Password Policy Management

Leetspeak passwords – predictable and crackable

Leetspeak enables users to create passwords that are easy to remember, and easy crack. By preventing users from utilizing character substitution during password creation, Specops Password Policy can guide users towards stronger passwords. Read More

Regular Expressions for Passphrases

As a follow up to our Regular Expressions for password complexity blog post, we’ll look at some of the more interesting things you can do with regular expressions. These are typically (but not necessarily) used in organizations using passphrase... Read More

Regular Expressions for password complexity

Specops Password Policy contains a number of granular complexity, history, and dictionary requirements for passwords and utilizes basic C.  However, we cannot always anticipate every customer’s unique password requirements.  In order to give our customers the flexibility to set... Read More

Building a password dictionary: Overview and best practices

As long as users continue using common/predictable passwords, dictionary attacks will continue to work. Hackers are not the only ones who can take advantage of password predictability. The best protection against a dictionary attack is using a dictionary during... Read More

How to create a fine-grained password policy in AD

For the first eight years of Active Directory, the only native way of having multiple password policies in your AD forest, was to have multiple domains. When Windows Server 2008 arrived on the scene, Microsoft introduced the concept of... Read More