Securing Microsoft Active Directory (AD) involves dealing with a mixed bag of risks, ranging from misconfigurations to unpatched vulnerabilities. That's why many current cyber-attacks involve a breach ...

Microsoft’s May Patch Tuesday update is triggering authentication errors. Microsoft is alerting customers that its May Patch Tuesday update is causing authentications errors and failures tied to ...

Organizations that have implemented the "Log in with Microsoft" feature in their Microsoft Azure Active Directory environments could potentially be vulnerable to an authentication bypass that opens ...

I'm trying to set up an AD LDS instance on a non-AD bound Server 2012 box to do some testing with an existing web application that connects to LDAP using the DOMAIN\sAMAccountName style of ...

I have a situation wherein I have a unix host that needs to connect to a windows host using ssh, authenticating as a domain user. Using the ssh connection, a .vbs script is to be run that interacts ...

Microsoft this week announced a preview of "Authentication Strength," a new control for organizations using the Azure Active Directory Conditional Access service. Authentication Strength lets IT pros ...

As is standard with technologies in the cloud, the features in Azure Active Directory are on the move. The Azure version of Active Directory differs from its on-premises version in many ways, ...

For a long time the only way to use Active Directory (AD) for VPN authentication and authorization was to use a RADIUS server such as Cisco ACS that could use AD as an external database. With the ...