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Credit to Author: Vasu Jakkal and Joy Chik| Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 16:00:00 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n

We\u2019re announcing new capabilities to help accelerate your transition to a Zero Trust security model with the general availability of the Microsoft Entra Suite<\/strong><\/a>, the industry\u2019s most comprehensive secure access solution for the workforce, and the general availability of Microsoft Sentinel within the Microsoft unified security operations platform<\/strong><\/a>, which delivers unified threat protection and posture management. These innovations make it easier to secure access, identify and close critical security gaps, detect cyberthreats, reduce response times, and streamline operations.<\/p>\n

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Zero Trust in the age of AI<\/h2>\n
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Join us on July 31, 2024, to learn how to simplify your Zero Trust strategy with the latest end-to-end security innovations.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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The extraordinary advancements in technology that make our work lives easier and more flexible also create opportunities for bad actors seeking more effective ways to launch cyberattacks. A Zero Trust strategy is vital for helping keep your organization safe in an era when cyberattacks against passwords, networks, and applications continue to increase. According to Gartner\u00ae, \u201cAI enhancement can provide malicious code, and facilitate phishing and social engineering, which enables better intrusion, increased credibility, and more damaging attacks.\u201d1<\/sup><\/p>\n

A proactive Zero Trust security strategy<\/a> unifies defenses across identities, endpoints, networks, applications, data, and infrastructure with comprehensive security policies, pervasive threat protection, and governance. While individual tools are typically used to fulfill requirements across each Zero Trust pillar, a truly comprehensive strategy connects them together through a centralized access policy engine and integrated threat protection. This delivers defense-in-depth cybersecurity across your on-premises, hybrid, and multicloud environments.<\/p>\n

Buying individual solutions and building truly comprehensive architecture from scratch is a herculean effort for most organizations. We\u2019ve designed our security offering from the ground up to enable Zero Trust\u2014delivering built-in integrations with unified policies, controls, and automation to accelerate your implementation and strengthen your security posture.<\/p>\n

These announcements further simplify the implementation of a Zero Trust architecture across the full lifecycle from prevention to detection and response. The Microsoft Entra Suite enables organizations to converge policies across identities, endpoints, and private and public networks with a unified access policy engine. Our unified security operations platform brings together all the security signals your environment generates, then normalizes, analyzes, and uses them to proactively defend against cyberthreats.<\/p>\n

The Microsoft Entra Suite<\/h2>\n

Given that 66% of digital attack paths involve insecure identity credentials, the Microsoft Entra Suite plays a critical role in preventing security breaches.2<\/sup><\/p>\n

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Implemented alone, neither identity nor network security can address all possible access scenarios. The Microsoft Entra Suite unifies identity and network access security\u2014a novel and necessary approach for Zero Trust security. It provides everything you need to verify users, prevent overprivileged permissions, improve detections, and enforce granular access controls for all users and resources. Its native integration facilitates collaboration between identity and network teams. It also reduces your IT administrators\u2019 workload, because they can easily manage and enforce granular identity and network access policies in one place. In addition, Microsoft Entra skills in Microsoft Copilot for Security help identity professionals respond more quickly to identity risks.<\/p>\n

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The Microsoft Entra Suite can help you do the following:<\/p>\n

Unify Conditional Access policies for identities and networks. <\/strong>Security teams only have to manage one set of policies in one portal to configure access controls for both identities and networks. Now they can extend Zero Trust access policies to any application, whether it\u2019s in the cloud, on-premises, or even to the open internet. Conditional Access evaluates any access request, no matter where it\u2019s coming from, performing real-time risk assessment to strengthen protection against unauthorized access. And because the access policy engine is unified, identity and network teams can be confident that they protect every access point without leaving gaps that often exist between disparate solutions.  <\/p>\n

Ensure least privilege access for all users accessing all resources and apps, including AI. <\/strong>Identity professionals can automate the access lifecycle from the day a new employee joins their organization, through all their role changes, until the time of their exit. No matter how long or multifaceted an employee\u2019s journey, Microsoft Entra ID Governance<\/a> ensures they have the right access to just the applications and resources they need, which helps prevent a cyberattacker\u2019s lateral movement in case of a breach. Identity professionals and business leaders have an additional layer of access control with regular, machine learning-powered access reviews to recertify access needs, ensure compliance with internal policies, and remove unnecessary permissions based on machine learning-powered insights that help reduce reviewer fatigue.  <\/p>\n

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Improve the user experience for both in-office and remote workers. <\/strong>Employees enjoy a faster and easier onboarding experience, faster and more secure sign-in through passwordless authentication, single sign-on for all applications, and superior performance. They can use a self-service portal to request access to relevant packages, manage approvals and access reviews, and view request and approval history. Face Check with Microsoft Entra Verified ID<\/a> enables real-time verification of a user\u2019s identity, which streamlines remote onboarding and self-service recovery of passwordless accounts.<\/p>\n

Reduce the complexity and cost of managing security tools from multiple vendors. <\/strong>Since traditional on-premises security solutions don\u2019t scale to the needs of modern cloud-first, AI-first environments, organizations are seeking ways to secure and manage their assets from the cloud. With the Microsoft Entra Suite, they can retire multiple on-premises security tools, such as traditional VPNs, on-premises Secure Web Gateway, and on-premises identity governance.<\/p>\n

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