As the number of Microsoft Azure services and users expand, the need for a foundational, shared identity platform is clear. Microsoft is putting significant emphasis on Azure Active Directory (Azure ...

Brien walks through the steps necessary for authenticating users on-premises and in the cloud with Microsoft's Windows Azure Active Directory. As companies move more and more applications and services ...

IT pros should switch Azure Active Directory conditional access policies that were created using the "classic" Azure portal to policies supported by the new Azure Portal. The new Azure Portal is also ...

An Azure Active Directory issue causing authentication problems is affecting a subset of Microsoft customers worldwide across many MIcrosoft services, including Office, Dynamics, Teams, Xbox Live and ...

On Oct. 14, Microsoft announced the preview release of Azure Active Directory Domain Services or, as I like to call it, a domain in a cloud. What is really interesting about this preview is that ...

Imagine having unlimited attempts to guess someone’s username and password without getting caught. That would make an ideal scenario for a stealthy threat actor—leaving server admins with little to no ...

Just a day after Microsoft announced its new Entra cloud identity services portfolio, one of Entra's core products suffered wobbly performance for more than 12 hours. Microsoft warned that users of ...

Microsoft announced that 16 new Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) lower-privileged roles are available today in preview to help admins improve security by decreasing the number of Global ...

Hybrid cloud identity and access management services add complexity and opportunity for attackers to network authentication processes, as recently demonstrated for Azure AD. It’s been common knowledge ...