Microsoft confirms a 3-phase strategy to deprecate NTLM, improve auditing, prioritize Kerberos, and disable NTLM by default ...

Finally, with Windows Server 2025 and Windows 11 24H2, Microsoft is taking a definitive step to eliminate an historical security weakness: NTLM v1 is being completely removed! It was already disabled ...

Cross-platform management vendor Centrify this week introduced an auditing tool that lets Windows shops log, monitor and audit the activity of their users working in Unix and Linux environments.

Microsoft is preparing one of the most consequential security shifts in Windows in decades, turning off NTLM authentication by default and pushing organizations toward modern, Kerberos based sign in.

Future Windows updates will disable NTLM authentication, bolstering security and protecting users against legacy protocol vulnerabilities.

We're trying to enable auditing on our Windows 2000 Active Directory domain to monitor logon and logoff times for users.<br><br>I enabled "Audit account logon events" on my Default Domain Controllers ...

Microsoft has announced plans to disable the 33-year-old NTLM authentication protocol by default in future Windows releases ...

I need to audit access on a specific folder on a file server. I have enabled "Object access" in the local policy and configured the folder to audit access from my user account "full control" success ...

Cyber Security News In order to prioritise more secure Kerberos-based authentication and due to security flaws that leave ...

Microsoft rolls out new Kerberos protections to block RC4 encryption, with enforcement mode becoming mandatory for domain controllers in 2026.