Sense Defence Password Policy

Sense Defence Password Policy

The following password policy applies to users logging in to the Sense Defence Console.

Policy Note: This policy does not affect organisations that log in to the Sense Defence Dashboard via their organisation's SSO.




Password Strength
  1. No more than 2 identical characters in a row
  2. Special characters (!@#$%^&*)
  3. Lower case (a-z), upper case (A-Z) and numbers (0-9)
  4. Must have 8 characters in length
  5. Non-empty password required
Reusing previous passwords
The system will maintain a password history for each user and prevent the reuse of passwords included in the history for 5 times.
Password Dictionary
We do not allow passwords that are part of the password dictionary. The default dictionary is a list of the 10,000 most common passwords.
Personal DataP
Passwords cannot contain any part of the user's personal data. This includes the user's name, username, nickname, user_metadata.name, user_metadata.first, user_metadata.last. The user's email or the first part of it, firstpart@email.com will also be checked.


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