When we say 'login' here, do we only think about the username/password
based login? How about OTP and other local authentication mechanisms?

Thanks & regards,
-Prabath

On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Prabath Siriwardana <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I guess we discussed some of the options in a different thread too...
>
> Here are few things we should do to mitigate brute force attacks...
>
> 1. Lock the account after n number of failed login attempts - only the
> identity admin (or helpdesk admin) can unlock the account.
> 2. Lock the account after n number of failed login attempts - and
> automatically unlock the account after t minutes.
> 3. Lock the account after n number of failed login attempts - and unlock
> the account only when the account own clicks on a link sent to his
> registered email address.
> 4. Do not lock the account - after n number of failed login attempts
> display a captcha
> 5. Do not lock the account - incrementally increase the response time of
> the failed login responses
>
> In all these scenarios - we need to track all the data associated with the
> login request - and build an IP blacklist.
>
> Can we represent all the above scenarios as policies? Ideally, we should
> be able to engage these policies to users by the tenant, role or group,
> user store or globally...
>
> Thanks & regards,
> -Prabath
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 12:23 PM, Harsha Thirimanna <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Currently We are working on $subject.
>>
>> When user tries to login using invalid credential until reach the maximum
>> attempts count, we lock the account for some specific time. After the time,
>> we allow to user to try again and  it will be locked again after user tries
>> to login using invalid credential for the maximum attempts. Now we are
>> going to increase the lock time than the previous time. This ratio would be
>> a configurable value.
>>
>> As an another improvement when a registered user tries to login to the
>> system without email confirmation, inform him verification is pending and
>> give the ability to resend the confirmation code to the registered email
>> address.
>>
>> Your comments and suggestions are highly appreciated.
>>
>> thanks
>>
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>
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