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Use Authentication Policies to Fight Password Spray Attacks

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Oct 03, 2022
We have recently seen several indicators that show that many of our customers are being targeted by password spray attacks that leverage basic authentication. The only reason we’re turning off basi...
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Oct 27, 2022

J_Tsai - not easy - but you could get clever with Auth Policy assignments, editing/moving them as you try to migrate users. 

 

I'd also suggest reviewing your account lockout policies, there's a lot of differing opinions on that these days.