Best Practice Detail

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Network Operators, Service Providers, Equipment Suppliers and Public Safety should create an enforceable policy that considers different types of users and requires the use of passwords or stronger authentication methods. Where passwords can be used to enhance needed access controls, ensure they are sufficiently long and complex to defy brute force guessing and deter password cracking. To assure compliance, perform regular audits of passwords on at least a sampling of the systems.

Status: Rollover New

References/Comments: Garfinkel, Simson, and Gene Spafford. “Users and Passwords”. Practical Unix & Internet Security, 2nd ed. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly and Associates, Inc. 1996. 49-69 US Government and National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) ISP Network Operations Working Group. ?Short Term Recommendations?. Report of the ISP Working Group for Network Operations/Administration. May 1, 2002. \\\\\'http://www.atis.org/ - ATIS-0300276.2008 Operations, Administration, Maintenance, and Provisioning Security Requirements for the Public Telecommunications Network: A Baseline of Security Requirements for the Management Plane: March 2008. Note: This Best practice could impact 9-1-1 operations.

Historical events:

• Network Operators
• Service Providers
• Equipment Suppliers
• Public Safety
• Cable
• Internet/Data
• Satellite
• Wireless
• Wireline
• Cyber Security
• Information Protection
• Public Safety Service
• Encryption
• CSRIC VII: Rollover New In CSRIC VII