nFront Password Filter
Are you enforcing a good password policy?
Passwords. Everyone on your corporate network has one. How weak is the weakest password?
Having a good password policy that is enforced across all users is fundamental to good security practices. You are probably spending money on firewalls, anti-virus, encryption and data leakage products. However, if you are using the built-in Windows Password Policy you might as well burn the money you are spending for all the security software and devices.
What is nFront Password Filter?
nFront Password Filter is a password policy enforcement tool for Windows Active Directory that allows up to 6 different password policies in the same Windows domain. Each password policy has many granular settings and can be associated with one or more global or universal security groups. nFront Password Filter allows you to strengthen network security by preventing the use of weak, easily hacked passwords.
Why use nFront Password Filter?
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Protects from external hacking. IPSec is great. VPNs are great. 128-bit encryption is great. However, the correct username and password allows a hacker to use the 128-bit IPSec VPN tunnel and access your corporate data. All of your firewall devices and IDS devices have no way of distinguishing the compromised account from the actual legitimate user.
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Protects from internal hacking. How about the new engineer who would like to access to company financial data? How about the college student who would like to modify the student records database? How about all of the free password sniffing and cracking tools on the Internet?
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Users do not understand the need for strong passwords and will not follow formal password policies unless the policies are enforced.
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