MICROSOFT DEPRECATES WINDOWS NTLM AUTHENTICATION PROTOCOL

Summary from the TLDR InfoSec newsletter

Microsoft announced that it has officially deprecated the outdated NTLM authentication protocol in favor of more secure alternatives. NTLM will still work in the next release of Windows server and the next annual release of Windows. Administrators are encouraged to audit their use of NTLM and users are encouraged to transition to Negotiate which attempts authentication with Kerberos before falling back to NTLM.