Defender integrates seamlessly with Microsoft’s Active Directory ensuring that the proven business benefits of cost avoidance and cost reduction are maintained throughout your security infrastructure. Where other authentication solutions employ their own proprietary databases, Defender uses Active Directory as its data repository. One of the most important benefits of this integration is that the standard, familiar Active Directory Users and Computers administration tool is used to manage the entire Defender environment. Total integration with Microsoft Active Directory means that all of the well known Active Directory benefits such as scalability, replication, high availability and automated backup apply to Defender. |
Existing Windows users are simply assigned Defender policies and tokens to become Defender users. To further ease administration, the Defender Token Self-Registration Service can be used to enable Windows users to assign their own tokens. The installation of Defender does not affect the functionality of Windows; domain policies, logins etc remain under the control of Windows. Two-factor authentication for Windows logins can be optionally enabled by means of the Defender Desktop Login component.
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