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How Does Your AD Password Policy Compare to NIST’s Password Recommendations?

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has a cybersecurity framework that helps organizations address common cybersecurity pitfalls in their environment, including weak, reused, and breached passwords. This post will take a closer look at the NIST password guidelines and see how you can effectively audit your password policies to ensure these meet the standards recommended by NIST. The Specops Password Auditor tool enables you to have quick visibility to risky passwords in your organization’s Active Directory environment. It offsets a tremendous burden from IT or security administrator when performing audits to align security policies with cybersecurity frameworks.

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2021/01/creating-strong-password-policy-with.html

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