Something like a product or customer that an organisation stores data about. Its characteristics are its attributes, and every individual record is one instance.
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- LIKE
Compares strings with a pattern that can contain the % and _ wildcards. Because it only understands character patterns, searching big volumes of text this way is much slower than using full-text search.
Related terms
- AI enrichment
Indexing-time process in Azure AI Search where skills such as OCR, key phrase extraction, entity recognition and image analysis turn raw content into fields that can be searched.
- Azure Language in Foundry Tools
Foundry Tool offering natural language processing over existing text, such as sentiment, key phrase extraction, entity recognition, PII detection, summarisation and language detection. Prebuilt features work without training, and nothing new is generated.
- BehaviorAnalytics
Holds enriched UEBA events in Microsoft Sentinel and feeds entity pages. Each row carries an InvestigationPriority between 0 and 10 indicating how far from normal the event is.
- Blast radius analysis
Replacing attack path analysis on the incident graph, this Defender view shows how a compromised entity might reach critical assets. The Microsoft Sentinel data lake is a prerequisite.
- Bookmark
Lets a threat hunter keep a Microsoft Sentinel query result, along with notes, entity mappings and MITRE ATT&CK tags, then attach it to an existing incident or raise a fresh incident from it.
- CA
Entity that issues digital certificates; point-to-site VPN needs one only when clients authenticate with root and client certificates, not when RADIUS or Entra ID is used.
- Custom NER
Trainable Azure Language capability for detecting the entity types your own domain cares about; it locates them without redacting anything.
- Enterprise Metamodel
A formal description of which kinds of entity an enterprise must describe and how those entities relate. It is used to test whether models are complete and consistent.