Security News > 2020 > February > Password killer FIDO2 comes bounding into Azure Active Directory hybrid environments

Hybrid environments can now join the preview party for FIDO2 support in Azure Active Directory.

One way to move on is via a FIDO2 security key; the FIDO alliance has already signed up the likes of Google and Mozilla for browser authentication and back in October 2019 Microsoft unveiled a preview of FIDO2 security support in Azure Active Directory.

The problem was that while going password-free with a FIDO2 key, Microsoft's Authenticator app or Windows Hello was all well and good, but it didn't work with a hybrid-joined device, as the company acknowledged at the time.

As of this week, Microsoft is flinging open the doors to hybrid Azure AD-joined Windows 10 devices.

Interestingly, 18945 was also the Windows Server vNext Preview Build that first extended FIDO2 security keys to hybrid environments for braver admins.

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