Microsoft says SMS and phone call authentication isn't up to the task anymore – and urges businesses to adopt passkeys.

Microsoft has announced that passkeys will become the default authentication method for the Entra ID enterprise identity ...

Beginning in September, Microsoft Entra ID will replace SMS and voice authentication with passkeys, signaling that ...

Microsoft will make passkeys the default authentication method in Entra ID and phase out its native delivery of SMS and voice authentication, a major shift aimed at reducing organizations' dependence ...

Microsoft Entra will retire its SMS and voice MFA services on February 1, 2027, as it moves public cloud customers toward ...

Starting September 1, 2026, passkeys will become the default authentication experience in Microsoft Entra. Read more about ...

Microsoft's public cloud computing platform, Azure, was recently targeted by a cyberattack that led to a multi-hour outage. While a newly announced mandatory two-factor authentication login ...

Microsoft and major cloud providers are starting to take steps to move their business customers toward more secure forms of authentication and the elimination of basic security weaknesses — such as ...

Almost every compromised Microsoft account lacks multi-factor authentication, but few organizations enable it even though it's available, according to Microsoft. In the tech giant's new Cyber Signals ...

New Jalisco and OmegaLord phishing kits target Microsoft 365 accounts by abusing device code flows, OAuth tokens, and MFA ...