For accounts using password authentication, the Cisco ISE must enforce a minimum 15-character password length.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-242645	CSCO-NM-000400	SV-242645r997486_rule		Medium

Description
Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks. Password length is one factor of several that helps to determine strength and how long it takes to crack a password. The shorter the password, the lower the number of possible combinations that need to be tested before the password is compromised. Use of more characters in a password helps to exponentially increase the time and/or resources required to compromise the password.

Description

Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks. Password length is one factor of several that helps to determine strength and how long it takes to crack a password. The shorter the password, the lower the number of possible combinations that need to be tested before the password is compromised. Use of more characters in a password helps to exponentially increase the time and/or resources required to compromise the password.

STIG	Date
Cisco ISE NDM Security Technical Implementation Guide	2024-06-10

Details

Check Text ( C-45920r714243_chk )
Verify the min-password length is set to 15. Show password policy If the Cisco ISE password policy is not configured to require a minimum 15-character password length, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-45877r714244_fix)
Configure the password policy. password-policy min-password-length 15