Wise Owl Password Policy

Only applies if using internal password storage. External directory systems Wise Owl uses the following password policy for accounts stored in Appliances themselves. If you are using an external directory system such as Windows Active Directory will have their own password requirements which , you may be subject to different to thispassword requirements.

• Minimum length of 8 characters minimum (configurable per-Appliance).
• One Require one upper, lower and number (configurable)character (may be disabled per-Appliance).
• Any character is allowed. Including spaces, punctuation, HTML, non-English letters / numbers, characters not on standard keyboards, and any Unicode character point.
• Maximum length is 256 characters. This is to allow for longer passphrases but not overload system resources.
• All passwords are checked against a blacklist stored on Wise Owl Legal servers. This blacklist contains several million poor passwords and passwords leaked from public websites.
• Leading and trailing spaces are removed as some external programs may strip them.
• No expiry dates are enforced.