Active Directory, a directory service provided by Microsoft Windows, plays a pivotal role in configuring permissions and network access for administrators. Comprising components such as Active ...

Ninety-five percent of Fortune 500 companies use Active Directory, a 1990s technology, because their infrastructures are based on a 90s network architecture of on-premises PCs, applications, servers, ...

Ten years ago today, Microsoft released its Active Directory technology to skepticism that it could build an infrastructure technology to anchor user management and access control. Now the software is ...

A key pillar of the shift to zero-trust architectures for cybersecurity is identity and access management. It’s crucial for organizations’ IT security teams to know who is on their networks and to ...

Active Directory can provide the keys to the proverbial kingdom for threat actors, which is why Active Directory security is crucial. Securing identity environments is more crucial than ever as both ...

Most breaches don’t start with a clever hack—they start with a login. And when Active Directory (AD) is cluttered and outdated, it becomes the easiest way in. For many organizations, AD has quietly ...

Twenty-five years ago, Microsoft introduced Active Directory (AD) as a core feature of Windows 2000 Server, revolutionizing enterprise identity management. Although Windows 2000 has long since been ...

On the surface, Active Directory groups are a simple and straightforward way to manage identities (users and/or computers) and assign permissions. Users or computers are added as group members, and ...