Microsoft announced earlier this week that the NTLM authentication protocol will be killed off in Windows 11 in the future. NTLM (short for New Technology LAN Manager) is a family of protocols used to ...

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 ...

The path to eradicating this ancient protocol and security sinkhole won’t be easy, but the time has come for its complete eradication. Microsoft has hinted at a possible end to NTLM a few times, but ...

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.

Multiple attackers are actively exploiting a recently patched Windows vulnerability that exposes authentication credentials, despite Microsoft releasing a fix for it in March. CVE-2025-24054 is an ...

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.

To ward off the attack known as PetitPotam, Microsoft advises you to disable NTLM authentication on your Windows domain controller. Microsoft is sounding an alert about a threat against Windows domain ...

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 ...