The steep rise in cryptocurrency market capitalization, not surprisingly, mirrors a marked increase in threats and attacks that target or leverage cryptocurrencies. But Microsoft researchers are observing an even more interesting trend: the evolution of related malware and their techniques, ... continue reading

Microsoft processes 24 trillion signals every 24 hours, and we have blocked billions of attacks in the last year alone. Microsoft Security tracks more than 35 unique ransomware families and 250 unique threat actors across observed nation-state, ransomware, and criminal ... continue reading

Windows Hello for Business (WHfB) provides a password-less experience for users to log into their Windows 10 or 11 device. However, a challenge remains when accessing remote systems. This can be via MMC console for example to access Active Directory ... continue reading

Howdy folks! My name is Samuel Devasahayam and I’m a Group Product Manager at Microsoft, focused on our Authentication platform. Over the past few years, we’ve seen thousands of customers migrate millions of apps and users from Active Directory Federation ... continue reading

Azure Active Directory's Conditional Access feature is great for reducing risk during sign-in attempts, by analyzing the user and sign-in conditions and applying appropriate policy controls. These can include prompting for multi-factor authentication or blocking the sign-in attempt. Unfortunately, some ... continue reading

Sue Bohn, Vice President of Program Management, Identity and Network Access Division, Microsoft Jay Kelley, Senior Manager of BIG-IP Security Product Marketing, F5 Erin Verna, Principal Product Marketing Manager, F5 Namita Singh, Senior Product Manager, F5 Hello! I’m Sue Bohn, ... continue reading

With Salesforce’s recent requirement of enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA) to access Salesforce products, we wanted to share how Azure Active Directory can support you on this journey. With organizations supporting hybrid work and employees using a variety of applications to ... continue reading

In recent weeks, Microsoft Security teams have been actively tracking a large-scale social engineering and extortion campaign against multiple organizations with some seeing evidence of destructive elements. As this campaign has accelerated, our teams have been focused on detection, customer ... continue reading

We’re excited to share with you our latest Azure AD workbook, Authentication Prompt Analysis! You can find all our previous workbooks at Azure Monitor workbooks for reports.  If you haven’t setup your logs to use log analytics yet, you can ... continue reading

Hello Everyone, Rapid change is a growing reality in cloud services. In Azure AD alone, we are making hundreds of changes every year including new feature releases, changes to existing features, as well as deprecations and retirements. We’ve heard from ... continue reading