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title: Hardening Password Authentication | Active Directory Walk-Through
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# Hardening Password Authentication

###### A quick walk-through for Enzoic for Active Directory

Extensive research showed that old-school password rules made them harder for users to remember but easier for hackers to guess.

As a result, standards like NIST 800-63B now require checking against commonly used, easy to guess, or compromised passwords. They also recommend eliminating periodic password expiration, requiring reset only when compromise is suspected.

See how Enzoic:

- improves the security of passwords - the authentication layer already in use
- prevents reusing compromised credentials and detects when existing credentials become vulnerable

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