Microsoft is bringing multifactor authentication (MFA) to organizations that manage Azure Active Directory tenancies. The idea is to make MFA a "baseline policy" for all organizations with Azure ...

Azure Active Directory Authentication has been built in from the beginning, but Nielsen writes that it has been improved "using a server-side flow simplifying client authentication significantly." ...

Microsoft this week announced that it has updated its preview of Azure Active Directory Pass-Through Authentication. Pass-Through Authentication is Microsoft's more simplified means of accessing ...

Microsoft is extending Azure Active Directory with two new authentication services for developers writing apps and services. AD B2C and AD B2B are in public preview now.

In Azure AD, however, traditional pass-the-hash and relay attacks don’t work because Azure AD doesn’t use NTLM or Kerberos, which are the standard authentication protocols on Windows networks.

Azure AD Seamless SSO service automatically signs users in to their corporate devices, connected to their workplace network. With Seamless SSO enabled, users won't have to type in their passwords ...

It's been a rough week for Microsoft users who have first- and third-party apps that rely on Azure Active Directory for authentication. Microsoft has published a root-cause analysis of its issues.

In a new blog post, the company revealed that it’s adding multi-factor authentication as the default security setting for existing Azure customers who haven’t changed that setting on their own.

MILWAUKEE, Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PKWARE, a global leader in automated data security, today announced that it is integrating Microsoft Azure Active Directory (AD) Authentication to its ...

PTA is one of three authentication options used for hybrid identities in Azure AD, the others being password-hash synchronisation (PHS) and identity federation.