In mid-January media reported a record security breach that exposed 773 million email accounts and 23 million passwords on the network, with the name “Collection # 1”. Now, unfortunately, these figures have fallen short to discover a few days ago, a new leak of up to 2,200 million stolen user names and passwords , under the name of “Collection # 2 to # 5”.
In companies, many of its users (for their convenience to remember them), often reuse the same password they use for personal issues in applications and corporate portals. Given this situation, the security threat for organizations is enormous since there is a risk that a cybercriminal will obtain a password from any employee who performs this type of practice and tries to use it to access your company’s data.
How can you protect the identity of your users?
The solution to the headache of IT departments facing these security threats is in the cloud and is called Azure Active Directory (AAD).
AAD facilitates, through a single identity (single sign-on) and protected (through 2 steps validation and artificial intelligence), a secure access confirming that users trying to connect to corporate applications are who they say they are.