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NTLM vs Kerberos: Why It’s Time to Upgrade Your Authentication Strategy

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NTLM vs Kerberos: Why It’s Time to Upgrade Your Authentication Strategy Authentication is the backbone of enterprise security. Yet, many organizations still rely on NTLM (NT LAN Manager), a protocol introduced decades ago with Windows NT. While Microsoft replaced NTLM with Kerberos as the default authentication protocol in Windows 2000, NTLM—primarily NTLMv2—remains widely used. This […]

NTLM and Kerberos analysis

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NTLM (NT LAN Manager) has been used as the basic Microsoft authentication protocol for quite a long time: since Windows NT. Although Microsoft introduced a more secure Kerberos authentication protocol in Windows 2000, the NTLM (generally, it is NTLMv2) is still widely used for authentication on Windows domain networks. In this article, we will consider […]