Identity and access for a connected world
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Save up to 60 percent by using comprehensive Microsoft Security rather than multiple point solutions.1
Discover the Microsoft Entra product family
Build a trust fabric between people, microservices, and things with multicloud identity and access products.
Azure Active Directory
Safeguard your organization with the identity and access management solution that connects people to their apps, devices, and data.
Microsoft Entra Permissions Management
Discover, remediate, and monitor permission risks across your multicloud infrastructure with a cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) solution.
Microsoft Entra Verified ID
Create, issue, and verify privacy-respecting decentralized identity credentials with an identity verification solution that helps you enable more secure interactions with anyone or anything.
Microsoft Entra Workload Identities
Manage and help secure identities for digital workloads, such as apps and services. Control their access to cloud resources with risk-based policies and enforcement of least-privileged access.
Microsoft Entra External ID
Provide your customers and partners with secure access to any app.
Microsoft Entra Identity Governance
Simplify operations, meet regulatory requirements, and consolidate multiple point solutions with a complete solution across on-premises and cloud-based user directories.
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Consistently recognized as a Leader by industry analysts
Microsoft recognized for sixth year
Microsoft is a six-time Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Access Management.2, 3
A leader in Access Management
Learn why KuppingerCole rates Microsoft a strong positive across all product and leadership dimensions in Access Management.4
2022 Company of the Year for Global Identity and Access Management
Frost & Sullivan has named Microsoft the 2022 Company of the Year for the Global Identity and Access Management industry.
Stay current with identity and access news
Report
Identity is the new battleground
Get the latest identity-based threat intelligence and learn how to reduce your risk of falling victim to one of these attacks.
Blog
Microsoft Security blog
Read the latest on foundational identity and access strategies, best practices, and insights from Microsoft executives in this blog for chief information security officers.
Blog
Tech community blog
Get the scoop on the latest products and features, plus tips and tricks to more effectively secure access for all identities.
White paper
Guide to seamless secure access
Learn how to strike a balance between user productivity and secure access with the right approach to identity and authentication.
Frequently asked questions
Microsoft Entra a family of products that encompasses all identity and access capabilities. Within the Entra family are products such as Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), Microsoft Entra Verified ID, and Microsoft Entra Permissions Management. Microsoft Entra is the vision for identity and access that expands beyond identity and access management with new product categories such as cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) and decentralized identity.
Microsoft Entra is a comprehensive family of identity and access products.
Azure AD is now a part of the Microsoft Entra product family.
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2. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
Gartner is a registered trademark and service mark and Magic Quadrant is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and are used herein with permission. All rights reserved.
3. Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Access Management, Henrique Teixeira, Abhyuday Data, Michael Kelly, James Hoover, Brian Guthrie, 1 November 2022.
4. KuppingerCole Analysts, Leadership Compass: Access Management 2022, Richard Hill, April 26, 2022.
5. Forrester Consulting, The Total Economic Impact™ Of Microsoft Entra: Cost Savings And Business Benefits Enabled By Microsoft Entra, commissioned by Microsoft, March 2023. Results are for a composite organization based on eight organizations as stated in the linked study.


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