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1.18 CISC-ND-000550

Information

The Cisco router must be configured to enforce a minimum 15-character password length.

GROUP ID: V-215681
RULE ID: SV-215681r879601

Password complexity or strength is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks. Password length is one of several that helps to determine strength and how long it takes to crack a password.

The shorter the password, the lower the number of possible combinations that need to be tested before the password is compromised. Use of more characters in a password helps to exponentially increase the time and/or resources required to compromise the password.

Solution

Configure the Cisco router to enforce a minimum 15-character password length as shown in the example below.

R1(config)#aaa common-criteria policy PASSWORD_POLICY
R1(config-cc-policy)#min-length 15
R1(config-cc-policy)#exit

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/26598

Item Details

Category: IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

References: 800-53|IA-5(1), CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000205, Rule-ID|SV-215681r879601_rule, STIG-ID|CISC-ND-000550, Vuln-ID|V-215681

Plugin: Cisco

Control ID: 8115f6ef3debc4da4e5c7fb47ec13c8c03603f15af741fefb92324659b2c36a5