Guidance for Microsoft Defender for Identity (MDI) — identity threat detection (ITDR) across on-premises Active Directory, AD CS, AD FS, and Entra Connect using sensors. Covers sensor placement, prerequisites, posture assessments, and lateral-movement detection. WHEN: Defender for Identity, MDI, MDI sensors, detect lateral movement, on-prem AD threat detection, identity security posture, AD CS monitoring, ADCS abuse, domain controller sensor, detect Kerberoasting, DCSync, Golden Ticket, identity ITDR, honeytoken, gMSA Directory Service Account, suspicious LDAP, ESC1 ESC8. DO NOT USE when the goal is cloud identity protection in Entra ID (use entra-id-protection) or correlating cross-workload incidents (use defender-xdr).
How to install defender-for-identity?
vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-skills/defender-for-identity
$npx -y skills add vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-skills --skill defender-for-identityInstalls into the current project.
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