Defender Experts for XDR offers a range of capabilities: 

• Managed detection and response: Let our expert analysts manage your Microsoft Defender XDR incident queue and handle triage, investigation, and response on your behalf.  
• Proactive threat hunting: Extend your team’s threat hunting capabilities and prioritize significant threats with Defender Experts for Hunting built in. 
• Live dashboards and reports: Get a transparent view of our operations conducted on your behalf, along with a noise-free, actionable view of prioritized incidents and detailed analytics. 
• Proactive check-ins: Benefit from remote, periodic check-ins with your named service delivery manager (SDM) team to guide your MXDR experience and improve your security posture. 
• Fast and seamless onboarding: Get a guided baselining experience to ensure your Microsoft security products are correctly configured.

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Cyberattacks detected by Defender Experts for XDR

In the first cyberattack, Defender Experts for XDR provided detection, visibility, and coverage under what Microsoft Threat Intelligence tracks as the threat actor Purple Typhoon. From the early steps in the intrusion, our team alerted the customer that 11 systems and 13 accounts were compromised via a malicious Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) session, leveraging a Dynamic Link Library (DLL) Search Order Hijacking on a legitimate Notepad++ executable. As is common with this threat actor, the next cyberattack, established a Quasar RAT backdoor triggering keylogging, capturing credentials for the domain admin. After the loaders were executed, scheduled tasks were used to move laterally, execute discovery commands on internal network areas, and complete credential theft dumping.       

For the second cyberattack, which used BlackCat ransomware, Defender Experts for XDR detected and provided extensive guidance on investigation and remediation actions. The BlackCat ransomware, also known as ALPHV, is a prevalent cyberthreat and a prime example of the growing ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) gig economy. It’s noteworthy due to its unconventional programming language (Rust), multiple target devices and possible entry points, and affiliation with prolific threat activity groups. While BlackCat’s arrival and execution vary based on the actors deploying it, the outcome is the same—target data is encrypted, exfiltrated, and used for “double extortion,” where attackers threaten to release the stolen data to the public if the ransom isn’t paid. This attack used access broker credentials to perform lateral movement, exfiltrate sensitive data via privileged execution, and execute ransomware encryption malware.    

In both cyberattacks, our team focused on providing focused email, in-product focus to guide the customer, and in a real world cyberattack, our service and product would take disruption actions to stop the cyberattack.

Comprehensive threat hunting, managed response, and product detections 

With complex cyberattacks, security operations teams need robust guidance on what is happening and how to prioritize remediation efforts. Throughout this evaluation, we provided over 18 incidents, 196 alerts, and enriched product detections with human-driven guidance via email and in product experiences using Managed responses. This includes a detailed investigation summary, indicators of compromise (IOCs), advanced hunting queries (AHQs), and prioritized remediation actions to help contain the cyberthreat. Our world class hunting team focuses on providing initial response to a cyberattack, then iterations on updates based on new threat intelligence findings and other enrichment.   

Figure 1. The incident and alerts are tagged with Defender Experts and detailed analysis provided under view Managed response.

Figure 2. Managed response showing details of investigation summary, IOCs, and TTPs.

Figure 3. Managed response focused remediation one-click actions such as blocking indicator, stopping a malicious process, and resetting passwords.

AI-driven attack disruption with Microsoft Defender XDR   

As the second cyberattack leveraged BlackCat ransomware, Microsoft Defender XDR’s attack disruption capability automatically contained the threat and then followed up with hunter guidance on additional containment. This capability combines our industry-leading detection with AI-powered enforcement mechanisms to help mitigate cyberthreats early on in the cyberattack chain and contain their advancement. Analysts have a powerful tool against human-operated cyberattacks while leaving them in complete control of investigating, remediating, and bringing assets back online. 

Figure 4. A summary attack graph, managed responses and attack disruption automatically handling this ransomware threat.

Seamless alert prioritization and consolidation into notifications for the SOC 

We provide prioritization and focus for a typical customer’s SOC team using tags and incident titles with Defender Experts where we enrich product detections. In addition, a dedicated SDM will conduct periodic touchpoints with customers to share productivity and service metrics, provide insights on any vulnerabilities or changes in their environment, solicit feedback, and make best practices recommendations. Our customers see a reduction in total incident volume over time, improvements in security posture, and overall lower operational overhead. Learn how Defender Experts helps Westminster School.  

Figure 5. Summary of all incidents and Defender Experts tag to help filter and prioritize for customers.

Commitment to Microsoft MXDR partners 

We continue our commitment to support our partners in our Microsoft-verified MXDR program. We know that a single provider can’t meet the unique needs of every organization, so we frequently collaborate with our ecosystem of partners to provide customers the flexibility to choose what works best for them—and to leverage those trusted relationships for the best outcomes and returns on their investment. 

We acknowledge that there are areas for discussion and enhancement, but we will take these as a valuable learning opportunity to continuously improve our products and services for the customers we serve. We appreciate our ongoing collaboration with MITRE as the managed services evaluation process evolves with the growing cyberthreat landscape. We thank MITRE Engenuity for the opportunity to contribute to and participate in this year’s evaluation. 

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Today, we are excited to announce that Microsoft has been named a leader in The Forrester Wave: Extended Detection and Response (XDR) platforms, Q2, 2024, with the highest scores in the strategy, current offering, and market presence categories. Microsoft Defender XDR was rated the highest possible in 15 out of 22 evaluation criteria, including Endpoint Native Detection, Surface Investigation, Threat Hunting, Analyst Experience, Vision, and Innovation.

