Dear users,
After careful consideration, management has decided to adopt expiring passphrases as recommended by our security audit firm (or the federal government or whatever...). Toward that end, all users' network logon passphrases will expire in 30 days regardless of their age at that time. In addition, users should refrain from sharing their passphrases with anyone, including IT staff from this point forward. In an emergency, IT can still reset your passphrase without knowing your current passphrase. Passphrases will expire every 90 days hence and must be changed to a new passphrase when prompted by the system. Recycling of passphrases will not be allowed by the system. You will receive a warning 2 weeks prior to your passphrase expiration and will be able to change your passphrase at any time during that period. A little pre-planning can help you to avoid help desk calls during and after your passphrase change: Your passphrase must be at least 7 characters long Your passphrase must contain both an upper and lower case letter Your passphrase must also contain either a number or a special character Examples: PASSWORD7 is not allowed (no lowercase letter) password7 is not allowed (no uppercase letter) passwordSEVEN is not allowed (no number or special character) Select a phrase that you can remember Writing your password down in your workspace completely defeats the purpose of this change Thank you for your understanding and cooperation, The Nerds aka The Password Meanies. Bill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
