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Monday, April 27, 2009

NIST Releases Draft Guide to Enterprise Password Management

NIST announced this week that Draft Special Publication (SP) 800-118, Guide to Enterprise Password Management, has been released for public comment. SP 800-118 is intended to help organizations understand and mitigate common threats against their character-based passwords. The guide focuses on topics such as defining password policy requirements and selecting centralized and local password management solutions.

NIST is soliciting comments on the draft publication until May 29, 2009. Submit comments to 800-118comments@nist.gov with "Comments SP 800-118" in the subject line.

The document URL is:
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/PubsDrafts.html#800-118

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