Protect Your Identities with Expert Guidance
Protect your organization’s on-premises Active Directory from evolving identity-based threats and insider attacks. Our Microsoft Defender for Identity integration services help you onboard cloud-based security across hybrid environments and emphasize proactive protection.
Go Beyond Basic Protection
Guided integration helps your team access the full scope of protection Defender for Identity can offer.
Threat Detection & Analytics
Defender for Identity uses deep packet inspection and behavioral profiling to detect identity-based threats and insider attacks and in real time, including:
- Pass-the-Ticket
- Pass-the-Hash
- Lateral movement
- Reconnaissance attempts
We help you set up and learn how to interpret Defender for Identity’s advanced analytics, so you’ll get crucial insights into risky users and devices.
Incident Response & Investigation
Identifying a threat isn’t enough; Defender for Identity can:
- Send you real-time, prioritized security alerts
- Launch incident investigations
- Automate responses to compromised identities
- Maintain a timeline view of identity-related incidents
- Enable fast responses and streamline investigations
Posture Management & Attack Surface Reduction
As you get set up, your AdaptivEdge consultant will ensure Defender for Identity is ready to:
- Enable proactive posture assessments
- Identify configuration vulnerabilities
- Provides posture recommendations
- Reduce your attack surface
Integration & Environment Coverage
One of the major advantages of working with AdaptivEdge is our wide scope of Microsoft expertise. We’ll help you ensure Defender for Identity:
- Integrates seamlessly with other Microsoft tools, like Defender XDR
- Offers a unified security experience across hybrid environments
- Extends cloud-based security intelligence to protect your on-premises Active Directory environment
Meet Your Defender for Identity Consultant
Ashton Briscoe is one of AdaptivEdge’s security experts. He brings a strong background in cybersecurity work to your Defender for Identity project.
Get to know Ashton more on our team page:
4 Steps to Integrate Defender for Identity
Explore the steps you’ll take with your AdaptivEdge consultant to defend against identity-based attacks.
- Assess Your Identity Landscape: We begin with a comprehensive review of your on-premises Active Directory and hybrid identity environments to identify potential lateral movement paths, configuration vulnerabilities, and security gaps.
- Deploy & Connect Sensors: Your consultant installs and configures Microsoft Defender for Identity (MDI) sensors, connects identity telemetry to the unified Defender XDR platform, and establishes continuous monitoring.
- Validate Detection & Response: We fine-tune analytics to accurately detect advanced behaviors like pass-the-ticket attacks and credential theft, ensuring all incident alerts route correctly to your security operations center (SOC) response systems.
- Strengthen Posture & Train Your Team: You’ll receive guidance on ongoing posture management using Secure Score, receive recommended remediations for identified risks, and get hands-on training on interpreting analytics dashboards for continuous monitoring.