this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2024

600 points (98.9% liked)

Cybersecurity - Memes

1964 readers

2 users here now

Only the hottest memes in Cybersecurity

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

[email protected]

600

Your password has expired (feddit.org)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/cybersecuritymemes

86 comments fedilink hide all child comments

This practice is not recommended anymore, yet still found in many enterprises.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's often due to the security department following outdated standards. Nowadays NIST recommends the following:

Verifiers SHOULD NOT impose other composition rules (e.g., requiring mixtures of different character types or prohibiting consecutively repeated characters) for memorized secrets. Verifiers SHOULD NOT require memorized secrets to be changed arbitrarily (e.g., periodically). However, verifiers SHALL force a change if there is evidence of compromise of the authenticator.

Source: https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html

That said, the company I work for violates all of the above rules ...