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

It’s time to stop relying on the insecure authentication protocol built into Windows. Microsoft is making it easier to switch to secure modern options. NTLM is a simple and straightforward ...

While Windows IT professionals deal with security on a daily basis, very few understand the under-the-hood protocol, Kerberos. Kerberos is a security protocol in Windows introduced in Windows 2000 to ...

Account administration in a distributed UNIX/Linux environment can become complicated and messy if done by hand. Large sites use special tools to deal with this problem. In this article, I describe ...

The Kerberos authentication protocol is the default authentication protocol of Windows Server 2003. This section examines how the protocol works by breaking down the complexity of the protocol into ...

As the main authentication protocol for Windows enterprise networks, Kerberos has long been a favored hacking playground for security researchers and cybercriminals alike. While the focus has been on ...

The Kerberos authentication platform is being extended to work more efficiently across multiple organizations and within handheld devices and mobile apps Developers and other supporters of the ...

The Kerberos authentication method originated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1980s, as part of a project called Athena. The project involved integrating the computers on the MIT ...