It's been a rough week for Microsoft users who have first- and third-party apps that rely on Azure Active Directory for authentication. Microsoft has published a root-cause analysis of its issues.

SSOGEN is now available on Azure Market for Microsoft customers to simplify the Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Single Sign-On Authentication for on-premise or cloud ERP Oracle e-Business Suite ...

In Azure AD, however, traditional pass-the-hash and relay attacks don’t work because Azure AD doesn’t use NTLM or Kerberos, which are the standard authentication protocols on Windows networks.

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 is bringing multifactor authentication (MFA) to organizations that manage Azure Active Directory tenancies. The idea is to make MFA a "baseline policy" for all organizations with Azure ...

Azure AD Pass-Through Authentication, available as a preview, uses a connector located on an organization's on-premises infrastructure to validate an end user requesting network access.

Microsoft is extending Azure Active Directory with two new authentication services for developers writing apps and services. AD B2C and AD B2B are in public preview now.

In the Azure AD environment, OAuth is used to help manage user access to external resources, such as Microsoft 365, the Azure portal, and thousands of other SaaS applications using OAuth apps.

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.

In a new blog post, the company revealed that it’s adding multi-factor authentication as the default security setting for existing Azure customers who haven’t changed that setting on their own.