Security News > 2020 > January > NIST 800-171 & Why Organizations Need Password Similarity Blocking in Active Directory
2020-01-07 21:33
Other organizations are also adopting NIST password guidelines and security protocols because they reduce the risk for most organizations.
It easy for administrators to enforce a minimum password complexity with the standard Active Directory functionality but enforcing a character changes is more complex.
A common employee password behavior is using one root password and then use various iterations of it.
With password similarity blocking functionality, new passwords are screened by similarity to a former password using the Damerau- Levenshtein distance.
With Enzoic for Active Directory, the systems admin can determine the amount of difference that will be required between the old password and the new password.