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.

Microsoft's Azure cloud is hit with an AAD authentication issue, affecting many Microsoft services for a subset of users. After two hours, Microsoft started to roll out a fix, and as of March 16 ...

Hybrid cloud identity and access management services add complexity and opportunity for attackers to network authentication processes, as recently demonstrated for Azure AD.

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.

By configuring Azure AD to require YubiKeys for phishing-resistant authentication, organisations are eliminating an entire attack vector for their most privileged users and safeguarding their most ...