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Windows admins are seeing authentication failures on the server and client side after installing the latest Patch Tuesday updates.

Microsoft is currently looking at crashing issues caused by recent patches. Get to know these updates that might be better off left alone.

Following the release of this months Patch Tuesday updates, Microsoft has issued a warning that installing the KB5013943 update can lead to authentication issues for various Windows services.

Microsoft is working on a fix for authentication failures following Patch Tuesday update

All latest updates seemingly causing problems

Microsoft has issued a workaround for the certificate-mapping issue, but many have already rolled back the updates to avoid operational disruption

How to deploy 802.1x for Wi-Fi using WPA3-Enterprise Wi-Fi Protected Access 3 can provide authentication with enhanced security. Wi-Fi Protected Access 3 (WPA3) has brought significant security improvements to Wi-Fi networks, particularly WPA-3Enterprise, which includes tweaks to make authenticating to the network more secure. One of these is has to do with 802.1x authentication that is used to determine whether Wi-Fi clients will be granted access to the enterprise network. The enterprise mode...

The enterprise mode of WPA has always allowed you to give each user a unique username/password to login to the Wi-Fi or to utilize unique digital certificates for each user to install on devices for even more security. Now with WPA3-Enterprise, the security is increased as clients are now required to make sure it’s communicating with the real authentication server before sending login credentials. That verification was optional with the earlier two versions of WPA. There are also improvements...