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Keep this document to one review outcome: Extend identity threat investigations to SailPoint-managed accounts. Only the official source and traced locations below supply facts. Confirm applicability before acting.

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Source fact:

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The official How Microsoft Defender for Identity protects your SailPoint Identity Security Cloud accounts (Preview) from Microsoft supports the following bounded statements:

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Keep the evidence boundary at these traced claims. They support a review of identity sensors, connected directories, cloud security services, event flows, roles, alerts, and investigation handoffs; they do not support conclusions outside the source’s stated conditions.

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What the source does not establish

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The integration is marked Preview and does not prove that every SailPoint account is correlated or every risk is detected. No current deployment state or change approval follows from the source alone. Validate Active Directory, Windows DNS, time, certificates, cloud identity, endpoint telemetry, network paths, and security operations, and treat examples or options as conditional inputs rather than defaults.

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Applicability questions

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DSE recommendation:

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DSE recommends using the cited source as the evidence anchor for this decision. Anchor the review in the cited section and keep observation separate from interpretation. Record the source location, examined part of identity sensors, connected directories, cloud security services, event flows, roles, alerts, and investigation handoffs, observed and expected states, owner, and reason for deviation.

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For an approved change, define prerequisites, a limited test path, success and stop conditions, monitoring, and rollback. Check Active Directory, Windows DNS, time, certificates, cloud identity, endpoint telemetry, network paths, and security operations in design order. Protect credentials, keys, recovery material, personal data, and sensitive topology in evidence.

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Verification and evidence

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Tie each conclusion back to Opening overview; Capabilities table and to observable material such as integration configuration, connectivity tests, event timestamps, alert correlation, role assignments, and case records. Preserve provenance and stable identifiers without copying secrets into the evidence set.

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Record the decision even when no change is made, including uncertainty and the next trigger. Use safe testing conditions for disruptive work, preserve rollback proof, and revisit the conclusion after relevant platform, dependency, vendor, or ownership changes.

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Official references

\n", "content_text": "Keep this document to one review outcome: Extend identity threat investigations to SailPoint-managed accounts. Only the official source and traced locations below supply facts. Confirm applicability before acting.\nSource fact:\nThe official How Microsoft Defender for Identity protects your SailPoint Identity Security Cloud accounts (Preview) from Microsoft supports the following bounded statements:\n\nConnecting SailPoint Identity Security Cloud extends detection, investigation, and response across cloud and on-premises identity infrastructure. The research record locates this support at Opening overview.\nThe integration adds SailPoint accounts to the identity inventory, correlates them with Active Directory and Entra identities, and exposes SailPoint data in advanced hunting. The research record locates this support at Capabilities table.\n\nKeep the evidence boundary at these traced claims. 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Validate Active Directory, Windows DNS, time, certificates, cloud identity, endpoint telemetry, network paths, and security operations, and treat examples or options as conditional inputs rather than defaults.\nApplicability questions\n\nFor source statement 1 at Opening overview, which observable configuration, record, or test can confirm applicability here?\nFor source statement 2 at Capabilities table, which observable configuration, record, or test can confirm applicability here?\nWhich deployed instance of identity sensors, connected directories, cloud security services, event flows, roles, alerts, and investigation handoffs will be compared with the source, and why that instance?\nHow will the review distinguish a source mismatch from a failure in Active Directory, Windows DNS, time, certificates, cloud identity, endpoint telemetry, network paths, and security operations?\nWho approves the conclusion, exception, test window, and rollback threshold?\n\nDSE recommendation:\nDSE recommends using the cited source as the evidence anchor for this decision. Anchor the review in the cited section and keep observation separate from interpretation. Record the source location, examined part of identity sensors, connected directories, cloud security services, event flows, roles, alerts, and investigation handoffs, observed and expected states, owner, and reason for deviation.\nFor an approved change, define prerequisites, a limited test path, success and stop conditions, monitoring, and rollback. Check Active Directory, Windows DNS, time, certificates, cloud identity, endpoint telemetry, network paths, and security operations in design order. Protect credentials, keys, recovery material, personal data, and sensitive topology in evidence.\nVerification and evidence\nTie each conclusion back to Opening overview; Capabilities table and to observable material such as integration configuration, connectivity tests, event timestamps, alert correlation, role assignments, and case records. Preserve provenance and stable identifiers without copying secrets into the evidence set.\nRecord the decision even when no change is made, including uncertainty and the next trigger. Use safe testing conditions for disruptive work, preserve rollback proof, and revisit the conclusion after relevant platform, dependency, vendor, or ownership changes.\nOfficial references\n\nHow Microsoft Defender for Identity protects your SailPoint Identity Security Cloud accounts (Preview) — Microsoft", "content_markdown": "Keep this document to one review outcome: Extend identity threat investigations to SailPoint-managed accounts. Only the official source and traced locations below supply facts. Confirm applicability before acting.\n\n## Source fact:\n\nThe official [How Microsoft Defender for Identity protects your SailPoint Identity Security Cloud accounts (Preview)](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-for-identity/sail-point-overview) from Microsoft supports the following bounded statements:\n\n- Connecting SailPoint Identity Security Cloud extends detection, investigation, and response across cloud and on-premises identity infrastructure. The research record locates this support at Opening overview.\n\n- The integration adds SailPoint accounts to the identity inventory, correlates them with Active Directory and Entra identities, and exposes SailPoint data in advanced hunting. The research record locates this support at Capabilities table.\n\nKeep the evidence boundary at these traced claims. They support a review of identity sensors, connected directories, cloud security services, event flows, roles, alerts, and investigation handoffs; they do not support conclusions outside the source’s stated conditions.\n\n## What the source does not establish\n\nThe integration is marked Preview and does not prove that every SailPoint account is correlated or every risk is detected. No current deployment state or change approval follows from the source alone. Validate Active Directory, Windows DNS, time, certificates, cloud identity, endpoint telemetry, network paths, and security operations, and treat examples or options as conditional inputs rather than defaults.\n\n## Applicability questions\n\n- For source statement 1 at Opening overview, which observable configuration, record, or test can confirm applicability here?\n\n- For source statement 2 at Capabilities table, which observable configuration, record, or test can confirm applicability here?\n\n- Which deployed instance of identity sensors, connected directories, cloud security services, event flows, roles, alerts, and investigation handoffs will be compared with the source, and why that instance?\n\n- How will the review distinguish a source mismatch from a failure in Active Directory, Windows DNS, time, certificates, cloud identity, endpoint telemetry, network paths, and security operations?\n\n- Who approves the conclusion, exception, test window, and rollback threshold?\n\n## DSE recommendation:\n\nDSE recommends using the cited source as the evidence anchor for this decision. 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Preserve provenance and stable identifiers without copying secrets into the evidence set.\n\nRecord the decision even when no change is made, including uncertainty and the next trigger. 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