Maximum password age

Information

Maximum password age

This security setting determines the period of time (in days) that a password can be used before the system requires the user to change it. You can set passwords to expire after a number of days between 1 and 999, or you can specify that passwords never expire by setting the number of days to 0. If the maximum password age is between 1 and 999 days, the Minimum password age must be less than the maximum password age. If the maximum password age is set to 0, the minimum password age can be any value between 0 and 998 days.

Note: It is a security best practice to have passwords expire every 30 to 90 days, depending on your environment. This way, an attacker has a limited amount of time in which to crack a user's password and have access to your network resources.

Default: 42.

Solution

Policy Path: Account Policies\Password Policy
Policy Name: Maximum password age

See Also

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=55319

Item Details

Category: IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

References: 800-53|IA-5(1)(d), CSCv6|16.5

Plugin: Windows

Control ID: 054bebd52eb6f7119290555ae4a5eda166113d352ab804b0429aef982e0257f5