Microsoft this week announced a few Azure Active Directory improvements. The improvements include a "Converged Authentication Methods" addition for centralizing the management of authentication ...

Reaffirming its research that multifactor authentication prevents over 90% of account compromises, Microsoft is moving forward with Phase 2 of its mandatory Azure MFA rollout.

Starting in October, Microsoft will enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all Azure resource management actions to protect Azure clients from unauthorized access attempts.

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 ...

Microsoft on Wednesday rolled out a preview of its cloud-based multifactor authentication service that it had showcased at TechEd.

Secureworks researchers found what they say is a serious vulnerability in an Azure Active Directory authentication method, but Microsoft says it should not pose a serious risk to users.

Authentication methods have also been improved. Besides authentication via Azure Active Directory, Twitter, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft Account, other authentication methods can be customized.