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.

Pass-the-hash attacks continue to pose a serious risk. An attacker can gain access to a privileged domain account via a user’s local administrative hash and use it to access critical servers and data.

Events and breaches over the last few years have exposed, in a high-profile way, particular vulnerabilities of our modern IT environments. It’s obvious now that perimeter security alone is no longer ...