​​8 years as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Access Management​​

In mid-October, we released our 2024 Microsoft Digital Defense Report, which revealed over 600 million identity attacks per day. As multifactor authentication now blocks most password-based attacks, we’re seeing a shift in threat actor tactics and a convergence of nation-state and cybercriminal threat activity. More than 99% of identity attacks are password attacks—often due to predictable human behaviors like easy-to-guess passwords, password reuse, and falling prey to phishing attacks.¹ That’s why comprehensive, integrated identity and access management (IAM) should be a core part of any organization’s threat-informed defense. Today we’re honored to announce that for the eighth year in a row, Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Access Management—placed highest on the Ability to Execute axis. 

Delivering on identity and access management for customers

We believe our 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ recognition validates our commitment to delivering a comprehensive, AI-powered and automated identity portfolio to customers, with Microsoft Entra. It empowers customers to protect their digital everything with a simplified user experience that makes identity and access management (IAM) easier than ever before. And it’s informed by our customers and partners—to whom we thank and share this honor.

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. It’s a single place with a simplified user experience for security professionals. Microsoft Entra allows organizations to: 

• Use adaptive identity and network access controls to secure access to any app or resource, from anywhere. 
• Protect and verify every identity with consistent security policies for every user—employees, frontline workers, customers, and partners—as well as apps, devices, and workloads across multicloud and hybrid environments. 
• Provide only the access necessary with right-size permissions, access lifecycle management, and least-privilege access for any identity. 

We’re especially proud of this recognition in our eighth year recognized as a Leader, and share our thanks to our customers, partners, and team members for their contributions and support.

Looking to the future

As we celebrate this year’s recognition, we’re also hard at work on new and expanded features—looking ahead to meet customers’ changing IAM needs as our collective threat landscape continues to evolve.

Microsoft Entra ID currently supports device-bound passkeys stored on FIDO2 security keys and in Microsoft Authenticator. And we’re investing in both synced and device-bound passkeys for work accounts. For enterprises that use passwords today, passkeys provide a seamless way for workers to authenticate without entering a username or password. Passkeys provide improved productivity for workers and have better security. Read more about requirements and instructions to enable passkeys for your organization. 

Microsoft Security Copilot, now in public preview, is embedded in Microsoft Entra—helping customers investigate and resolve identity risks, assess identities and access with AI-powered intelligence, and complete complex tasks quickly. Built on top of real-time machine learning, Copilot in Microsoft Entra can help your teams find gaps in access policies, generate identity workflows, and troubleshoot faster. You can also unlock new skills that allow admins at all levels to complete complex tasks such as incident investigation, sign-in log analysis, and more, to gain savings in time and resources. Read more about the key features of Copilot in Microsoft Entra. 

Microsoft is working with a diverse community to create a decentralized identity solution that puts individuals in charge of their own digital identities, providing a secure and private way to manage identity data without relying on centralized authorities or intermediaries. With Face Check with Microsoft Entra Verified ID, enterprises can perform high-assurance verifications securely, simply, and at scale. Powered by Azure AI services, Face Check adds a critical layer of trust by performing facial matching between a user’s real-time selfie and a photo. Read more about the prerequisites and set up requirements for Face Check with Microsoft Entra Verified ID.

Learn more

You can learn more by reading the full 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Access Management report. To learn more about the Microsoft Entra portfolio and its products, visit our website. 

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To learn more about Microsoft Security solutions, visit our website. Bookmark the Security blog to keep up with our expert coverage on security matters. Also, follow us on LinkedIn (Microsoft Security) and X (@MSFTSecurity) for the latest news and updates on cybersecurity. 

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¹Microsoft Digital Defense Report, Microsoft. 2024.

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Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Access Management, 2 December 2024, By Brian Guthrie, Nathan Harris, Abhyuday Data, Josh Murphy.