FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

COMPUTER THREATS SECURITY

WHAT IS A FIREWALL IN NETWORK SECURITY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Your organization has setup a security policy that requires all passwords to be unique and should not be reused once changed. What type of policy would you define this requirement as?
A
Password History
B
Password Age
C
Password Complexity
D
Password Length
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Enforce password history policy setting determines the number of unique new passwords that must be associated with a user account before an old password can be reused. Password reuse is an important concern in any organization. Many users want to reuse the same password for their account over a long period of time.

Detailed explanation-2: -Best practices for password policy Configure a minimum password length. Enforce password history policy with at least 10 previous passwords remembered. Set a minimum password age of 3 days.

Detailed explanation-3: -Minimum Password Length policy You would generally want to set the Minimum Password Length to at least eight characters since long passwords are harder to crack than short ones. For even greater security, you could set the minimum password length to 14 characters.

Detailed explanation-4: -To apply a fine-grained password policy to users of an OU, you can use a shadow group. A shadow group is a global security group that is logically mapped to an OU to enforce a fine-grained password policy.

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