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Configure password security

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Control access to your system by specifying security settings for user passwords.

  1. From the Trellix ESM dashboard, click menu.png and select System Properties.

  2. Click Login Security.

  3. On the Passwords tab, set the options:

    • Identify password requirements:

      • Eight characters long

      • One number

      • One punctuation mark or symbol

      • One uppercase letter

      • Can’t include four or more consecutive repeating characters

      If you select Require advanced password, the password requirements are:

      • At least 16 characters long

      • At least two numbers

      • At least two punctuation marks or symbols

      • At least two uppercase letters

      • At least two lowercase letters

      • Can't include four or more consecutive repeating characters

      • Must differ from the previous password by at least four characters.

    • Specify how often users must change their passwords (0–365 days). If you enter zero (0), the password doesn't expire.

    • Select how many days before passwords expire to remind users to change passwords (30-1).

    • Select how long after a user's password expires a user can still log on before the system locks the account. Then, only an administrator can unlock the account.

    • Select how many times a user can log on in the specified grace period before the system locks the account. Then, only an administrator can unlock the account.

    • Designate whether to store password history and how many user passwords to store (between 0–100 passwords). The system verifies existing password history when users change passwords.

      • If set to zero (0), the system does not store password history.

      • If the password is not unique, an error appears and the system does not update the password.

      • If the password is unique, the system changes it and adds a history entry.

      • If the storage limit is reached, the system deletes the oldest password.

    • Restrict how often users can change their passwords in a given period. For example, if you select 12, users can't change their passwords more than once in 12 hours.

  4. Click Apply and then OK.