Can the defender for identity sensor be installed on normal vms being used for DBs and Apps? because we fully cloud based and have no on prem domain controllers

Rizwan Assad 321 Reputation points
2023-07-24T08:06:28.89+00:00

Improvement Action: Start your Defender for Identity deployment, installing Sensors on Domain Controllers and other eligible servers.

We need to establish if we can utilize this service on normal VMs and if there is any benefit of it?

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  1. Givary-MSFT 30,251 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
    2023-07-26T07:23:52.0333333+00:00

    @Rizwan Assad Thank you for reaching out to us, As I understand you want to leverage defender for identity for DB's and apps which are cloud based as well,

    What does defender for identity collect -

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    Defender for identity is primary for detecting on-premise AD attacks, in order to protect other resources you can leverage defender for cloud - https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/azure/defender-for-cloud/defender-for-cloud-introduction#protect-cloud-workloads

    https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/azure/defender-for-cloud/connect-azure-subscription

    Let me know if you have any further questions, feel free to post back.

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