Microsoft recently announced its plans to disable the legacy New Technology LAN Manager (NTLM) protocol by default in upcoming Windows releases. The software giant disclosed that the move is designed ...

Microsoft announced that it will disable the 30-year-old NTLM authentication protocol by default in upcoming Windows releases due to security vulnerabilities that expose organizations to cyberattacks.

Microsoft said last year that it wants to improve authentication security by eventually killing off NTLM sometime in the future. Today, the company has announced the deprecation of the feature. Back ...

Microsoft is introducing IAKerb and LocalKDC in Windows Insider builds to reduce NTLM dependency and expand Kerberos ...

For the past few years, Microsoft has been talking about how it is slowly, but surely, phasing out NTLM in Windows installations in favor of Kerberos-based alternatives. Although some versions of the ...

Microsoft this week indicated that it plans to eliminate the need to use the New Technology LAN Manager (NTLM) protocol in Windows 11, with Kerberos taking its place. NTLM use has long been a ...

There can be multiple reasons why you may want to disable NTML Authentication in Windows Domain. Some of the most common reasons are: NTML is not secure and offers weak encryption. In the case of NTML ...

Authentication sits at the heart of enterprise security, making passwords and the authentication mechanisms that use them, prime targets for cybercriminals. For more than 90% of organizations that use ...

NTLM is a less secure protocol for authenticating Windows network access. Follow these steps to begin migration off it or to limit its use. Older protocols are hard to kill. From consumer-based ...