Forrester states that “Microsoft is refining the most complete XDR offering in the market today,” and called out “its dedication to innovation is demonstrated by its percentage of the R&D budget by revenue, which rivals the most innovative vendors in security.”

We believe Forrester’s recognition showcases that Microsoft Defender XDR is the broadest native XDR solution on the market and that our most recent additions of Microsoft Defender for Cloud data and Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management data are critical to give the SOC access to end-to-end data. Its incident-level visibility, automatic attack disruption of advanced attacks, and accelerated detection and response now work across endpoints, Internet of Things (IoT), operational technology (OT), on-premises and cloud identities, email and collaboration tools, software as a service (SaaS) apps, cloud workloads, and data insights.

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Get end-to-end protection with Microsoft’s unified security operations platform

Native breadth is critical to an industry-leading XDR solution, and with Microsoft Defender XDR coverage, organizations get free data ingestion for more workloads than any other can provide. But we understand that customers need to be able to bring together security signals from many sources. This is why we built the security operations platform—by combining the full capabilities of XDR, security information and event management (SIEM), exposure management, generative AI, and threat intelligence. Having these critical capability sets in a single place and operating across all relevant data defeats security tools silos while empowering security teams with unified, comprehensive features that apply to multiple use cases.

A unified platform. The unified security operations platform enables customers to reap the benefits of both SIEM and XDR through incident level response, flexible reporting, automated workflows, and hunting across both first- and third-party data sources. In the private preview, customers saw up to an 80% reduction in incidents, leveraging the powerful correlation across both XDR and SIEM data.² With attack disruption for SAP, the platform will automatically disable access to both the SAP and Microsoft accounts during a financial fraud attack—providing critical protection for a platform that houses extremely sensitive data.

Generative AI embedded. Microsoft Copilot for Security is an industry-first generative AI solution that enables security teams to simplify processes like incident remediation and guided response, reverse engineer malware code, and even uplevel junior analysts by generating Kusto Query Language (KQL) queries using natural language. Embedded directly into the investigation experience, Copilot for Security enables the SOC to automate repetitive tasks and facilitate more informed decision-making during complex security incidents.

Disrupts advanced attacks faster than any other platform. In a world where AI can be used for both good and evil, the importance of using it to fortify organizational defenses becomes more critical than ever. In the last year, 75% of security professionals witnessed an increase in attacks with 85% attributing this rise to bad actors using generative AI.³ This is why Microsoft Security continues to invest in AI. Automatic attack disruption in Defender XDR uses the power of AI and machine learning to detect and disrupt in-progress attacks like ransomware, business email compromise, attacker in the middle, and more with high confidence to limit the impact to an organization. By correlating trillions of signals from the workloads, Defender XDR can recognize the intent of an attacker and disrupts ransomware attacks in just three minutes.⁴

With cyberattackers using AI for their own means, XDR and unified security operations platforms are becoming increasingly critical to modern cybersecurity strategies. We are excited that Forrester recognized Microsoft’s leadership in this space, and we will continue to focus on innovation and AI-capabilities to help organizations future-proof their defenses.

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¹The Fundamentals of Cloud Security, The Hacker News. May 8, 2024.

²Microsoft internal data, May 2024.

³Study finds increase in cybersecurity attacks fueled by generative AI, Security Magazine. August 29, 2023.

⁴Get end-to-end protection with Microsoft’s unified security operations platform, now in public preview, Rob Lefferts. April 3, 2024.

The Forrester Wave™: Extended Detection And Response Platforms, Q2 2024, Allie Mellen, Joseph, Blankenship, Sarah Morana, and Michael Belden. June 3, 2024.

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Are you a regular user of Microsoft Sentinel? Review your experience on Gartner Peer Insights™ and get a $25 gift card. 

Microsoft Sentinel is enriched by AI, automation, and Microsoft’s deep understanding of the threat landscape, empowering defenders to hunt and resolve critical threats at machine speed. Our comprehensive solution works seamlessly across multiple clouds, platforms, and security stacks offering many out-of-the-box connectors and customizable content to effectively protect the entire digital estate at scale. Leveraging our capabilities, customers have seen up to 234% return on investment (ROI) over a three-year period and have reduced costs as much as 44% by discontinuing legacy SIEM solutions.² 

Microsoft is on a mission to modernize security operations, enabling analysts to act swiftly and more efficiently with a robust, cost-optimized, and intuitive solution.

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Tens of thousands of customers trust Microsoft Sentinel to accelerate protection of their organizations with a simplified, scalable, and comprehensive approach. Over the last year, our engineering team has been hard at work delivering new innovations in several key areas, including:    

• A comprehensive and unified security operations platform: The platform blends the best of SIEM, XDR, AI, Threat Intelligence, and extended posture management into a single experience offering end-to-end protection by consolidating various security operations tools into a single, coherent experience, powered by generative AI. In the unified security operations platform, features are unified across Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender XDR, with embedded Copilot for Security, to deliver more comprehensive protection, speeding up time to respond and reducing the workload on analysts. 

