The proliferation of new top-level domains (TLDs) has exacerbated a well-known security weakness: Many organizations set up their internal Microsoft authentication systems years ago using domain names ...

On the surface, Active Directory groups are a simple and straightforward way to manage identities (users and/or computers) and assign permissions. Users or computers are added as group members, and ...

hoping some one has seen this issue and can lend a hand here. I've been tasked with setting up LDAP over SSL (TLS) for a Windows domain controller. This requires an SSL certificate to encrypt LDAP ...

Microsoft has extended Entra’s powerful access control capabilities to on-premises applications — but you’ll need to rid your network of NTLM to take advantage of adding cloud features to your Active ...

Microsoft on Wednesday advised organizations using Active Directory to take a couple steps to protect against Kerberos resource-based constrained delegation relay attacks. The steps to take and the ...

Microsoft has released out-of-band (OOB) Windows updates to address a known issue affecting local audit logon policies in Active Directory Group Policy. As the company explained, these local policy ...

Microsoft is urging customers to patch two Active Directory domain controller bugs after a PoC tool was publicly released on Dec. 12. A proof-of-concept tool has been published that leverages two ...

Active Directory is at the center of many attacks as it is still the predominant source of identity and access management in the enterprise. Hackers commonly target Active Directory with various ...

In two previous articles (here and here) I shared some classic Active Directory mistakes people have made that got their companies into serious trouble. Here’s another mistake that on the face of it ...