicious activities and potential compromises targeting user accounts.
- Advanced Analytics: Utilize behavioral analytics and machine learning to identify and respond to emerging threats.
- Compliance Support: Meet regulatory requirements by strengthening identity security and access controls.
- Flexible Licensing: Adapt to changing needs with a monthly commitment, ensuring cost-effectiveness and scalability.
Product Overview
Product Overview
Microsoft Defender for Identity is a cloud-based security solution that helps protect your organization's identities by detecting and responding to advanced threats, insider threats, and compromised credentials.
This platform license provides access to advanced security features designed for IT Managers and IT Professionals within SMB and mid-market companies, integrating with existing Active Directory environments to safeguard user access and sensitive data.
- Real-time Threat Detection: Identifies malicious activities targeting user accounts and privileged access.
- Behavioral Analytics: Learns normal user behavior to flag anomalies and potential security breaches.
- Honeytoken Capabilities: Deploys decoy accounts to lure and detect attackers.
- Security Recommendations: Provides actionable insights to improve your identity security posture.
- Incident Investigation: Offers tools to investigate security alerts and understand the scope of an attack.
This monthly commitment license empowers SMB and mid-market teams to bolster their identity security without the overhead of enterprise-grade solutions.
What This Enables
Detecting Credential Compromise and Lateral Movement
Enable teams to identify suspicious login attempts and unauthorized lateral movement across the network. This helps prevent attackers from escalating privileges and accessing critical systems.
on-premises active directory, azure active directory, hybrid environments, endpoint detection
Identifying Insider Threats and Malicious Activity
Streamline the detection of malicious actions performed by internal users or compromised accounts. This capability is crucial for safeguarding sensitive data from unauthorized internal access.
user behavior analytics, access control monitoring, privileged access management, data loss prevention
Automating Security Alert Triage
Automate the process of triaging security alerts related to identity threats, reducing alert fatigue for IT staff. This allows security teams to focus on high-priority incidents.
security information and event management (siem), security orchestration, automation, and response (soar), incident response planning, threat hunting
Key Features
Suspicious Activity Detection
Proactively identifies unusual user behavior and potential security breaches targeting accounts.
Honeytoken Deployment
Lures attackers to decoy accounts, providing early warning of compromise attempts.
Security Recommendations
Offers actionable guidance to improve your overall identity security posture and reduce vulnerabilities.
Integration with Microsoft Security Stack
Seamlessly integrates with other Microsoft security tools for a unified security experience.
Monthly Commitment Licensing
Provides flexibility and cost predictability for managing security software expenses.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
This sector faces stringent regulatory requirements for data protection and identity security, making advanced threat detection crucial for preventing financial fraud and breaches.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Protecting sensitive patient health information (PHI) requires robust identity security to comply with HIPAA and prevent unauthorized access to critical medical data.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services handle highly confidential client data, necessitating strong identity protection to maintain client trust and comply with data privacy regulations.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Securing operational technology (OT) and intellectual property requires vigilant monitoring of user access and credentials to prevent disruptions and protect sensitive designs.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Microsoft Defender for Identity?
Microsoft Defender for Identity is a cloud-based security solution that detects and helps prevent advanced threats, insider threats, and compromised credentials in your organization's identities.
What does the monthly commitment mean?
A monthly commitment means you pay for the license on a month-to-month basis, offering flexibility to scale your security needs up or down as required.
Does this license require on-premises infrastructure?
Yes, Microsoft Defender for Identity requires sensors to be deployed on-premises to monitor Active Directory traffic. It also integrates with Azure Active Directory.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Medium — IT-assisted
Fulfillment
Digital Delivery
License keys / portal provisioning
Support Model
Zent Networks Managed
Renewal, add-license, and lifecycle management included
Subscription Terms
Cancellation
Cancel anytime — no charge on next cycle
You may cancel this subscription at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You will not be charged for the following billing cycle. Access remains active through the end of the paid term.
Returns
Subscription licenses are non-refundable
Digital software licenses and SaaS subscriptions cannot be returned once activated or provisioned. Contact a Zent Networks account manager if you have questions before purchasing.