defender-for-identity
defender-for-identity is a Blue team & detection skill for AI agents, published by vinayaklatthe in the microsoft-security-skills repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates defender-for-identity C (70/100) and it passed the safety scan; the rating is based on static analysis only.
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).
- Grade
- C
- Quality
- 70 / 100
- Safety
- Passed
- GitHub stars
- 158
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Our review
- Architecture
- 100 / 100
- Maturity
- Basic: a single SKILL.md
- Security scan
- Low-risk patterns
- License
- MIT
- Adoption
- Adopted by 0 other repositories, in 0 collections
What the scanner flagged
- mentions secrets in text
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