The DataPower Gateway must prohibit password reuse for a minimum of five generations.
Overview
Finding ID
Version
Rule ID
IA Controls
Severity
V-65093
WSDP-NM-000054
SV-79583r1_rule
Medium
Description
Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks.
To meet password policy requirements, passwords need to be changed at specific policy-based intervals.
If the network device allows the user to consecutively reuse their password when that password has exceeded its defined lifetime, the end result is a password that is not changed as per policy requirements.