Federated identity management, or FIM, is just one of the latest networking buzzwords to hit mainstream. FIM involves a set of agreements for trusting repositories of accounts located in two or more ...

What does Active Directory Federation Services do? Microsoft's traditional Active Directory technology stores usernames and passwords and uses them to manage and secure access to computers on a ...

Microsoft on Monday announced the availability of Azure Active Directory certificate-based authentication (CBA) at the public preview stage. CBA lets organizations authenticate with Azure AD using ...

As I said in the last issue, one of the highlights of last week’s European Identity Conference was Kim Cameron’s presentation on his new project, federated directories. In the presentation he ...

Microsoft on Wednesday described "MagicWeb" attacks by an advanced persistent threat group called "Nobelium," advising organizations using Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) to take hardening ...

LastPass by LogMeIn announced a new integration with Microsoft’s Active Directory Federation Services (“ADFS”), providing organizations utilizing Microsoft ADFS with the ability to allow employees to ...

Active Directory for Azure makes a large leap from the on-site AD that Windows administrators know well. While it leaves a lot behind, Azure Active Directory gives administrators ways to extend AD ...

A help desk phishing campaign targets an organization's Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) using spoofed login pages to steal credentials and bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA ...

Active Directory, a directory service provided by Microsoft Windows, plays a pivotal role in configuring permissions and network access for administrators. Comprising components such as Active ...