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Ensure ‘Minimum Lowercase Letters’ is greater than or equal to 1

Details

This checks all new passwords to ensure that they contain at least one English lowercase character (a through z).

Rationale:

This is one of several settings that, when taken together, ensure that passwords are sufficiently complex as to thwart brute force and dictionary attacks.

Solution

Navigate to Device > Setup > Management > Minimum Password Complexity
Set Minimum Lowercase Letters to greater than or equal to 1
Default Value:
Not enabled.

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: Identification and Authentication.This control applies to the following type of system Palo_Alto.

References

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Updated on July 16, 2022
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