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Microsoft Entra Verified ID
Start your decentralized identity journey with Microsoft Entra Verified ID—included free with any Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) subscription.
Reimagine secure access with Microsoft Entra
Discover the latest identity and access innovations and how to strengthen your defenses with Microsoft Entra.
Verify once. Use everywhere.
Microsoft Entra Verified ID is a managed verifiable credentials service based on open standards.
Quickly onboard employees, partners, and customers
Digitally validate identity information to ensure trustworthy self-service enrollment and faster onboarding.
Access high-value apps and resources
Quickly verify an individual’s credentials and status to grant least-privilege access with confidence.
Provide self-service account recovery
Replace support calls and security questions with a streamlined self-service process to verify identities.
Enable credentials to be used anywhere
Ensure that credentials are interoperable and reusable with a solution that supports open standards.
Verified ID Capabilities
Easily set up and deploy
Start issuing and accepting verifiable credentials in minutes by configuring Verified ID in your Microsoft Entra administrator portal.
Create and issue credentials
Customize and configure verifiable credentials for individuals using a prebuilt template or your own rules and design files.
Verify credentials
Enable interactions that respect people’s privacy. Validate a Verified ID credential with their approval through their digital wallet.
Suspend or invalidate credentials
Revoke or suspend the active verified status of someone’s credential while allowing the invalidated credential to remain in their possession.
How do verifiable credentials work?
Based on open standards, Verified ID automates verification of identity credentials and enables privacy-protected interactions between organizations and users.
Microsoft Entra Verified ID is named a Leader
KuppingerCole has rated Verified ID as an Overall Leader, Innovation Leader, and Market Leader in the 2022 Leadership Compass for Verified Identity.
How customers are using Verified ID
Microsoft Entra Verified ID
​​​​​​Verified ID is currently available for free.
Verified ID is currently included with any Azure Active Directory subscription, including Azure AD Free, at no additional cost.
- Verify and issue credentials from your organization for any unique identity attributes.
- Empower your users to have ownership of their digital credentials and greater visibility.
- Reduce organizational risk and simplify the audit process.
- Provide developers with a seamless way to create user-centric, serverless apps.
Start your decentralized identity journey by enabling Verified ID for free in the Microsoft Entra admin center. Quickly onboard and begin issuing and verifying credentials for your users today.
Be more efficient
Save up to 60 percent by using Microsoft Security rather than multiple point solutions.1
Microsoft identity verification partners
Tap into the network of Microsoft Entra Verified ID partners for help setting up verifiable credentials.
Explore the Microsoft Entra product family
Safeguard connections between people, apps, resources, and devices with multicloud identity and network access products.
Identity and access management
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Azure Active Directory (becoming Microsoft Entra ID)
Manage and protect users, apps, workloads, and devices.
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Microsoft Entra ID Governance
Protect, monitor, and audit access to critical assets.
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Microsoft Entra External ID
Provide your customers and partners with secure access to any app.
New identity categories
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Microsoft Entra Verified ID
Issue and verify identity credentials based on open standards.
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Microsoft Entra Permissions Management
Manage identity permissions across your multicloud infrastructure.
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Microsoft Entra Workload ID
Help apps and services to securely access cloud resources.
Network access
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Microsoft Entra Internet Access
Secure access to internet, software as a service, and Microsoft 365 apps.
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Microsoft Entra Private Access
Help users to securely connect to private apps from anywhere.
Documentation and training
Why decentralized identity matters
Reduce risk and empower people to own and control their identity data.
Key technical concepts
Understand digital direct presentation, verifiable credentials, and decentralized identifiers.
Developer guide
Create serverless apps that store data with users through the Microsoft verifiable credentials platform.
Implementation partners
Accelerate your decentralized identity transformation with help from Microsoft partners.
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