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 ...

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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.

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 ...

Microsoft last week laid out the roadmap for its identity management platform, including federation services that will ship next year and eventually provide Web single sign-on features. Editor’s Note: ...

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 ...

Many companies believe Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) is the best choice for applications to integrate with AD. After all, both Active Directory and ADFS are from Microsoft and ADFS is ...

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 ...