7 Best Security Add-Ons for Microsoft Entra in 2026
Key Takeaways
- Microsoft Entra authenticates accounts and governs applications that federate to it. Several security functions sit outside that boundary by design, and Microsoft’s own documentation points to partners for them.
- The gaps worth closing are specific rather than general: document and biometric proofing, privileged session control, cloud entitlement management, legacy protocol coverage, hardware authenticators and directory recovery.
- Integration depth varies more than feature lists suggest. Some add-ons are click-to-configure through Microsoft Security Store; others need their own billing contract and REST work.
Most Entra deployments reach a similar point. Conditional Access is tuned, MFA is enforced, access reviews are running, and then a set of problems turns up that the licence does not cover. A user loses every registered authentication method and the helpdesk becomes the weakest link. A privileged session needs recording for an auditor. A service account authenticating over Kerberos sits entirely outside Conditional Access.
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