Password Policy Generator
Generate a complete password security policy for your organization. Customize requirements and download a ready-to-use document.
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PASSWORD SECURITY POLICY Organization: Your Organization Security Level: Standard Generated: October 31, 2026 Generated by: RandomPasswordGeneratorFree.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. PASSWORD REQUIREMENTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Minimum length: 12 characters Maximum length: 128 characters Character requirements: ✔ At least one uppercase letter (A–Z) ✔ At least one lowercase letter (a–z) ✔ At least one number (0–9) ✔ At least one special character (!@#$%^&*...) Prohibited patterns: ✔ Password must not contain the username or email address ✔ Password must not be a common dictionary word ✔ No sequential characters (e.g. abc, 123) or repeated characters (e.g. aaa) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 2. PASSWORD EXPIRATION & HISTORY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Password expiration: Every 90 days Password history: Cannot reuse the last 5 passwords ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 3. ACCOUNT LOCKOUT POLICY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Failed login attempts before lockout: 5 Lockout duration: 30 minutes Account reset: Requires administrator action or verified self-service reset ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 4. MULTI-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ MFA: Strongly recommended but not mandatory Encourage users to enable authenticator apps ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 5. SESSION MANAGEMENT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Idle session timeout: 240 minutes Concurrent sessions: Limited to 3 per account ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 6. RESPONSIBILITIES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Users must: • Never share passwords with others • Use a unique password for each account or system • Report suspected compromises immediately to IT/security • Use a reputable password manager • Not write passwords on paper or store them in unencrypted files ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DISCLAIMER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This policy was generated as a template by RandomPasswordGeneratorFree.com. Review and adapt it to your organization's specific needs and applicable regulations (NIST SP 800-63B, GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, etc.) before adoption.
NIST SP 800-63B guidelines (2024)
NIST's latest recommendations shift away from mandatory periodic password changes and complex requirements. Instead, they emphasize:
- Minimum 8 characters (15+ recommended for high-security)
- Block commonly-used passwords and breached passwords
- No mandatory complexity rules (they lead to predictable patterns)
- No mandatory periodic expiration (change only if compromised)
- Support passwords up to 64+ characters
- Allow all printable ASCII characters and Unicode
Important disclaimer
This generator produces a policy template. Before adopting it, have it reviewed by a qualified security professional and ensure it meets your applicable regulations (NIST, GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc.). Policy requirements vary by industry and jurisdiction.