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Assessment Title
Rule Text
SLEM 5 must enforce passwords that contain at least one special character.
Description
Discussion Text
Use of a complex password helps increase the time and resources required to compromise the password. Password complexity or strength is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks.
Password complexity is one factor in determining how long it takes to crack a password. The more complex the password, the greater the number of possible combinations that need to be tested before the password is compromised.
Special characters are not alphanumeric. Examples include: ~ ! @ # $ % ^ *.
Password complexity is one factor in determining how long it takes to crack a password. The more complex the password, the greater the number of possible combinations that need to be tested before the password is compromised.
Special characters are not alphanumeric. Examples include: ~ ! @ # $ % ^ *.
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