As more organizations adopt modern authentication protocols, legacy authentication poses a growing risk to those who lag behind. The problem is, making a business-wide transition to modern ...

What if the very tools you rely on to secure your organization’s data are quietly becoming obsolete? That’s the reality facing businesses as Microsoft prepares to retire its legacy Multi-Factor ...

Just in case the drumbeat to adopt Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) hasn't yet sunk in, a new report from Okta reveals that organizations using Microsoft 365 "Legacy Authentication" (like passwords) ...

Microsoft is finally ripping out one of the weakest links in its identity stack, cutting off a legacy cipher that attackers have abused for years to walk straight into corporate networks. The move ...

If you've implemented multi-factor authentication, you should disable the default basic authentication to make sure attackers can't exploit it. Attackers will go after weaker credentials and passwords ...

Microsoft this week again appealed to organizations using Exchange Online to move away from using "Basic Authentication," reminding them that support for it will get dropped, starting on Oct. 1, 2022.

Microsoft says that Basic Authentication's removal from Exchange Online is being postponed until the second half of 2021 due to the current situation created by the COVID-19 pandemic. "In response to ...

To thwart password and phishing attacks, Microsoft is rolling out security defaults to a massive number of Azure Active Directory (AD) users. Microsoft began rolling out security defaults to customers ...

Microsoft on Monday announced a bunch or Azure Active Directory enhancements as part of its Ignite event happenings. Just a couple of the new Azure AD capabilities made the Ignite Day 1 keynote talk ...

Google’s Mandiant security division has come up with an unusual tactic to persuade organizations to stop using the aged and ...