SOLUTION BRIEF
Simplify NIST Password Guidelines with SpyCloud Active Directory Guardian
To help organizations mitigate the risk posed by users’ bad password habits, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) designed a set of password guidelines with human behavior in mind. While most of NIST’s password guidelines can be enforced directly within directory services like Active Directory, there’s a critical exception: banning “commonly-used, expected, or compromised” passwords. Unfortunately, new breaches happen constantly, which creates a challenge for organizations.
SpyCloud simplifies NIST password guidelines by enabling you to check your employee passwords against the largest database of stolen credentials in the world. With SpyCloud Active Directory Guardian, you can identify and reset breached Active Directory passwords automatically, dramatically reducing the time, cost, and resources required to align with NIST guidelines.
Read this solution brief to understand the benefits of using SpyCloud to align with NIST password guidelines:
- Reduce your team’s workload with “set it and forget it” automation
- Stay ahead of criminals with early access to breach data
- Protect your organization from Account Takeover (ATO) attacks
- Identify employee password reuse across work and personal accounts
- Ban common or expected passwords that can put your organization at risk
Solution: Active Directory Guardian
Automatically detect and reset exposed Windows accounts.
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Simplify NIST Password Guidelines with SpyCloud Active Directory Guardian
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Understanding the Latest NIST Password Guidelines
Over the years, security professionals have learned surprising lessons about how password policies affect user behavior.
Simplify NIST Password Guidelines with SpyCloud Active Directory Guardian
Read this solution brief to understand the benefits of using SpyCloud to align with NIST password guidelines.
Best Practices for Implementing NIST Password Guidelines
Aligning your enterprise’s password policy with the latest guidelines from NIST can help encourage better password habits and reduce the risk of account takeover.
With SpyCloud, you get enterprise-level, automated account takeover and ransomware prevention powered by Cybercrime Analytics based on actionable darknet insights.
SpyCloud offers the largest collection of recaptured darknet data in the world, combined with the earliest possible recovery. Our proprietary engine quickly ingests data from breaches, malware-infected devices, and other underground sources, then cleanses and enriches the data – adding context to the records so you understand the severity of the exposures (the source, breach description, and the actual password in plaintext). Our customers get notifications of compromised accounts and passwords far sooner with SpyCloud than any other provider.
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