February 4, 2025
RoadmapSecurity, Compliance, and Identity Management Roadmap
The Security, Compliance, and Identity Roadmap provides information about services and software (cloud and on-premises) that help to keep data, client endpoints, and infrastructure managed, secure, and compliant with regulatory requirements. This includes information about each product and major changes that are expected with each service. The core of all Microsoft 365 infrastructure runs in Microsoft’s own cloud and typically cannot be used on-premises, in Microsoft’s clouds, or in third-party clouds, and always requires Internet connectivity.
This roadmap contains the following chapters:
The Security chapter discusses Microsoft 365, Azure, and on-premises security services and software that protect the OS, software, and other components running on various endpoints.
Microsoft 365
- Defender for Endpoint
- Defender for Office 365
- Defender for Identity
- Defender for Cloud Apps
- Sentinel
Azure
On-premises
The Compliance chapter provides information about Microsoft 365 regulatory- and legal-compliance-related services, primarily under the Purview brand, a set of compliance assessment services that enable administrators to scan content held in Microsoft 365 and determine the degree to which it complies with relevant regulations.
Services described in this chapter include:
The Identity Management chapter discusses identity management technologies that maintain user identity data, such as group memberships and physical office locations and e-mail addresses, across all the applications and OS services that use the data.
Microsoft 365 and Azure Identity refers to the family of Microsoft 365 hosted security services, all of which fall under the Microsoft Entra brand. Entra services, particular Entra ID, are designed to provide identity and access management (IAM), reporting, and governance features to Microsoft 365 hosted services such as Office 365, and to a degree, Windows and third-party endpoints.
On-premises
Microsoft’s primary identity management technologies are the Entra ID hosted identity service (previously Azure Active Directory [AAD]), used by most Microsoft hosted services, and the Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) and Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) components of Windows Server used on-premises. The company’s identity management development effort now focuses almost entirely on Entra ID.
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