Password Requirements
The user should ensure that the selected password for their R&D Tracking account is consistent with these nine security features listed below:
- Password contains at least eight non-blank characters, provided such passwords are allowed by the operating system or application.
- Password contains a combination of letters (preferably a mixture of upper and
lowercase), numbers, and at least one special character within the first seven positions, provided such passwords are allowed by the operating system or
application.
- Password contains a nonnumeric in the first and last position.
- Password does not contain the user ID.
- Password does not include the user's own or, to the best of his/her knowledge,
close friends' or relatives' names, employee serial number, Social Security
number, birth date, phone number, or any information about him/her that the
user believes could be readily learned or guessed.
- Password does not, to the best of the user's knowledge, include common words that would be in an English dictionary, or from another language with which the user has familiarity.
- Password does not, to the best of the user's knowledge, employ commonly used proper names, including the name of any fictional character or place.
- Password does not contain any simple pattern of letters or numbers, such as
"qwertyxx" or "xyz123xx."
- Password employed by the user on his/her unclassified systems is different than the passwords employed on his/her classified systems.
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