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

LAS VEGAS – Directory management vendor NetPro opened its fifth annual Directory Experts Conference Monday with upgrades to its software that move it into the realm of managing and monitoring not only ...

In the past several years, directory services--a singular database repository of all end users, services, devices and network peripherals--have emerged as a core component of the enterprise ...

In the history of enterprise software, the offering that has arguably least lived up to its potential is Microsoft Active Directory. Deployed just about everywhere, most IT organizations today use ...

In an era where 75% of security breaches are attributed to weak authentication, the importance of robust cybersecurity measures has never been greater. Recognizing this critical need, TACACS.net has ...

In this slideshow, Azaleos identifies tips focusing on Active Directory improvements. They have collected the following best practices from their network operations centers for making Active Directory ...

Scenario:<P>Home network, Win2K server with Active Directory<BR>ICS on another computer on the network (not the server)<P>How do I set this up so the dialup connection on one of the Win2K Pro machines ...

Federated identity management, or FIM, is just one of the latest networking buzzwords to hit mainstream. FIM involves a set of agreements for trusting repositories of accounts located in two or more ...

Editor’s note: When originally published this article said that by using dynamic user identification (UID) generation, users might be assigned a different UID number each time they logged onto a ...

Compromised Active Directory credentials allow attackers to log in without exploits, driving modern authentication-based initial access.