OVERVIEW
What is Microsoft Entra ID Protection?
ID Protection uses advanced AI and machine learning powered by trillions of signals across Microsoft Security solutions to block or challenge identity risks and enforce adaptive access policies.
- Help protect against identity attacks with intelligent, risk-based adaptive access policies that enable automated, real-time response for cloud, hybrid, and on-premises apps, devices, and identities.
- Detect and automatically remediate identity compromise across password-based and passwordless authentication methods.
- Strengthen security operations center (SOC) collaboration with market-leading Microsoft Entra and Defender, delivering real-time insights, autonomous protection, and unified threat visibility.
- Empower your identity team to stay ahead of cyberthreats and scale remediation efforts using Microsoft Security Copilot in ID Protection.
- Help protect agents and their access to resources by extending risk-based policies to AI agents in Microsoft Entra Conditional Access.
CAPABILITIES
Explore ID Protection features
Help protect your front lines with comprehensive identity protection for human, agent, and workload identities from anywhere.
Challenge access immediately when conditions change
Automatically block, prompt for multifactor authentication, and remediate risk for all authentication methods—including passwordless scenarios—when policy violations are detected.
Protect against modern identity attacks with real-time and behavioral detections
Identify threats such as leaked credentials, password spray attacks, and anonymous IP logins, using market-leading risk detections that analyze trillions of signals daily.
Autonomously investigate, summarize, and remediate risky identities and reduce the time to resolution.
Prevent agents from being compromised and protect their access to any resource
INTEGRATIONS
Native integrations across Microsoft Security
Use Microsoft Entra ID Protection across your Microsoft Security ecosystem.
Microsoft Entra ID Governance
Apply risk-based controls, automate privileged access, and strengthen governance across the identity lifecycle. ID Protection works natively with identity governance workflows connecting privileged identity management, access reviews, and entitlement management.
Microsoft Entra Suite
Help ensure only trusted identities can access sensitive resources. ID Protection works with broader products in Microsoft Entra Suite, such as Microsoft Entra Private Access, Identity Governance, and Verified ID to enforce adaptive access policies.
Microsoft Defender
Get alerts and detections that flow between platforms for deeper context and faster response. ID Protection works natively with Microsoft Defender for Identity and broader Defender tools.
Microsoft Sentinel
Visualize identity risks alongside broader cyberattack patterns, enabling faster triage and deeper investigation. Microsoft’s cloud-native solution for security and event management (SIEM) ingests ID Protection risk events for advanced threat correlation.
Security Copilot
Get contextual summaries, remediation steps, and accelerated incident resolution with Microsoft’s AI-powered security assistant, which uses ID Protection insights.
Microsoft Entra Agent ID Preview
Protect agent identity compromise with strong authentication and conditional access policies.
INSIGHTS
Get security that scales
See results from The Total Economic Impact™ Of Microsoft Entra Suite, a Microsoft-commissioned study by Forrester Consulting. Results are based on a composite organization.
PRICING
Features and pricing
Microsoft Entra Suite delivers unified Zero Trust access to cloud and on-premises apps with least privilege across public and private networks inside and outside your perimeter.
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Simplify your Zero Trust strategy by combining security service edge with identity governance, protection, and verification capabilities in Microsoft Entra Suite.
- Replace legacy VPNs and enforce conditional access with Microsoft Entra Private Access.
- Protect against online threats with Microsoft Entra Internet Access.
- Grant least-privileged access with Microsoft Entra ID Governance.
- Mitigate compromises with real-time risk assessment for sign-ins and users with Microsoft Entra ID Protection.
- Confirm user identities in real-time while protecting their privacy with Microsoft Entra Verified ID.
Microsoft Entra Suite requires Microsoft Entra ID P1 or any offer that includes Microsoft Entra ID P1 (such as Microsoft 365 Business Premium E3, F1, or F3; or Enterprise Mobility + Security E3), and you must be a global or billing admin. If you don't meet these admin role requirements, contact Sales.
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INDUSTRY RECOGNITION
Consistently recognized as a leader by industry analysts
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KuppingerCole Leadership Compass: Identity Threat Detection and Response
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KuppingerCole Leadership Compass: Access Management
Microsoft is recognized as an overall leader in access management by KuppingerCole. -
IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Integrated Solutions for Identity Security
Microsoft is recognized as a Leader in integrated solutions for identity security.
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CUSTOMER STORIES
Frequently asked questions
- ID Protection helps organizations detect, investigate, and remediate identity-based risks. These risks can be fed into tools, such as Microsoft Entra Conditional Access to make access decisions, or sent to an extended detection and response (XDR) or security information and event management (SIEM) tool for further investigation and correlation.
- ID Protection detects a wide range of sign-in and user risks to help identify suspicious activity, using real-time sign-in data and behavioral detections fueled by trillions of signals across Microsoft Security solutions.
- ID Protection is included in Microsoft Entra ID P2, Microsoft Entra Suite, or with a Microsoft 365 E5 license. Learn more about plans and pricing.
- ID Protection uses real-time sign-in data and behavioral signals to detect identity compromise. It flags risky users and sign-ins—such as password spray or token replay—and enforces controls based on risk level. This helps block threats early, reduce admin burden, and enables faster remediation with risk-based policies in Microsoft Entra Conditional Access.
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- [1]The Total Economic Impact™ Of Microsoft Entra Suite, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Microsoft, July 2025.
Forrester interviewed 10 decision-makers and surveyed 119 respondents with experience using Microsoft Entra Suite. For the purposes of this study, Forrester aggregated the experiences of the interviewees and survey respondents and combined the results into a single composite organization that is a global enterprise with 85,000 employees and $28 billion in annual revenue operating in highly regulated industries.
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