Authentication protocols serve as the backbone of online security, enabling users to confirm their identities securely and access protected information and services. They define how claimants (users ...

The Exchange team, in a Friday announcement, explained how Exchange Server 2019 with Cumulative Update 2 (CU2) can help organizations rid themselves of old authentication protocols, which constitute a ...

An ancient network authentication protocol has received its first death notice. The protocol, which has roots going back to the first local area network days of the 1980s, is called Microsoft NTLM, ...

As organizations expand remotely and to the cloud, the need for authentication that reaches all corners of a growing network – without incurring security burnout – is necessary to balance productivity ...

Open source has encompassed all areas of software applications and services, so there was little doubt that authentication would, sooner or later, be part of this fast growing movement. OpenLDAP, the ...

For nearly 30 years, security experts have warned organizations to ditch the weak NTLM authentication protocol in Windows. But its use persists, even amidst easy ...

Choosing the wrong authentication protocol could undermine security and limit future expansion. These are the recommended protocols for common use cases. Whether you host your authentication system ...

FrontPage Remote Procedure Call and others set to be blocked in the name of 'Secure by Default' Microsoft has warned administrators that legacy authentication protocols will be blocked by default from ...

The pandemic has pushed the Department of Veterans Affairs to think beyond multifactor authentication to keep bad actors out of VA systems as it anticipates extended work-from-home policies. One of ...

The National Service Authority (NSA) has announced enhanced access protocols for the 2025/26 enrolment exercise, introducing ...

Yaron Kassner, CTO at Silverfort, discusses authentication-bypass bugs in Cisco ASA, F5 Big-IP, IBM QRadar and Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS. Authentication is the front gate to security systems, so if ...