Microsoft's introduction of ADAM has set the stage for a major shift in the way directories are used for application authentication. META Trend: Driven by compliance and cost, organizations will focus ...

Microsoft is expanding capability of its directory technology to allow customers to more easily add new applications to their network. The directory technology essentially provides a network manager ...

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.

In this ESG Technical Review, ESG validated how Quest Recovery Manager for Active Directory Disaster Recovery Edition (RMADDRE) simplifies, accelerates and automates backup and recovery of Microsoft ...

Kerberoasting gives attackers offline paths to crack service account password, without triggering alerts. Learn from Specops Software how to protect your Active Directory with stronger SPN password ...

Last week, at Netpro’s Directory Experts Conference, Stuart Kwan, Microsoft director of Program Management for Identity and Access, delivered the keynote, a roadmap for Active Directory and identity ...

French startup Alsid leverages dynamic threat scoring and complexity ratings to recommend Active Directory remediations that don’t require the deployment of agents ...

Microsoft this week announced a preview of custom claims providers for Azure Active Directory users. Custom claims providers let organizations map claims into a token via an API. Microsoft's example ...

Microsoft Active Directory debuted 22 years ago. In computer age, that’s old technology. Threat actors like old technology because it often has legacy code or processes that are not secured to modern ...

First and foremost is Sean Metcalf’s Active Directory Security blog. If you are lucky enough to catch his talks in person, you will find that they are full of tips and explanations of how attacks ...

Microsoft on Wednesday advised organizations using Active Directory to take a couple steps to protect against Kerberos resource-based constrained delegation relay attacks. The steps to take and the ...

Ten years ago today, Microsoft released its Active Directory technology to skepticism that it could build an infrastructure technology to anchor user management and access control. Now the software is ...