• Robust out-of-the-box content: To effectively protect all clouds and platforms, Microsoft Sentinel offers pre-built content and solution packages that can be customized enabling detection, response, and defensive capabilities in the SOC. Over the last few months, we have enhanced our multicloud data collection (AWS and GCP), updated codeless connectors, expanded data coverage to more third-party sources, and extended protection to various critical business applications (SAP, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and Power Platform) among many more innovations. 

• Splunk SIEM migration tool: We announced the general availability of the new SIEM Migration tool to simplify and accelerate SIEM migrations to Microsoft with automated assistance. Today, the experience supports conversion of Splunk detections to Microsoft Sentinel analytics rules with more capabilities coming in the months ahead. 

• SOC efficiency: SOC optimization capability enables security teams to customize and manage their SIEM more efficiently for specific business and security requirements. With dynamic, research backed recommendations to optimize data usage, costs, and coverage against relevant threats, analysts can confidently identify opportunities to reduce costs, improve security posture, and see value more quickly. 

• Copilot for Security: Copilot empowers security teams to make informed decisions in the SOC to protect at the speed and scale of AI. It offers skills to translate natural language to Kusto Query Language (KQL), accelerate incident investigation and response by automating manual tasks with customizable promptbooks, summarizes incidents with full context, helps prevent breaches with dynamic insights from Microsoft Threat Intelligence, and more. 

• Enhanced incident experience: The new incidents page experience provides more context for SOC analysts to efficiently triage, investigate, and respond quickly to incidents. Many new investigation, response, and incident management features offer the analysts the information and tools necessary to understand the incident and full scope of the breach while making navigation easy and context switching less frequent. New features include top insights, a new activity log for incident audits, a Log Analytics query window to investigate logs and more. 

Download the complimentary report to get more details on our positioning as a Leader. Our customers and partners have been an invaluable part of this multiyear journey. We owe our immense gratitude to you. 

Microsoft is here to help customers who may be re-evaluating their SIEM due to vendor acquisition and are looking to move to a market leader with an ongoing commitment to innovation.

Looking forward 

In 2024 we’ll continue to listen to customer needs and further enhance Microsoft Sentinel’s advanced threat-protection capabilities to empower defenders and drive efficiencies for SOC teams.  

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¹Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Information and Event Management, Andrew Davies, Mitchell Schneider, Rustam Malik, Eric Ahlm, May 8 2024.

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Identity professionals have a tough job. Every day, they deal with a digital landscape that’s always changing and with attacks that are always intensifying. To protect workforce identities and devices, they must secure access to data, applications, and resources across various environments—from any location and on any network. Moreover, they’re under constant pressure to secure not only an increasingly mobile and remote workforce, but also organizational resources that are increasingly distributed across multicloud environments.

We spend a lot of time with our customers to understand and address their challenges, and we’re grateful for their partnership. Their needs inspire the features and capabilities in Microsoft Entra, and we’ll keep collaborating with them to enhance our unified platform by strengthening identity security, improving user experiences, and integrating advanced technologies such as generative AI.

Leading the way in the workforce identity

In their earlier report, The Workforce Identity Platforms Landscape, Q4 2023, Forrester defined a workforce identity platform as a security platform that unifies the governance, administration, and enforcement of identity safeguards across human (employees, contractors, partners) and machine (service accounts, devices, bots, containers) identities to protect access to corporate assets and resources such as networks, business systems, applications, and data.

In The Forrester Wave™ report, Forrester recognized Microsoft Entra for its adaptive policy engine, well-integrated identity lifecycle management, and end-to-end approach to identity threat detection. The report also stated that Microsoft Entra supports a breadth of authentication methods (including passwordless options) for accessing all your apps and resources (cloud-based, legacy, and non-Microsoft). We believe the report demonstrates the value that the Microsoft Entra product portfolio brings to our customers, which we are always striving to improve. 

Looking to the future

It’s clear that—because AI is reshaping modern threats—AI-powered defenses are crucial. An AI-powered workforce identity platform empowers security and IT professionals to collaborate more effectively, gain deeper insights into security threats, and respond faster to emerging challenges.

We were happy to see Forrester cite Microsoft’s superior workforce identity vision that is underscored by its forward-looking innovation strategy in their evaluation. Looking forward, we’ll keep integrating our industry-leading AI capabilities with Microsoft Entra to help our customers future-proof their defenses and stay resilient against evolving cyberthreats in the workforce identity space.

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According to Frost & Sullivan, the market for MDR is growing rapidly, with a growth rate of 35.2%, as evidenced with 22 MDR vendors plotted in this year’s analysis. This growth is expected to continue as Frost & Sullivan cited that “faced with a lack of access to professionals and an inability to protect their business-critical data effectively, organizations are outsourcing to alleviate the issue.”

Figure 1. Frost Radar^TM for Managed Detection and Response 2024 showing Microsoft as a leader.

Advancing cybersecurity frontiers with Defender Experts

Designated as one of the companies to be considered first for investment, partnerships, or benchmarking by Frost & Sullivan, Microsoft is a recent entrant in the MDR space, but with its focus on AI and machine learning, “especially the development of Microsoft Copilot for Security, coupled with its top-tier threat detection and response capabilities, allows it to maintain an innovation edge over other world-class competitors.”¹ Our Defender Experts for XDR service helps our customers boost their security operations centers (SOCs) with security expertise and around-the-clock coverage to detect and accurately respond to incidents that matter across their varied Microsoft Defender XDR workloads.

