When was the last time you reviewed your password policy? It's probably time to update, and Microsoft Azure has a good tool to set up and manage that policy. If you are like most IT administrators, ...

This aligns the passwords lengths with those of on-premises Windows Active Directory services. With these changes, accounts managed in Azure AD now have a a minimum password policy of 8 characters and ...

Microsoft's Azure Active Directory Password Protection feature is now deemed ready for deployment by organizations, having reached "general availability" status, according to Microsoft's announcement ...

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Microsoft has finally come to the conclusion that, as far as passwords are concerned, size really does matter after all. Alex Simons, vice-president of program management at Microsoft's Identity ...

Edit: Despite my comment below, I'd still be skeptical of a corporation being able to implement it properly. Edit 2: The problem is that MS advertises it with this: "No additional components needed on ...

Microsoft announced that 16 new Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) lower-privileged roles are available today in preview to help admins improve security by decreasing the number of Global ...

With the final release of Windows 10, the use of traditional Active Directory may be waning, and Azure AD on the rise. Here are some security concerns that need to be addressed when making the switch.

For a successful brute-force attack they would need to use a lot of tries on the password, given this is HTTP based it might not be super fast. Also if they get too many requests would not some DDoS ...