UK Cyber Essentials
Secure Configuration

UK Cyber Essentials CE-SC.5: Password-Based Authentication Quality

Where passwords are the only factor, protect against brute force by lockout (max 10 attempts in 5 min), throttling, or by enforcing one of: MFA, password length 12+, length 8+ with deny list, or length 8+ with technical controls.

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UK Cyber Essentials CE-SC.5 is one control. If you already hold one of the frameworks below, a reviewed crosswalk already says how much of UK Cyber Essentials your existing evidence covers. Hold FedRAMP Moderate and 29 of 36 UK Cyber Essentials controls already carry evidence.

Each report names every control your existing framework evidences, every one it does not, the reasoning behind each claim, and the claims that were argued against and rejected. 0 were rejected on the FedRAMP Moderate pair alone.

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