The Frost & Sullivan report emphasizes the comprehensive capabilities of our Defender Experts for XDR service, which brings together human expertise with AI and automation powered by our Defender XDR suite. The service provides cross-domain MDR services with visibility over endpoints, email, cloud, and identity. In addition, Defender Experts for XDR “delivers 24/7 monitoring, detection, and response, and proactive threat hunting, combined with its world-class threat intelligence, security posture assessments, and access to its expert team.”

Charting new horizons—the convergence of managed services and generative AI

The report highlights the key innovation that Microsoft offers to customers, which is the ability to use both human-led expertise and generative AI in cybersecurity. As organizations continue to adopt MDR services to enhance their SOC efforts, the appearance of generative AI in cybersecurity solutions also offers more potential to those who want to improve their SOC teams. According to Frost & Sullivan, “AI, [machine learning], and automation have become increasingly integral to cybersecurity solutions. These technologies enhance detection and response and allow SOC analysts to focus on what’s important instead of chasing down false alerts.”

The report also recognizes Microsoft Copilot for Security as a pivotal AI assistant that enhances the capabilities of security analysts. It streamlines complex data into concise summaries, offers insights, aids in detection, accelerates response, and contextualizes alerts and incidents. This tool is instrumental in supporting both novice and seasoned analysts, enabling them to make well-informed decisions with greater confidence and speed.

Building on this, the Defender Experts team has found the utilization of Copilot for Security not only boosts productivity and streamlines workflows, but also significantly enhances threat detection and response. Insights from team leaders and real-world applications, such as script analysis and incident summaries, are detailed in a recent blog post. These examples underscore Copilot’s role in elevating the skills of analysts and enriching threat intelligence, and empowering security teams to leverage AI’s full potential in safeguarding their organizations. Microsoft will continue to invest in generative AI and unlock its potential for Defender Experts and our customers.

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Frost & Sullivan’s report praises Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR for its capacity to expedite SOC operations through expert triage and investigation, provide robust protection through human-led response and proactive remediation, offer around-the-clock access to Defender Experts for real-time consultations, and provide strategic recommendations to fortify defenses and mitigate future cyberthreats, all underscored by the transformative integration of generative AI with human expertise.

We know that a single provider can’t meet the unique needs of every organization, so we frequently collaborate with our ecosystem of partners that provide customers the flexibility to choose what works for them—and to leverage those trusted relationships for the best outcomes and returns on their investment. To date, we’ve added more than 50 partners to our Microsoft-verified MXDR program and invite you to review their offerings.

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¹Frost & Sullivan, Frost Radar™: Managed Detection and Response, 2024, Lucas Ferreyra. March 2024.

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To protect your entire multicloud, multiplatform digital estate, consider Microsoft Sentinel, a modern, comprehensive SIEM solution built on the cloud and enriched by AI to rapidly uncover sophisticated cyberthreats and respond at machine speed. Microsoft Sentinel offers a complete security operations solution that is powerful, highly efficient and economic than other SIEM solutions.

To evaluate the benefits of Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study. Using the methodology of the TEI framework, Forrester consultants evaluated the cost, benefits, and flexibility of Microsoft Sentinel and developed a framework that organizations can use to evaluate the potential financial impact on their organizations.

In this study, Forrester found that interviewees achieved some notable advantages from their investment in Microsoft Sentinel, including increasing the productivity of their security teams, simplifying operations, decreasing their total cost of ownership, and realizing a return on investment (ROI) of 234%. Here are some other major findings for a composite organization based on what interviewed organizations reported.

1. Reducing time-to-value compared to other SIEM solutions 

Deploying Microsoft Sentinel—and finessing it after implementation—is faster because of the solution’s prebuilt playbooks, automation, and other SIEM tools. Microsoft Sentinel reduced the time to configure and deploy new connections by 93%, with time saved in configuration valued at $618,000 during the three-year period Forrester analyzed.  

“It took us about five years to get to be a six terabyte on-prem customer [with out previous solution]. It took us two months to set up Microsoft Sentinel and another two months to be at data-ingestion parity. It was insane.”

—CISO, financial services

This out-of-the-box functionality also includes simplified data connections and integrations that make it easier and faster to connect Microsoft Sentinel with your non-Microsoft systems, saving the time that employees might otherwise spend doing integration work. Valuable connections can be made across users, devices, apps, and infrastructure. Find even more integrations with Copilot for Security. 

2. Increasing the efficiency of the SOC 

Microsoft Sentinel makes it easier for security practitioners at all levels of expertise to detect, investigate, and respond effectively to cyberthreats. The solution harnesses an AI-driven correlation engine and offers a unified set of tools to more easily monitor, manage, and respond to incidents. Those interviewed praised Microsoft Sentinel’s interface for being easy to use (no specialized security expertise necessary). Because of Sentinel’s process automation, security professionals with less IT knowledge can effectively use the platform to detect and respond to cyberthreats.  

The total value of efficiency improvements to the security operations center of a composite organization was $1.5 million over three years. The solution is intuitive enough to use that junior analysts can tackle investigation basics while senior analytics tackle higher-priority tasks, according to Forrester findings. A prebuilt playbook helps further.  

Microsoft Sentinel capabilities, including its behavior-based analytics, enable you to boost the mean time to respond (MTTR) as you decrease false positives and minimize the work required of advanced investigations. In fact, Forrester found that Microsoft Sentinel helped to reduce false positives by up to 79% and decrease the work required for advanced, multitouch investigations by 85%. These are critical metrics when every second counts in triage and response.

