Microsoft is killing off this authentication protocol in Windows – here’s why

Microsoft is stripping Windows 11 users of an old protocol that authenticates remote users. The New Technology LAN Manager (NTLM) was effectively usurped by Kerberos, the MIT-developed cross-platform tool which works as the authentication protocol for any version of Windows since Windows 2000.  In fact, Microsoft even recommended users refrain from using NTLM way back … Read more