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January 07, 2008
Can AuthAnvil help with password expiration policies?
This weekend I saw an interesting post by Susan Bradley on password complexity policies and the need for a better solution to deal with the pain of frequent password changes. I really started to smile when I saw her say:
And of course with something like www.AuthAnvil.com, you can make that even LONGER of a period to change passphrases.
What she is eluding to is the fact that with the use of strong authentication as a requirement for all your login entry points you no longer need to change it every month (or 42 days if you are using strong Windows password policies). You can easily get away with doing it quarterly, or even longer. Its an interesting byproduct of using strong authentication... you can extend the password expiry so your users don't have to always be changing it.
We changed our own policy from 42 days to quarterly. And its working really well.
YMMV of course. Great post Susan!
Posted by Dana Epp at January 7, 2008 12:48 PM
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