Cisco Cisco Web Security Appliance S380 Guía Del Usuario

Submit and commit your changes.

You can configure the Web Security appliance to have stricter access requirements for administrators 
logging into the appliance.

List of words to 
disallow in passwords

Create a .txt file with each forbidden word on a separate line, then select the 
file to upload it. Subsequent uploads overwrite previous uploads. 

Password Strength

You can display a password-strength indicator when an administrative user 
enters a new password.

This setting does not enforce creation of strong passwords, it merely shows 
how easy it is to guess the entered password. 

Select the roles for which you wish to display the indicator. Then, for each 
selected role, enter a number greater than zero. A larger number means that 
a password that registers as strong is more difficult to achieve. This setting 
has no maximum value, but a very high number makes it effectively 
impossible to enter a password that evaluates as "good." 

Experiment to see what number best meets your requirements. 

Password strength is measured on a logarithmic scale. Evaluation is based 
on the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology rules of entropy 
as defined in NIST SP 800-63, Appendix A.

Generally, stronger passwords:

Are longer

Include upper case, lower case, numeric, and special characters

Do not include words in any dictionary in any language.

To enforce passwords with these characteristics, use the other settings on 
this page.