Windows Identity Foundation turns authentication over to token servers, reducing demands on developers while preparing the way for a service-oriented world. It also integrates with the authorization ...

Creating secure applications is hard. And, arguably, the most critical part of managing security is authentication -- ensuring that only approved users can access your application or site and that you ...

Seven Windows authentication paths bypass MFA protections, enabling credential attacks through AD, NTLM, Kerberos, RDP, SMB, and service accounts.

Steve Riley, a senior security strategist (that’s a “3S”) in Microsoft’s Security Technology Unit, recently posted a paper on Microsoft’s Web site that attempts to explain the difference among three ...

In the last decade, identity and access management has undergone a profound transformation. Passwords, long considered the default method for authentication, have increasingly become the weakest link ...