Microsoft, along with Google, Apple, and Yahoo, plays an important role in the lives of online users, being one of the four major identity providers that basically cover the entire online userspace.
Through its Microsoft Account and Microsoft Azure Active Directory services, the company is helping regular and corporate users alike by providing them with a central identity.
The Microsoft identity empire
Microsoft Account, formerly known as Windows Live ID, is a username and password-based identity, which regular Internet users employ to sign into services such as Bing, Outlook.com, OneDrive, Windows Phone, Skype, Xbox LIVE, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and many others.
Depending on each user's personal setup, a Microsoft Account identity, if compromised, can allow attackers access to a wide range of personal data, ranging from devices to photos, and from contact lists to sensitive documents.
Microsoft's second service for managing user identities is called Azure Active Directory (AAD) and is a commercial service offered to corporate entities. This service is a single sign-on system that grants users access to thousands of cloud (SaaS) apps such as Office 365, Workday, Box, Google Apps and more.
Microsoft is boasting that 90 percent of the world's 2,000 largest organizations use Azure Active Directory to manage user access to their cloud services. The company says it has 8.24 million AAD tenants, which in turn manage identities for 550 million users.
Microsoft says that 10M of the daily 13B login attempts are attacks
According to a Microsoft security report, the company is seeing over 13 billion authentications per day for these two services (1.3 billion for AAD), of which, the company says over 10 million (per day) are cyber-attacks.
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Full Article: Microsoft Sees Over 10 Million Cyberattacks per Day on Its Online Infrastructure
Through its Microsoft Account and Microsoft Azure Active Directory services, the company is helping regular and corporate users alike by providing them with a central identity.
The Microsoft identity empire
Microsoft Account, formerly known as Windows Live ID, is a username and password-based identity, which regular Internet users employ to sign into services such as Bing, Outlook.com, OneDrive, Windows Phone, Skype, Xbox LIVE, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and many others.
Depending on each user's personal setup, a Microsoft Account identity, if compromised, can allow attackers access to a wide range of personal data, ranging from devices to photos, and from contact lists to sensitive documents.
Microsoft's second service for managing user identities is called Azure Active Directory (AAD) and is a commercial service offered to corporate entities. This service is a single sign-on system that grants users access to thousands of cloud (SaaS) apps such as Office 365, Workday, Box, Google Apps and more.
Microsoft is boasting that 90 percent of the world's 2,000 largest organizations use Azure Active Directory to manage user access to their cloud services. The company says it has 8.24 million AAD tenants, which in turn manage identities for 550 million users.
Microsoft says that 10M of the daily 13B login attempts are attacks
According to a Microsoft security report, the company is seeing over 13 billion authentications per day for these two services (1.3 billion for AAD), of which, the company says over 10 million (per day) are cyber-attacks.
[...]
Full Article: Microsoft Sees Over 10 Million Cyberattacks per Day on Its Online Infrastructure
