Hardening Your Password Policy For End Users

PROBLEM
I need to harden the default global password policy for end users

ENVIRONMENT

• atmail cloud

CAUSE
Want to further harden the global policy for my users. The current global policy for end users is:

• Minimum of 1 upper-case character
• Minimum of 1 lower-case character
• Minimum of 1 numeric character
• Minimum of 1 non-alphanumeric character (For example: !@#$)
• Minimum length of 8 characters
• Maximum of 4 identical characters.
  • Acceptable: AAAAairB@11!
  • Not Acceptable: AAAAirAB@11!
• Can not be the same as 3 previous passwords used.

RESOLUTION

1. Login to your atmail cloud webadmin.
   
   
   
   
   
2. Select the Security tab.
   
   
   
   
3. Make sure your have the Policy for set to Email accounts.
   
   
   
   
4. You can now configure your desired password policy. Please note that you will not be able to values less then the defaults.
   
   
   
   
5. Make sure you click after making your changes.