Since the first concept and launch of Cloud Services almost 20 years ago, cloud providers have been on a constant security improvement race in order to offer the best solutions to keep the user data ...

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 ...

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Managed Identity and virtual machine failures triggered knock-on problems throughout cloud platform Microsoft has reported two Azure service wobbles in as many days, including a disruption affecting ...

Microsoft this week announced some External Identities enhancements for Azure Active Directory users. External Identities, commercially released last year, provides identity support that lets ...

Microsoft this week announced the "general availability" (GA) commercial release of its External Identities capability in the Azure Active Directory service. In addition, some enhancements to the ...

Microsoft added that external MFA solutions and federated identity providers will continue to be supported and will meet the MFA requirement if they are configured to send an MFA claim. The ...

During its Ignite conference on Tuesday, Microsoft shared a progress update on its Secure Future Initiative (SFI), introduced a year ago, which included significant measures such as enforcing ...

A rash of cyberattacks has renewed attention on identity and access management (IAM), which is experiencing a surge in demand across enterprises today. Growth in such tools is driven by organizations’ ...