Choose to set up Windows 10 or 11 with a local account, and you're required to select three security questions to answer if you ever get locked out. Those questions include the typical ones, such as ...

In today's rapidly evolving identity landscape, organizations are accelerating their adoption of cloud-first strategies (specifically by modernizing identity infrastructure through the adoption of ...

Amy Nichol Smith spent more than 20 years working as a journalist for TV and newspapers before transitioning to software and hardware product reviews for consumers and small businesses. She has been ...

Microsoft is expanding support for passkeys in Windows 11 to make it more secure to log into websites and apps using biometric authentication. Passkeys are unique codes linked to specific devices such ...

There are plenty of people, for plenty of reasons, who really don’t want to sign into their copy of Windows 11 using a Microsoft account, no matter how seamless an experience this brings to the ...

Windows has a built-in Credential Manager, but it's not what you think—and certainly not a replacement for your password manager. As the name suggests, Credential Manager is a built-in password ...