“The reason we have Microsoft Sentinel is because of its proactive predictive abilities. It is able to respond to threats faster than a human can. We actually were able to stop significant threats that hit other organizations and keep our organization running. Microsoft Sentinel was one of the tools in our Microsoft tool bag that really kept us running as an organization. It kept our operations running.”

—CISO, healthcare

3. Reduce total cost of operation 

Implementing Microsoft Sentinel offers several cost savings opportunities, according to interviewees. One quantified benefit from the study found that the composite organization’s potential cost savings gained by discounting their current legacy SIEM solution and switching to Microsoft Sentinel could account for realized savings of up to $5.1 million over three years. This is attributed to Microsoft Sentinel’s lower per-GB data ingestion and licensing costs that enables customers to avoid the capital investments necessary to store logs on-premises. 

Microsoft Sentinel offers smoother deployment because of its prebuilt playbooks, queries, data connections, and free ingestion for certain Microsoft logs including Office 365 audit logs, Azure activity logs, and Microsoft Threat Protection alerts. The more intuitive nature of Microsoft Sentinel makes it easier to onboard employees to the technology.  

“Compared to [our on-premises solution] when we were paying for infrastructure, the savings are significant. Essentially one year of [legacy solution] costs are three years of Microsoft Sentinel costs.”

—CISO, financial services

Interviewees also shared that Microsoft Sentinel helped them decrease compliance costs. They did this by streamlining compliance reporting through the automation capabilities of Sentinel for security data collection and analysis. The alternative option would likely have been to bring in external consultants.  

4. Minimizing management effort 

In interviews with management teams at the organizations, they reported saving time on planning and maintenance, allowing for more time on other critical projects. That’s due to the way the solution decreased the size and complexity of their on-premises infrastructure. The value of this reduced management amounts to $1.1 million for a composite organization over three years and enabled the redeployment of 50% of infrastructure services professionals and 16% of legacy SIEM specialists. Automatic updates and the platform’s intuitive and centralized nature contribute to lessening the demand for labor.  

“In the raw maintenance of the SIEM, it’s pretty hands off. When there is an issue, we open up a case with Microsoft and they assume the burden of trying to fix the issue. I don’t have to maintain staff for that anymore.”

—CISO, financial services

The advantages of Microsoft Sentinel 

With its modern, cloud-native features and innovations, Microsoft Sentinel has helped organizations like yours deploy faster, increase the efficiency of their threat investigations, save on deployment and training, and gain efficiency in security management. Explore the Total Economic Impact™ Of Microsoft Sentinel Study for more analyst findings as well as to read the perspectives of Sentinel users interviewed in the study.

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• Unified security operations center platform.
• Microsoft Secure announcements.
• Microsoft Sentinel innovations.

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Total Economic Impact is a methodology developed by Forrester Research that enhances a company’s technology decision-making processes and assists vendors in communicating the value proposition of their products and services to clients. The TEI methodology helps companies demonstrate, justify, and realize the tangible value of IT initiatives to both senior management and other key business stakeholders. 

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The broad value of the Intune Suite

While the solutions of the Intune Suite launched at different points in time, three fundamental principles have been there from the beginning.

First, one place for workloads adjacent to Unified Endpoint Management. If you’re currently using a mix of third-party solutions, the integrated experience in Microsoft Intune provides security and efficiency on multiple levels. First, one unified solution means fewer integrations to manage across third parties, meaning fewer attack vectors for malicious actors. And second, on a deeper level, the broader Intune proposition (both Intune Suite and Intune) is integrated with Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Security solutions. This provides a consolidated and seamless experience for IT professionals with a single pane of glass for end-to-end endpoint management.

Second, all parts of the Intune Suite are ready to support your cloud and AI-enabled future. Intune Suite will help accelerate organizations’ digital transformation to cloud native and simplify their IT operations. Additionally, data from Intune Suite are consolidated with other Intune and security data, meaning complete visibility across the device estate, informing and improving emerging technologies like Microsoft Copilot for Security. The more interrelated data that Copilot can use, the more it can proactively advise on the next best action.

Lastly, Intune Suite is available in a single unified plan. So, rather than having separate solutions for remote assistance, privilege management, analytics, and more, these advanced solutions can all be consolidated and simplified into one. This provides value in two ways: directly, by reducing the overall licensing cost, as the cost of Intune Suite is less than purchasing separate solutions; and the economic value of the Intune Suite is also in indirect savings: no need to manage separate vendors, train IT admins on separate tools, or maintain costly on-premises public key infrastructure (PKI). The Intune Suite makes it easier for IT admins, reducing overhead costs.

“With what we get out of Intune Suite, we can eliminate other products that our customers need. It’s now a suite of many components that enable customers who want to consolidate solutions and save money.”

—Mattias Melkersen Kalvåg, Mobility and Windows Management Consultant at MINDCORE, and| Microsoft Certified Professional & MVP

From today: A comprehensive suite across applications, access needs, and support

Let’s get into specifics. For application security, Enterprise App Management helps you find, deploy, and update your enterprise apps. And Endpoint Privilege Management lets you manage elevation rules on a per-app basis so that even standard users can run approved privileged apps. Cloud PKI lets you manage certificates from the cloud in lieu of complex, on-premises PKI infrastructure. And Microsoft Tunnel for Mobile Application Management (MAM) is perfect for unenrolled, personal mobile devices, to help broker secure access to line of business apps. Advanced Analytics gives you data-rich insights across your endpoints. And Remote Help lets you view and control your PCs, Mac computers, and specialized mobile devices, right from the Intune admin center. Let us take each of those three product areas in turn.

