# Microsoft Defender for Identity: Integration & Support

## 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 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
- Provide 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.

1. **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.
2. **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.
3. **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.
4. **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.