identity management

Microsoft’s engineering team solved a deceptively hard problem: how to preserve absolute anonymity for sensitive employee groups while moving entirely to a cloud-first operating model—and to do it quickly, at enterprise scale, without adding new administrative burden. The result is a...

Token Security’s latest week of communications sharpened a single, urgent message: as enterprises rapidly adopt AI copilots and autonomous agents, identity — not just models or data — is the primary attack surface that must be discovered, governed and controlled. The company reinforced that...

Microsoft’s long-running allowance for NTLM-based authentication is finally being reworked into history: the company has laid out a phased plan to clamp down on Network NTLM and push Windows environments toward Kerberos-first authentication, a move that promises real security gains but will...

Microsoft confirmed a full restoration of Microsoft 365 services on January 22, 2026 after a wide-reaching outage that disrupted Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, Entra-backed sign‑ins and several management portals for many customers worldwide. Background The January outage is the latest instance in a...

Microsoft's cloud productivity stack experienced a disruption on January 21, 2026, with Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams reporting widespread problems early in the U.S. workday and recovery messages appearing within a few hours as Microsoft traced the impact to a third‑party networking...

Microsoft’s long-standing prescription that users should routinely change their Windows passwords has finally been exposed for what security researchers and standards bodies have long argued: a low-value, usability-damaging relic that produces more problems than protection. The change in...

Upgrading domain controllers to Windows Server 2025 is a major milestone, but the work doesn’t end at promotion and replication. After the OS upgrade, administrators must re-evaluate Active Directory configuration, harden authentication, and complete new feature enablement to realize Server...

Irish organisations are moving from emergency-era digital fixes to deliberate design: hybrid work is now an operational baseline, and the real conversation has shifted to how artificial intelligence can be woven into that hybrid fabric to raise productivity, protect data, and reshape jobs...

Microsoft's cloud fabric suffered a significant disruption that left millions frustrated and multiple high‑profile services — from Microsoft 365 to Xbox and third‑party sites like Starbucks and several airlines — intermittently or wholly unavailable as engineers raced to roll back a faulty edge...

A design oversight in the Azure API Management (APIM) Developer Portal lets attackers create user accounts on tenants that administrators have visually disabled signup for — and Microsoft’s public guidance treats this behavior as by design, leaving organizations to rely on configuration changes...

Microsoft’s claim that it has been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Access Management for the ninth consecutive year crystallizes a larger narrative: the company is wiring identity into the center of enterprise security as AI accelerates both opportunity and risk. This...

Microsoft’s Ignite 2025 felt less like a product parade and more like a strategic course correction: the company is repositioning AI from a parade of impressive features into an enterprise-grade governance-first platform that treats AI agents as auditable, identity-bound services rather than...

Microsoft’s cloud and productivity ecosystems suffered a high‑impact disruption on October 29, 2025, when an inadvertent configuration change inside Azure’s global edge fabric — Azure Front Door (AFD) — triggered DNS and routing anomalies that left Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Xbox/Minecraft...

Microsoft’s cloud backbone stumbled in the afternoon UTC window on October 29, 2025, knocking a broad swath of first‑party services and thousands of customer sites offline as engineers raced to contain a failure traced to Azure Front Door and related DNS/routing behaviour. This outage left...

The mid‑afternoon collapse of Microsoft's Azure edge fabric knocked airline check‑in systems, retail apps and games offline and produced a blunt reminder: when cloud edge and identity layers hiccup, the visible damage is immediate, cross‑industry and costly. Alaska Airlines reported its website...

Microsoft’s cloud fabric faltered again this week as an Azure outage — traced to instability in Azure Front Door and a regional networking misconfiguration — produced widespread authentication failures and partial service blackouts that affected Microsoft 365, Teams, the Azure and Microsoft 365...

Microsoft’s announcement that extended support for Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM) 2016 will end on January 9, 2029, is a deadline many organizations can no longer treat as distant background noise — it’s a firm timeline with real operational, security, and compliance consequences. MIM has been...

Microsoft’s cloud productivity stack was briefly knocked off balance on October 9, 2025, when an Azure Front Door (AFD) capacity failure interrupted sign-ins and access to Microsoft 365 services across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, blocking administrators from the Microsoft 365 admin...

Microsoft corrected a potentially catastrophic identity flaw in Entra ID that could have allowed cross‑tenant impersonation of any user — including Global Administrators — by abusing undocumented internal tokens and a validation gap in a legacy API; the publicly tracked identifier for this issue...

Microsoft Azure customers reported widespread trouble accessing the Azure Portal and other services on October 9, 2025, after Microsoft confirmed a capacity loss in Azure Front Door (AFD) that produced intermittent portal outages and downstream service degradation across parts of Europe and...