Identity Inventory enhancements: Accounts tab, manual account linking and unlinking, and expanded remediation actions
Analysis / inference: Microsoft Defender for Identity introduces an Accounts tab, manual account linking, and identity-level remediation features.
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- Source
- Microsoft Defender for Identity - What's new · Limited verification
- Classification
- Microsoft Security
Section 01 · Summary analysis
Defender for Identity added an Accounts tab to Identity Inventory, supporting manual account linking/unlinking across Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, and non-Microsoft identity providers, alongside identity-level remediation actions.
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Section 02 · Analysis
SecOps Signal analysisSOC analysts and identity administrators gain consolidated visibility and coordinated remediation capabilities across Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, and third-party identity sources.
Investigators can correlate disparate identity components and execute mass remediations like password resets or account disabling from a single interface.
Section 03 · Recommended actions
- Explore the new Accounts tab in the Identity Inventory portal
- Review documentation on managing related identities and accounts
- Verify access to the new Accounts tab within Microsoft Defender for Identity Identity Inventory
- Review manually linked and unlinked accounts to ensure proper identity correlation
- Validate that identity-level remediation actions such as password resets and account disables function as expected