Microsoft recently announced its plans to disable the legacy New Technology LAN Manager (NTLM) protocol by default in upcoming Windows releases. The software giant disclosed that the move is designed ...

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 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 has already begun the removal of NTLM early as the feature is no longer available on Windows 11 24H2 and Server 2025. Back in October of 2023, Microsoft expressed its desire to disable NTLM ...

Authentication sits at the heart of enterprise security, making passwords and the authentication mechanisms that use them, prime targets for cybercriminals. For more than 90% of organizations that use ...

There can be multiple reasons why you may want to disable NTML Authentication in Windows Domain. Some of the most common reasons are: NTML is not secure and offers weak encryption. In the case of NTML ...