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.

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.

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.

Microsoft is looking to better protect hybrid workers connecting to its Azure Active Directory (AD) service via iOS or Android endpoints from phishing and password -stealing attacks.