Microsoft has released Active Directory Federation Services 2.0, a key component of its effort to provide single sign-on federated identity management across enterprise domains and to cloud services.

Managing user access in businesses today is something like playing traffic cop in an intersection of a thousand roads. From Web-based applications to homegrown programs, from desktop PCs to the latest ...

Last week I mentioned the decided benefits of Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) – the biggest reason to upgrade your Windows Server 2003 installations to R2. It’s a great way to allow access ...

A newly discovered vulnerability in Microsoft Corp.’s Activity Directory Federation Services allows hackers to bypass multifactor authentication safeguards in a potentially serious threat to a ...

The Microsoft Incident Response (IR) team this month published a fairly comprehensive guide for IT pros responsible for securing computing environments. The long "lessons learned" IR team post is for ...

Microsoft is poised to announce the release to the Web (RTW) of its "Geneva" Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS). ""=""> is part of Microsoft's identity/security platform, as well as of its ...

Single sign-on. Symbolically at least, it may be a kind of grail for IT staffers who today need to administer thousands of user accounts -- often a jumble of weakly-related identities stored in a ...

Windows Server 2003 R2 debuted without much fanfare, but Microsoft delivered on some long-awaited features and functions, not the least of which is technology for identity federation. Periodically in ...

A password spraying attack is a specialized password attack commonly used by attackers that is reasonably effective and helps avoid detection by traditional password defenses. Instead of trying many ...

Active Directory Federation Service (AD FS) enables single sign-on functionality, which offers customers a streamlined user experience while accessing the web-based applications of an organization.

With Windows Server 2012 R2, Microsoft has built in a reverse-proxy feature. The Web Application Proxy securely publishes internal resources out to the Internet for access by both corporate-owned ...