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Windows 11 Quietly Mandates Enterprise Kerberos Armoring
Episode 123 of The Windows Podcast dives into a security feature Microsoft is quietly requiring for enterprise Windows 11 deployments: Kerberos armoring, also known as Flexible Authentication via Secure Tunneling (FAST). Lucas and Luna break down what Kerberos armoring actually does—protecting authentication traffic against offline brute-force attacks by wrapping it in a secure tunnel—and why it's becoming mandatory in the latest Windows 11 enterprise compliance baselines. They discuss practical deployment gotchas, like ensuring all domain controllers run Windows Server 2012 or later and that…
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