Microsoft Copilot with Quest Identity Defense

Simplify security and accelerate response with the Microsoft Security Copilot integration for Quest Identity Defense (formerly Security Guardian). Address hybrid Active Directory challenges by clarifying complex issues with natural-language prompts, uncovering overlooked details from security findings, and supplementing human expertise with AI-powered assistance.

Elevate your hybrid AD and Entra ID security

To stay ahead of evolving identity threats, organizations need the intelligence to identify risk and the speed to stop attacks.

Quest Identity Defense is an AI-powered hybrid AD security solution that identifies identity risk, protects critical Tier 0 assets, and contains attacks before they spread.

Together, Microsoft Security Copilot and Identity Defense provide AI-driven insights that help teams investigate faster, respond more effectively, and maximize efficiency at any skill level.

Key Benefits

Clarity

Transform intricate security alerts into clear, actionable summaries, enabling faster, more informed decisions across your hybrid AD environment.

Speed

Leverage AI-driven insights to rapidly detect, investigate, and mitigate AD threats, ensuring your team stays ahead of adversaries with guided responses and automated task optimization.

Expertise

Enhance your team's proficiency by automating routine tasks and providing step-by-step guidance, allowing experts to focus on the most critical security challenges

Highlighted Features

Incident summarization

Distill complex security findings from Quest Identity Defense into concise summaries, enabling faster decision-making and response across your hybrid AD environment.

Impact analysis

Leverage AI-driven analytics from Microsoft Security Copilot, enhanced by Quest Identity Defense data, to prioritize response efforts by assessing the impact of incidents on systems, data, and users.

Guided response

Receive step-by-step incident response guidance from Microsoft Security Copilot, enriched with insights from Identity Defense, including recommended actions for swift resolution.

Microsoft Sentinel integration

Unlock faster, more intuitive access to Identity Defense incident findings within Microsoft Sentinel with Microsoft Security Copilot. Empower your team with richer contextual analysis and optimized security workflows.

Security reporting

Summarize any event, incident, or threat in seconds and prepare customizable, ready-to-share reports tailored to your audience.

Automated task optimization

Automate repeatable security tasks with Microsoft Security Copilot’s Promptbooks, which guide users of any skill level to navigate specific security processes using structured, customizable workflows, enhancing efficiency and consistency.

Knowledge Center

Datasheet: Identity Defense

Simplify and accelerate ITDR with a GenAI-powered hybrid AD security solution.

Active Directory and Entra ID are top targets of attackers, and for good reason. With compromised user credentials, a hacker can slip into the network and escalate their privileges to reach sensitive data and systems.

Cyberattacks are more sophisticated and frequent than ever, and they are increasingly focused on identity stores like Active Directory. To reduce risk, organizations are embracing identity threat detection and response (ITDR).

FAQ

Yes, the integration is designed to work seamlessly within the Microsoft Security ecosystem, including products like Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender XDR, and Microsoft Intune.

Additionally, the Microsoft Security Copilot integration can connect with other third-party security tools, as long as those tools also have plugins for Microsoft Security Copilot, enhancing your overall security posture by providing richer context and cross-product insights.

To use this integration, you'll need active subscriptions to both Identity Defense and Microsoft Security Copilot, as well as all the prerequisites for these products, such as compatible infrastructure and security configurations. Additionally, you’ll need to enable and configure the Identity Defense plugin within Microsoft Security Copilot to connect with Microsoft Sentinel and other security tools.

To use the Identity Defense plugin, you’ll need to enable it within the Microsoft Security Copilot interface. After enabling the plugin, you can configure it to connect with Microsoft Sentinel and other relevant security tools in your environment. Detailed setup and configuration instructions are provided within the Microsoft Security Copilot documentation and Quest support resources.

The Identity Defense plugin for Microsoft Security Copilot is free of charge. You’ll only need to maintain active subscriptions for Identity Defense, Microsoft Security Copilot, and Sentinel to access the full range of features and capabilities.

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