Increase endpoint security with Enterprise App Management and Endpoint Privilege Management

Enterprise App Management gives you a new app catalog, allowing you to easily distribute managed apps, but also keep them patched and always up to date. With this initial release, you will be able to discover and deploy highly popular, pre-packaged apps, so you no longer need to scour the Internet to find their installation files, repackage, and upload them into Intune. Simply add and deploy the apps directly from their app publishers. You can also allow the apps you trust to self-update, and when a new update is available, it is just one click to update all your devices with that app installed. We will continuously expand and enrich the app catalog functionality in future releases to further advance your endpoint security posture and simplify operations. 

“I’m very excited about Enterprise App Management as it’s powered by a strong app catalog and natively integrated in Intune. This single pane of glass experience is what we’re all looking for.”

—Niklas Tinner, Microsoft MVP and Senior Endpoint Engineer at baseVISION AG

For more control over your apps, with Endpoint Privilege Management, you can scope temporary privilege elevation, based on approved apps and processes. Then, as a user in scope for this policy, you can elevate only the processes and apps that have been approved. For example, users can only run a single app for a short period of time as an administrator. Unlike other approaches that give local admin permissions or virtually unlimited scope, you can selectively allow a user to elevate in a one-off scenario by requesting Intune admin approval, without you needing to define the policy ahead of time.

“Endpoint Privilege Management offers tight integration into the operating system. And the focus that Microsoft has over only elevating specific actions and apps versus making you an admin for a period of time—this is security at its best, going for the least privileged access.”

—Michael Mardahl, Cloud Architect at Apento

Cloud PKI and Microsoft Tunnel for MAM powers secure access

With Cloud PKI, providing both root and issuing Certificate Authorities (CA) in the cloud, you can simply set up a PKI in minutes, manage the certificate lifecycle, reduce the need for extensive technical expertise and tools, and minimize the effort and cost of maintaining on-premises infrastructure. In addition, support for Bring-Your-Own CA is available, allowing you to anchor Intune’s Issuing CA to your own private CA. Certificates can be deployed automatically to Intune-managed devices for scenarios such as authentication to Wi-Fi, VPN, and more; a modern PKI management option that works well to secure access with Microsoft Entra certificate-based authentication. In the initial release, Cloud PKI will also work with your current Active Directory Certificate Services for SSL and TLS certificates, but you do not need to deploy certificate revocation lists, Intune certificate connectors, Network Device Enrollment Service (NDES) servers, or any reverse proxy infrastructure. You can issue, renew, or revoke certificates directly from the Intune admin center automatically or manually. 

Microsoft Tunnel for MAM helps secure mobile access to your private resources. Microsoft Tunnel for MAM works similarly to Microsoft Tunnel for managed devices; however, with this advanced solution, Microsoft Tunnel for MAM works with user-owned (non-enrolled) iOS and Android devices. Microsoft Tunnel for MAM provides secure VPN access at the app level, for just the apps and browser (including Microsoft Edge) your IT admin explicitly authorizes. So, for personally owned devices, the user can access approved apps, without your company’s data moving onto the user’s personal device. App protection policies protect the data within the apps, preventing unauthorized data leakage to other apps or cloud storage locations.

“Cloud PKI within the Intune Suite allows you to go cloud native in terms of certificate deployment, which means you can provision PKIs with just a few clicks—that’s a blessing for all the IT administrators. With this built-in service, Microsoft hosts everything for you to manage certificates.”  

—Niklas Tinner

Resolve support issues quicker with Advanced Analytics and Remote Help

Advanced Analytics in Intune is a powerful set of tools for actionable reporting and AI-driven analytics. It provides deep, near real-time insights into your connected devices and managed apps that help you understand, anticipate, and proactively improve the user experience. We continue to infuse AI and machine learning into our analytics products. For example, you can get ahead of battery degradation in your device fleet through our advanced statistical analysis and use that information to prioritize hardware updates. Intune Suite now includes real-time device querying on-demand using Kusto Query Language for individual devices, useful for troubleshooting and resolving support calls quicker.

With Remote Help, you can also streamline the way you remotely view and interact with your managed devices, for both user-requested or unattended sessions. As a help desk technician, you can securely connect to both enrolled and unenrolled devices. Users also have peace of mind in being able to validate the technician’s identity, to avoid help desk spoofing attempts. Right now, Remote Help works for remote viewing and controlling in Windows PCs and Android dedicated Enterprise devices, and supports remote viewing for macOS. Especially useful for frontline workers, Remote Help for Android allows help desk administrators to configure and troubleshoot unattended devices, meaning issues can be revolved off-shift.

“Remote Help takes away the requirement and the need for third-party remote help tools. Remote Help is native, it’s interactive, and you don’t have to worry about installing anything, it’s already there. It’s part of Intune, it’s part of the build.”

—Matthew Czarnoch, Cloud and Infrastructure Operations Manager at RLS (Registration and Licensing Services)

To see many of these new capabilities in action, we invite you to watch this new Microsoft Mechanics video.

