What Happens When you Type Your Password into Windows? Published Sep 9, 2020 | Posted in Windows Have you ever wondered what happens behind the scenes when you type your password into the Windows logon screen and hit enter? Read Article About Steve Syfuhs Steve Syfuhs is a developer on the Windows Authentication team at Microsoft. Read More about Steve Mastodon github.com/SteveSyfuhs
Hybrid Authentication with FIDO Published Jan 19, 2021 FIDO is how we're tackling passwordless authentication. Have you ever wondered how it works? Read Article | Windows
Kerberos FAST Armoring Published Jan 16, 2021 FAST Armoring is a Kerberos extension intended to improve the security of the Kerberos protocol. Read Article | Kerberos
Should I Turn off NLA? Published Dec 30, 2020 Network Level Authentication is critical for secure RDP connections. Don't turn it off. Read Article | RDP
A Strategy for Protecting Privileged Access Published Dec 22, 2020 Let's talk a bit about how Microsoft does Privileged Access. Read Article | Security
How Windows Defender Credential Guard Works Published Dec 1, 2020 Have you ever wondered how Credential Guard works? Read Article | Windows
Windows and Domain Trusts Published Nov 24, 2020 Domain trusts are complicated. Here's how they work. Read Article | Windows
How Windows Single Sign-On Works Published Nov 18, 2020 Have you ever wondered how Windows does Single Sign-on? Read Article | Windows
Windows Insider Podcast: Ctrl+Alt+Authenticate Published Nov 11, 2020 I was interviewed by Jason Howard from the Windows Insider team and we talked about Windows Authentication and stuff. Read Article | Authentication
How Azure AD Windows Sign-in Works Published Sep 22, 2020 Let's talk Azure AD join and what that means to a Windows device. What's it mean to be joined to something? Read Article | Kerberos
Kerberos Explained in a Little Too Much Detail Published Sep 15, 2020 Kerberos is an authenticated key agreement protocol based on the Needham-Schroeder protocol. That's too complicated -- let's break it down a little. Read Article | Kerberos
How Authentication Works when you use Remote Desktop Published Sep 9, 2020 Have you ever wondered how authentication works for things like Remote Desktop? Read Article | Windows