Today we announced the general availability of Microsoft Entra Suite - the industry’s most comprehensive secure access solution for the workforce. The Microsoft Entra Suite delivers the most comprehensive Zero Trust user access solution and enables organizations to converge access policy engine across identities, endpoints, and private and public networks.
What is Microsoft Entra Suite?
The Microsoft Entra Suite delivers a complete cloud-based solution for workforce access. It brings together identity and network access that secures employee access to any cloud or on-premises application and resource from any location, consistently enforces least privilege access, and improves the employee experience.
This new offering advances our vision for the Microsoft Entra product line that can serve as a universal trust fabric for the era of AI, securely connecting any trustworthy identity with anything, from anywhere. In a recent blog post we also shared the four stages of creating such trust fabric for your organization, starting with foundational Zero Trust controls, and extending it to protecting access for your workforce, protecting access for your customers and partners, and protecting access in any cloud. The Microsoft Entra Suite delivers the complete toolset for the second stage of this journey – secure access for your workforce.
The Microsoft Entra Suite includes the following products:
- Microsoft Entra Private Access – an identity-centric Zero Trust Network Access that secures access to private apps and resources and reduces operational complexity and cost by replacing legacy VPNs.
- Microsoft Entra Internet Access – an identity-centric Secure Web Gateway (SWG) for SaaS apps and internet traffic that protects against malicious internet traffic, unsafe or non-compliant content, and other threats from the open internet.
- Microsoft Entra ID Governance – a complete identity governance and administration solution that automates identity and access lifecycle to ensure that the right people have the right access to the right apps and services at the right time.
- Microsoft Entra ID Protection – an advanced identity solution that blocks identity compromise in real time using high-assurance authentication methods, automated risk and threat assessment, and adaptive access policies powered by advanced machine learning (also included in Microsoft Entra ID P2).
- Microsoft Entra Verified ID - a managed verifiable credentials service based on open standards that enables real-time identity verification in a secure and privacy respecting way. Included in the Microsoft Entra Suite are premium Verified ID capabilities, starting with Face Check.
Microsoft Entra Suite enables you to:
- Unify Conditional Access policies for identities and networks.
- Ensure least privilege access for all users accessing all resources and apps.
- Improve the user experience for both in-office and remote workers.
- Reduce the complexity and cost of managing security tools from multiple vendors.
Check out the Microsoft Entra Suite introductory video below:
Unify Conditional Access policies for identities and networks
You only have to manage one set of policies in one portal to configure access controls for both identities and networks. Conditional Access evaluates any access request, no matter where it’s coming from, performing real-time risk assessment to strengthen protection against unauthorized access.
Ensure least privilege access for all users accessing all resources and apps
You can automate the access lifecycle from the day a new employee joins your organization, through all their role changes, until the time of their exit. No matter how long or multifaceted an employee’s journey, Microsoft Entra ID Governance ensures that your employees have the right access to just the applications and resources they need, helping prevent an adversary’s lateral movement in case of a breach.
Improve the user experience for both in-office and remote workers
You can ensure that employees enjoy a faster and easier onboarding experience, faster and more secure sign-in via passwordless authentication, single sign-on for all applications, and superior performance. Using a self-service portal, your employees can request access to relevant packages, manage approvals and access reviews, and view request and approval history. Face Check with Microsoft Entra Verified ID enables real-time verification of your employee's identity, which streamlines remote onboarding and self-service recovery of passwordless accounts.
Reduce the complexity and cost of managing security tools from multiple vendors
Since traditional on-premises security solutions don’t scale to the needs of modern cloud-first, AI-first environments, organizations are seeking ways to secure and manage their assets from the cloud. With the Microsoft Entra Suite, you can retire multiple on-premises security tools, such as traditional Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), on-premises Secure Web Gateways (SWGs), and on-premises identity governance.
Microsoft Entra Suite is currently priced at $12 per user per month. Microsoft Entra P1 is a licensing and technical prerequisite. Please refer to the Microsoft Entra Suite pricing page for more detail.
Join us for upcoming events!
We encourage you to watch the Zero Trust spotlight on demand, where Microsoft experts and thought leaders dove deeper into these and other announcements, including the general availability of Entra Internet Access and Entra Private Access, which is part of the Microsoft Entra Suite.
Additionally, register for the Tech Accelerator to join us on August 14, 2024, for a deep dive into the Microsoft Entra Suite, and Private Access and Internet Access products.
Learn More
The availability of the Microsoft Entra Suite marks a key milestone in our commitment to continue to provide a more seamless and robust secure access experience that will empower the workforce anywhere and everywhere. Learn more from the official announcement.
Visit the Microsoft Entra Suite trial page to get started.
Irina Nechaeva, General Manager, Identity and Network Access Product Marketing
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