Ninety-five percent of Fortune 500 companies use Active Directory, a 1990s technology, because their infrastructures are based on a 90s network architecture of on-premises PCs, applications, servers, ...

Consistency and clarity are necessary when managing a company's resources. Administrators need to know the Active Directory basics to see how the different services in this Microsoft tool work ...

When you struggle to remember your work password -- particularly after a long vacation -- you can accidentally trigger a security policy that freezes you out of your laptop until someone from IT can ...

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 ...

A key pillar of the shift to zero-trust architectures for cybersecurity is identity and access management. It’s crucial for organizations’ IT security teams to know who is on their networks and to ...

ResetNightmare and KerberLoss exploit weaknesses in how identity systems interpret usernames and service names, potentially ...

Although it's decades old and used in legacy IT systems, Microsoft's Active Directory remains foundational to many large enterprises — and likely will be for the foreseeable future. Yet, despite ...

Kerberos unconstrained delegation is one of those Active Directory configurations that can sit quietly for years and still create a disproportionate amount of risk. It is often introduced to make a ...

Microsoft has confirmed that the September 2025 security updates are causing Active Directory issues on Windows Server 2025 systems. As the company explains in a Windows release health dashboard ...