The new Microsoft Azure Active Directory puts more on-premises features into the cloud version and links to more than 1,200 Software as a Service (SaaS) apps. Last year's release of Microsoft Azure ...

As the number of Microsoft Azure services and users expand, the need for a foundational, shared identity platform is clear. Microsoft is putting significant emphasis on Azure Active Directory (Azure ...

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An Azure Active Directory issue causing authentication problems is affecting a subset of Microsoft customers worldwide across many MIcrosoft services, including Office, Dynamics, Teams, Xbox Live and ...

HOBOKEN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Semperis, the pioneer of identity-driven cyber resilience for enterprises, today announced the preview release of Directory Services Protector 3.6, which simplifies ...

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 ...

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 they have removed the 16 character Azure Active Directory password limit and admins can now use up to a maximum of 256 characters. This aligns the passwords lengths with ...

Windows Azure Active Directory has processed more than 200 billion authentications for Microsoft services in two years, and it now processes an average of 4.7 billion logins a week, the company ...

Still using Active Directory to manage identity for remote workers? You might want to consider moving to Azure Active Directory. The pandemic has pushed admins to realize that identity should be the ...

On Oct. 14, Microsoft announced the preview release of Azure Active Directory Domain Services or, as I like to call it, a domain in a cloud. What is really interesting about this preview is that ...