Analyst recognition for Microsoft

With the additions to the Intune Suite now available, IT can power a more secure and productive future at an important time as AI comes online. Notably, analyst recognition is validating the importance of its value. For example, Microsoft again assumes the strongest leadership position in the Omdia Universe: Digital Workspace Management and Unified Endpoint Management Platforms 2024. Omdia wrote: “Microsoft is focused on reducing management costs by utilizing the Microsoft Intune Suite and integrating different solutions with it.” They added: “The company plans to invest in Endpoint Analytics and Security Copilot to introduce data-driven management, helping IT professionals shift from reactive, repetitive tasks to strategic ones by utilizing Endpoint Analytics and automation.” Omdia’s recognition follows that from others like Forrester, who named Microsoft as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™ for Unified Endpoint Management, Q4 2023.

Get started with consolidated endpoint management solutions with the Microsoft Intune Suite

The February 2024 release of the solutions in the Intune Suite marks a key milestone, offering a consolidated, comprehensive solution set together in a cost-effective bundle (and available as individual add-on solutions) for any plan that includes Intune. And in April 2024, they will also be available to organizations and agencies of the United States government community cloud. We look forward to hearing your reactions to the new Intune Suite.

• Microsoft Intune News at Microsoft Ignite 2023.
• Learn more about Microsoft Intune.
• Omdia Universe: Digital Workspace Management/Unified Endpoint Management Platforms 2024.
• Forrester Wave™ for Unified Endpoint Management, Q4 2023. 
• Microsoft Cloud PKI blog announcement at Microsoft Ignite 2023.
• Microsoft Intune Enterprise App Management blog announcement at Microsoft Ignite 2023.
• Microsoft Intune Advanced Analytics blog announcement at Microsoft Ignite 2023.

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¹Ease the burden of managing and protecting endpoints with Microsoft advanced solutions, Dilip Radhakrishnan and Gideon Bibliowicz. April 5, 2022.

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Propelling business growth

The Forrester report recognizes the advances made to the Microsoft Intune platform in the last year:

This new platform approach aims to help customers simplify management, reduce costs, and transform experiences with AI and automation, all factors that enable Microsoft to vastly outperform others across key metrics like devices under management and revenue growth.

Moving to cloud management with Intune aids customers in applying Zero Trust security principles, improves user experience, and streamlines operations with AI and automation. Exemplary endpoint management doesn’t often get the credit for propelling business growth like research and development initiatives. But companies that reduce the administrative overhead on their talent have more hours and focused attention available to tackle more challenges and innovate. And “talent” isn’t just made up of users; IT and security teams can tackle more valuable projects after simplifying and automating management tasks for themselves. As just one example, new cloud-based controls to manage the local admin passwords for Windows devices make this critical security operation simpler and reduces the need for on-premises resources.

The report also made note of the Microsoft Intune Suite, saying “it includes new support for mobile application management (MAM)-only, ruggedized, remote control, privilege management, and DEX (digital experience) use cases.”

The Intune Suite extends the capabilities of Intune and powers better digital experiences. Solutions like Endpoint Privilege Management ease the burdens on help desks and keep users productive, and Remote Help makes real-time troubleshooting faster, easier, and more secure for users and administrators alike. The time saved and frustration spared keep everyone focused on progress rather than process.

Defining the endpoint management experience 

In The Unified Endpoint Management Landscape, Q3 2023 report, Forrester offers this market definition of unified endpoint management: “[Unified endpoint management] solutions help EUC (end user computing) professionals balance three priorities at once: exceptional DEX, cost-efficient management, and foundational threat prevention.” 

Exceptional digital experience

How is the Intune digital experience exceptional? Devices are verified as healthy and made more secure without impeding the flow of work—or even rising to the notice of the user. Zero-touch provisioning with Autopilot creates a seamless out-of-box experience. Single sign-on, recently added to Intune’s now-comprehensive MacOS management capabilities, reduces password fatigue and helps users get to work with fewer interruptions. Mobile application management allows users to use their own mobile and Windows devices to access secure resources without enrollment, allowing them greater freedom to work (and be inspired) where they see fit. That Intune works so well with Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Defender, Windows, and Windows 365, further enhances the experience of work with fewer hassles and greater peace of mind.

Cost-efficient management

As a truly unified platform, Intune allows admins to manage Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android, iOS, and specialty devices. This reduces the burden of consolidating data from multiple sources and of switching between tools for privilege management, update management, and user experience. Intune instead offers broad management and protection capabilities and true visibility into endpoint performance in one place. With the Intune Suite, the productivity of admins and users can be accelerated even more.

Many enterprises are able to realize the value of Intune at no additional cost as part of their Microsoft 365 licenses. Additional savings can be realized by consolidating specialized management tools with redundant features, by retiring on-premises infrastructure, and by moving to true cloud-native management. Automation of tasks with flows, PowerShell runbooks, and scripts extends efficiency into the day-to-day operations of administrators, and the ability to grant Conditional Access to bring-your-own devices eases the need for dedicated, company-owned devices for employees. The reduction in support tickets and security incidents afforded by the baselines and tools that keep devices compliant and hardened against threat reduce costs of remediation.

Foundational threat prevention

Microsoft Intune offers fundamental capabilities for creating and enforcing Zero Trust security at enterprise scale, and was given the top score in the Security category of the report. Device health compliance capabilities help keep potentially compromised devices from accessing sensitive resources. Privilege management and Conditional Access policy enforcement permit users to remain productive without increasing risk. The ability to define and enforce data protection policies at the device level keeps information flowing to the right places and helps prevent it from leaking to the wrong ones. Using Intune in concert with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint extends the security capabilities even further.

