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 Entra.
- 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.
Microsoft 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 ID Protection is offered as part of Microsoft Entra Suite.
(Annual subscription—auto renews)
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Microsoft Entra Suite delivered 131% ROI by unifying identity and network access.*
Users benefit from:
Users benefit from:
- Continuous, adaptive Conditional Access across identities, endpoints, apps, and networks.
- Identity Governance to enforce least privilege access and automate access lifecycles
- Secure Web and AI Gateway to apply identity centric controls to web and AI traffic
- Real-time risk detection using unified identity and network signals
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Secure access for any identity to any AI or resource.
INDUSTRY RECOGNITION
Consistently recognized as a leader by industry analysts
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KuppingerCole Leadership Compass: Identity Threat Detection and Response
Microsoft is recognized as an overall leader in the identity threat detection and response market by KuppingerCole. -
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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- [*]The Total Economic Impact™ Of Microsoft Entra Suite, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Microsoft, July 2025. Results are over three years for a composite organization based on interviewed and surveyed customers.
- [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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