Security News > 2022 > October > If someone tries ransacking your Windows network, it's a bit easier now to grok in Microsoft 365 Defender

Microsoft is bringing Azure Active Directory Identity Protection alerts to Microsoft 365 Defender to seemingly help IT folks thwart criminals infiltrating corporate networks via compromised users.

For one thing, this means that if you want to find out the role an Azure AD identity played in an intrusion, you can now do so from one place, Microsoft 365 Defender, saving you from having to check your Azure portal, according to Microsoftie Idan Pelleg.

Identity Protection alerts can be configured to trigger when it appears one or more user accounts have been compromised, based on their behavior, location, and other factors.

"Identity Protection alerts are now correlated into related incidents along with alerts from the other security domains, and can be reviewed directly in Microsoft 365 Defender for a full view of the end-to-end attack," Pelleg explained on Tuesday.

Azure AD Identity Protection apparently takes in "Trillions of detection signals" to spot compromised identities; it can generate warnings for, among other things, accounts using leaked credentials, suspicious forwarding of email, and logins coming from unexpected IP addresses and locations.

With these alerts, organizations can suspend specific accounts to block an attack in progress and limit the impact, confirm a user has been compromised and tag them within Identity Protection as high risk, and have them change their password.

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