Microsoft Corp. today announced that its long-lived and much-loved identity and access management service Azure Active Directory is being rebranded, and will henceforth be known as Microsoft Entra ID.

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 on Monday announced the availability of Azure Active Directory certificate-based authentication (CBA) at the public preview stage. CBA lets organizations authenticate with Azure AD using ...

With the final release of Windows 10, the use of traditional Active Directory may be waning, and Azure AD on the rise. Here are some security concerns that need to be addressed when making the switch.

Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) now allows admins to issue time-limited passcodes that can be used to register new passwordless authentication methods, during Windows onboarding, or to recover ...

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 ...

Researchers at Secureworks’ Counter Threat Unit (CTU) have warned of a new and potentially serious vulnerability affecting the pass-through authentication (PTA) hybrid identity authentication method ...

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 ...

Microsoft has announced that it will automatically enable stricter secure default settings known as 'security defaults' on all existing Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenants in late June 2022.