Microsoft and Google postpone insecure authentication removal

guest · Apr 7, 2020

Microsoft and Google postpone insecure authentication removal
April 7, 2020
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Microsoft says that Basic Authentication's removal from Exchange Online is being postponed until the second half of 2021 due to the current situation created by the COVID-19 pandemic.

"In response to the COVID-19 crisis and knowing that priorities have changed for many of our customers we have decided to postpone disabling Basic Authentication in Exchange Online for those tenants still actively using it until the second half of 2021," Microsoft's Exchange team announced.
However, starting October 2020, Microsoft will still automatically disable Basic Authentication for all newly created tenants and on those where it is not actively used. [...] Microsoft said.
Previously planned removal in October 2020
Microsoft previously announced that Basic Authentication will be turned off in Exchange Online for Exchange ActiveSync (EAS), POP, IMAP, and Remote PowerShell starting with October 13, 2020.
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Google also delayed disabling G Suite legacy auth
While Google also announced in December 2019 that it will block less secure apps (LSAs) from accessing G Suite accounts' data starting in February 2021, the company now says that the LSA turn-off is put on hold until further notice.

That decision followed the removal of the "Enforce access to less secure apps for all users" setting from the Google Admin console during October 2019.

"As many organizations deal with the impact of COVID-19 and are now focused on supporting a remote workforce, we want to minimize potential disruptions for customers unable to complete migrations in this timeframe," Google said on March 30.
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