Strategic strength

The Forrester Wave™: Unified Endpoint Management, Q4 2023 report evaluates product strategy in addition to current features when identifying leaders, and Microsoft received the highest possible score in this area. According to the Forrester report, The Unified Endpoint Management Landscape, Q3 2023, “AI will fundamentally change the job of endpoint administrators, allowing them to query endpoints faster and more granularly, help inform policy decisions, and even replace scripting.”

Microsoft has begun to realize that future today with insights driven by machine learning already informing the Intune service. SOC and IT admins using Intune and the Intune Suite will see data from those services used by Microsoft Security Copilot, and expanded capabilities will emerge as the technology evolves.  

Innovation and improvements to Intune are driven by our engineers, partners, and customers. We’re grateful to all our stakeholders for the hard work, extensive feedback, and broad adoption of Intune (Forrester indicates Microsoft has the largest Market presence, too) that has enabled the solution to become a leader in unified endpoint management.

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While we hope that this recognition gives confidence to all those who are interested in Intune, we know that diving deep into how a solution really works is key to making any investment. Check out Intune and Windows Tech Takeoff sessions to get technical breakdowns of existing workloads and explore what’s new.  You can also subscribe to our ongoing news by returning to the Microsoft Intune blog home then join the conversation on Twitter at @MSIntune and LinkedIn.

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Microsoft Entra is a unified identity and network access solution that protects any identity and secures access to any application or resource, in any cloud or on-premises. We’re grateful to all of you—our customers and partners, for your generous feedback that guides our product vision, roadmap, and innovation, and for the collaborative engineering approach that has enabled us to co-create modern identity and access solutions.  

Today, we are honored to announce that for the seventh year in a row, Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant ^TM for Access Management. We believe Microsoft’s placement in the Leaders quadrant validates our commitment to empowering our customers with a comprehensive solution powered by AI and automation.

Making it easier to secure access

Microsoft Entra’s mission is to help you stay ahead of the evolving digital threat landscape by making it easier to secure access to everything, for everyone, from anywhere. This year, we released several key innovations in pursuit of this goal. Here are a few recent highlights: 

First, we introduced Microsoft Entra ID Governance, our complete identity governance solution that helps ensure the right people have the right access to the right resources at the right time. This cloud-delivered product includes capabilities that were already available in Microsoft Entra ID, plus more advanced tools that automate identity and access lifecycle management, and simplify access governance for on-premises, software as a service, and cloud apps and resources.

Second, we made significant progress towards offering additional phishing-resistant authentication methods in alignment with Executive Order 14028: Users will be able to sign in using passkeys managed from the Microsoft Authenticator app, which is also Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-compliant for both iOS and Android. We have also added more customization for our cloud-based certificate-based authentication (CBA) solution. 

Third, Microsoft Entra ID introduced a series of marquee features, including Microsoft Entra ID Protection that help you proactively block identity takeover in real-time. These innovations include a brand-new dashboard with improved security posture insights and recommendations, new risk detections that can prevent attacks in their early phases, and an integration with Microsoft Defender XDR to correlate incidents. Strict location enforcement capabilities have also been added to continuous access evaluation (CAE), which enables Microsoft Entra ID to use those signals to revoke access and remediate potential compromise if a change in location was detected in in near real-time. As part of an ongoing commitment to token protection, Microsoft Entra ID also released sign-in session token protection to help defend against token theft attacks. 

Fourth, we released the preview of new, unified capabilities in Microsoft Entra External ID, our next-generation customer identity and access management platform that unifies secure and engaging experiences for all external identities, including customers, partners, citizens, and others within a single integrated platform. These new capabilities deliver a more developer-centric platform with the latest security and governance capabilities of Microsoft Entra ID and deep integrations across Microsoft Security. 

Fifth, we launched our new identity-centric Security Service Edge solution with the release of two products, Microsoft Entra Internet Access and Microsoft Entra Private Access. This solution unifies identity and network access controls under a single policy engine, extending universal Conditional Access controls to any user and any resource across identity, endpoint and network. By bringing these two solutions into the Microsoft Entra portfolio, we’re expanding our reach beyond identity and access management to a comprehensive solution that can help secure access holistically.

We can’t wait to bring more innovations to the Microsoft Entra portfolio in this new year and continue making progress against our goal to simplify securing access to everything, for everyone.

Discover the Microsoft Entra product family

The Microsoft Entra product family includes:

• Microsoft Entra ID, part of Microsoft Entra, our flagship cloud identity product.
• Microsoft Entra Permissions Management, our cloud infrastructure entitlement management product.
• Microsoft Entra External ID, our customer identity and access management product.
• Microsoft Entra Verified ID, our decentralized identity product.
• Microsoft Entra Identity Governance, our complete identity governance product.
• Microsoft Entra Workload ID, our product that brings advanced security and governance to non-human identities.
• Microsoft Entra Internet Access, our identity-centric secure web gateway (SWG) product.
• Microsoft Entra Private Access, our identity-centric Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) product.

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You can learn more by reading the full 2023 Gartner^® Magic Quadrant^TM for Access Management report. To learn more about the Microsoft Entra portfolio and its products, visit our website.

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