Microsoft streamlines Teams experience for multi-tenant enterprises
Microsoft is releasing new features for multi-tenant enterprises. These companies feature multiple access management solutions in the form of Azure Active Directory.
New features for multi-tenant organizations (MTOs) on Teams should make it easier to collaborate and access files and folders fro... Read more
Serious Azure Active Directory vulnerability resolved by Microsoft
Microsoft has fixed an exploit in Azure Active Directory (AD) authentication. The vulnerability allowed intruders to escalate account privileges and control the entire account.
Organizations deploy Azure AD to control user access. Examples include providing the backend for Office 365 users or ce... Read more
Microsoft Bing penetrated through misconfiguration in Azure Active Directory
Researchers from security specialist Wiz Research penetrated the backend of Microsoft Bing through a misconfiguration in Azure App Services and Azure Functions. This allowed them to manipulate search results and add malicious code.
The security specialists discovered the so-called BingBang vulne... Read more
Azure AD update adds time-limited credentials
Microsoft is allowing Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) administrators to generate time-limited credentials. These credentials can be used for passwordless authentication and restoring accounts after losing credentials or FIDO2 keys.
The Temporary Access Pass (TAP) functionality can be used for ... Read more
Azure Active Directory gives way to Microsoft Entra
From here on out, Microsoft's identity and access management solutions are known as Microsoft Entra.
The tech giant is rebranding several products. In April, all data governance and compliance solutions were grouped under Microsoft Purview. Not long after, Microsoft renamed every managed securit... Read more
Microsoft implements tighter security for Azure Active Directory
Microsoft is pushing more secure default settings to all Azure Active Directory (AD) users.
Azure AD's default settings feature a set of basic mechanisms for identity security. These mechanisms include factor authentication (MFA) and security protocols such as Conditional Access and Identity Pro... Read more
Microsoft launches outage mode to improve Active Directory uptime
Microsoft is aiming to improve the availability and uptime of Azure Active Directory (ADD). For this purpose, it has launched a backup authentication service. The service will soon allow ADD customers to use an 'outage mode' in case of downtime.
Downtime of Microsoft's Azure Active Directory (AA... Read more
SentinelOne launches zero trust integration in Microsoft Azure AD
SentinelOne is launching a ready-to-use integration in Azure Active Directory (AD). The so-called Singularity App for Azure AD allows administrators to have user policies in Azure AD automatically changed when SentinelOne detects an endpoint threat.
To understand how the introduction works, an u... Read more
Secureworks reveals Azure Active Directory flaw without a fix
Picture for a moment a scenario where you have as many attempts as you want to get a username and password right without getting caught. That is the kind of scenario threat actors look for, leaving admins with little to no visibility into the actions, let alone a way to stop them.
A newly discov... Read more
Microsoft’s Azure Virtual Desktop now works without Active Directory
Microsoft has declared Azure Virtual Desktop generally available with the VMs connected to Azure AD rather than Active Directory. However, the initial release is a bit crippled.
Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), once known as Windows Virtual Desktop, is Microsoft’s first-party Virtual Desktop Infra... Read more