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Do You know how to fix CredSSP Authentication Error in RDP ?

Microsoft has already released some security patches in year of March 2018 to repair the precise vulnerabilities for the CredSSP (Credential Security Support Provider Protocol) employed by the Remote Desktop Protocol in Windows Server. But a recent update has made CredSSP Authentication error in RDP and caused hindrance to several users. Microsoft pushed the update of May 2018 to harden the protection by making it mandatory for both client and server computers to possess the update installed. This resulted in windows servers not accessible via RDP for several users and made many to reboot their servers to repair the matter thinking it as a server side issue. This blog will facilitate your on the way to repair the CredSSP Authentication related error in Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) What is CredSSP? “CredSSP” or “Credential Security Support Provider Protocol” could be a security support provider which helps to securely delegate user credentials from a client computer to a windows server...

What is Azure Active Directory? Provide difference of Azure AD and Windows AD

Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is Microsoft’s enterprise cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) solution. Azure AD is the backbone of the Office 365 system, and it can sync with on-premise Active Directory and provide authentication to other cloud-based systems via OAuth. What is Windows Active Directory? Windows Active Directory (AD) is Microsoft’s predecessor to Azure AD. Microsoft released Active Directory in Windows 2000 server, and it became a standard for enterprise identity management. Active Directory lives on-premise in servers called Domain Controllers (DC). Each DC contains a catalog of users and computers that are authorized to access resources on the network. Users authenticate to DCs via Kerberos or NTLM authentication. AD security is one of our favorite topics because many attacks the Varonis Incident Response team researches involve AD at some point in the cyber kill chain. It could be a simple brute force attack to crack an old NTLM passw...