Microsoft said last year that it wants to improve authentication security by eventually killing off NTLM sometime in the future. Today, the company has announced the deprecation of the feature. Back ...

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.

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.

Microsoft added a new security feature to Windows 11 that lets admins block NTLM over SMB to prevent pass-the-hash, NTLM relay, or password-cracking attacks. This will modify the legacy approach where ...