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Better Password Security in AD with Specops Password Policy

 

Enforce a stronger Active Directory password policy  that meets compliance requirements from NIST, HIPAA and more with Specops Password Policy. Plus, continuously block over 4 billion unique compromised passwords, and help users create stronger passwords in Active Directory with dynamic, informative client feedback. Specops Password Policy extends the functionality of Group Policy, and simplifies the management of fine-grained password policies. 

The solution can target any GPO level, group, user, or computer with dictionary and passphrase settings. 

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“After decades of end user training, passwords are still a problem for IT teams and a weak point in many organization’s cybersecurity strategies. A huge amount of cybercrime still focuses on passwords: stealing credentials, selling them on, and using them as an initial access point for breaching organizations. Verizon estimates stolen credentials are involved in nearly half (44.7%) of all data breaches, and we know there’s a thriving underground marketplace for stolen data and credentials.”

– Darren James, Sr. Product Manager

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Features

  • Custom dictionary lists to block words common to your organization
  • Prevent the use of more than 4 billion compromised passwords with Breached Password Protection which includes passwords found on known breached lists as well as passwords being used in attacks happening right now
  • Find and remove compromised passwords in your environment
  • Informative end-user client messaging at failed password change that reduces calls to the helpdesk
  • Real-time, dynamic feedback at password change with the Specops Authentication client
  • Length-based password expiration with customizable email notifications
  • Block user names, display names, specific words, consecutive characters, incremental passwords, and reusing a part of the current password
  • Granular, GPO-driven targeting for any GPO level, computer, user, or group population
  • Passphrase support
  • Use Regular Expressions to further customize requirements
  • Over 25 languages supported including English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, and Chinese

Create Compliant Password Policies

Simplify passwords for users and place the burden on authentication systems. It has never been easier to comply with regulatory password recommendations from NIST, CJIS, NCSC, ANSSI, CNIL, BSI, HITRUST, PCI and more. With compliance driven templates, and a reporting tool to ensure they match or exceed regulatory standards, Specops Password Policy makes compliance a breeze.

Do you know how your existing password policies compare to best practices? For each password policy, you can drill down and see how the settings compare to various industry standards. Measuring your policies against industry recommendations can help safeguard your organization against common password-related attacks, including brute-force, rainbow table, and dictionary attacks.

Block Weak Passwords

Need a comprehensive list of vulnerable passwords to prevent dictionary attacks? Our password policy tool gives you many options. You can use a password dictionary, a file containing commonly used and/or compromised passwords, to prevent users from creating passwords susceptible to dictionary attacks. During a password change in Active Directory, the password check rejects any passwords found in the dictionary. Create a custom dictionary containing potential passwords relevant to your organization, including company name, location, services, and relevant acronyms. 

With the Breached Password Protection add-on, you can even block the use of more than 4 billion compromised passwords including those found on known breached lists as well as passwords being used in attacks happening right now. 

Target Password Entropy

Specops Password Policy enforces password length and complexity while blocking common character types at the beginning/end of passwords, as well as consecutively repeated characters. To help users create stronger passwords they can actually remember, the solution also supports passphrases.

Password attacks work because users are predictable. When asked to create a complex password, users follow familiar patterns. This means starting with a common word, followed by a number and/or special character. The length of the password is an effective defense. Passphrases, a combination of words that are meaningless together, are easier to remember and harder to crack.

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Easy and Intuitive to Use

If you are looking to strengthen passwords in Active Directory, you should definitely consider using Specops Password Policy. It’s easy and intuitive to use, and works as advertised.

Vlatko Kosturjak
Source: Help Net Security

Customer Reviews

Allows our users to be autonomous

Specops is a very complete solution that has largely fulfilled its objectives within our company. Thanks to this solution our users are totally autonomous to change their passwords”

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The Strongest Password Tool Ever!!!

“It has a lot of good features that you configure to make policy strongest. And it’s very good buy this tool with express list API very useful to assign your policy with external data breach list.”

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Easy, fast to deploy, immediate return of investment

“Deployed to 400 users in one hour with help of support. Support was really helpful, and whole process from testing to buying was fast & convincing.”

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