Password-less sign-in to Windows 10 and Azure AD using FIDO2 is coming soon (plus other cool news)!
Howdy folks, Today I want to tell you about some exciting new features we’ve been working on that I think you’ll be pretty excited about. Specifically, today we are announcing that: A limited-preview of Password-less sign-in using a FIDO2 security key will available in the next update to Windows 10 (coming this spring).Big news in our drive to eliminate passwords: FIDO2 / WebAuthn reaches candidate recommendation status!
Howdy folks, At Microsoft we’ve been working hard to eliminate passwords since the very earliest stages of Windows 10. We’ve made great progress with Windows Hello and our mobile Authenticator app that’s available on iOS and Android. But to date we have not had an interoperable solution that works across all industry platforms and browsers.The Intune Managed Browser now supports Azure AD SSO and Conditional Access!
Howdy folks, If you follow the blog, you know that Azure AD Conditional Access (CA) lets you easily secure access to Office 365 and all the other apps you use with Azure AD. It is our fastest growing feature ever and more than 23M users are now protected by conditional access policies!Azure AD and ADFS best practices: Defending against password spray attacks
Howdy folks, As long as we’ve had passwords, people have tried to guess them. In this blog, we’re going to talk about a common attack which has become MUCH more frequent recently and some best practices for defending against it. This attack is commonly called password spray.Decentralized digital identities and blockchain: The future as we see it
Howdy folks, I hope you’ll find today’s post as interesting as I do. It’s a bit of brain candy and outlines an exciting vision for the future of digital identities.Public preview: “What If” tool for Azure AD conditional access policies
Hi folks, Azure AD Conditional Access (CA) has really taken off. Organizations around the world are using it to ensure secure, compliant access to applications. Every month, Conditional Access is now used to protect over 10K organizations and over 10M active users! It’s amazing to see how quickly our customers have put it to work!![Five people participate in a meeting.](https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/blog/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2017/11/M365-Compliance-Manager-card-1-300x183.jpg)
Microsoft 365 helps businesses increase trust and innovation through compliance with Compliance Manager Preview
Today’s post was written by Ron Markezich, corporate vice president for Microsoft. The evolution of technology and cloud innovation are democratizing data and in turn fueling digital transformation.How organizations are connecting their on-premises identities to Azure AD
Howdy folks, If you follow the blog, you know that we support a wide array of options for connecting an on-premises directory or IAM solution to Azure AD. In fact no one in the industry gives customers as many options as we do.![](https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/blog/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2017/09/configmgr-25-300x169.jpg)
ConfigMgr at 25
Late last week, I wrote about the remarkable quarter-century milestone reached by ConfigMgr, and today I wanted to dive even deeper into the backstory of this incredible product, share a couple announcements, and debut an awesome new documentary (lookout Sundance!![A woman sits in an airport working on her laptop.](https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/blog/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2017/09/New-Office-365-app-launcher-FI-1-300x183.png)