tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2019 Issue Q4

Reader Question: Find Truth About Password Changes

Question: Our IT consultant suggests that we update passwords every 30 days, but this is met with great staff resistance, and may actually adversely impact productivity. Is this necessary? SuperCoder Subscriber Answer: While frequent password changes have been the norm for years, the National Institute of Standards and Technology(NIST) updated their guidelines and recommendations concerning identity security. “Verifiers SHOULD NOT impose other composition rules (eg, requiring mixtures of different character types or prohibiting consecutively repeated characters) for memorized secrets. Verifiers SHOULD NOT require memorized secrets to be changed arbitrarily (eg, periodically). However, verifiers SHALL force a change if...

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