Identity security is now a cornerstone of enterprise cyber defence, particularly in the UK where regulatory pressure and threat levels continue to rise. Security teams often hear three related but distinct terms: IAM (Identity and Access Management), PAM (Privileged Access Management), and IGA (Identity Governance and Administration). While they overlap, each addresses different layers of…
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Microsoft’s latest cloud authentication outage: What went wrong
Microsoft is saying a ‘rotation of keys’ that handle authentication was to blame for a roughly 14-hour Azure outage that took down Office 365, Dynamics 365, Xbox Live and other Microsoft services on March 15th. Microsoft has published a preliminary root cause analysis of its March 15 Azure Active Directory outage, which took down Office,…
