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August 29, 2018

The role of standards in accelerating innovation

By building upon widely implemented industry standards, innovators are free to focus on the innovative aspects of their work, letting existing standards do the heavy lifting.

August 27, 2018

Microsoft Authenticator companion app for Apple Watch now in public preview

Announcing the Microsoft Authenticator app for Apple Watch! Now you’ll be able to approve notifications on your Watch without having to get your phone.

August 21, 2018

It’s time for token binding

The last few months have been some very exciting times in the world of identity and security standards. Due to the efforts of a broad set of experts across the industry, we've made incredible progress in finalizing a broad set of new and improved standards that will improve both the security and user experiences of a generation of cloud services and devices.

June 27, 2018

Eight essentials for hybrid identity #3: Securing your identity infrastructure

While we fight the good fight to ward off threats in your cloud infrastructure, we'd also like to recommend steps that you can take that could immediately protect your hybrid infrastructure.

June 25, 2018

Vision + Execution: Microsoft named a leader again in Gartner MQ for Access Management

For the second year in a row, Gartner has positioned Microsoft in the Leaders Quadrant in the 2018 Magic Quadrant for Access Management.

June 12, 2018

Eight essentials for hybrid identity #2: Choosing the right authentication method

I'm here to share with you the next part in our "Eight essentials for hybrid identity" blog series, based on what we've learned from working with tens of thousands of organizations on this hybrid journey.

May 22, 2018

Eight essentials for hybrid identity #1: A new identity mindset

Many of the customers I get the privilege to talk with are well along on the path to connecting their on-premises systems and applications to cloud services. And for the majority of them, hybrid identity is the first stop of destination cloud.

May 8, 2018

Introducing Microsoft account age-related features for GDPR

Today, I’m pleased to announce the rollout of recently redesigned and improved parental consent capabilities to our Microsoft account users in the European Union.

April 26, 2018

Azure AD B2B collaboration for hybrid organizations

Since we launched Azure AD B2B capabilities a year ago, more than 800,000 organizations have used Azure AD B2B to collaborate with their partners, adding 8 million guest user accounts.

April 17, 2018

Password-less sign-in to Windows 10 and Azure AD using FIDO2 is coming soon (plus other cool news)!

I want to tell you about some exciting new features we've been working on that I think you'll be pretty excited about.

April 12, 2018

Big news in our drive to eliminate passwords: FIDO2 / WebAuthn reaches candidate recommendation status!

We've made great progress with Windows Hello and our mobile Authenticator app that's available on iOS and Android.

March 15, 2018

The Intune Managed Browser now supports Azure AD SSO and Conditional Access!

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.

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