---
id: 6061
title: "Microsoft upends traditional password recommendations with significant new guidance"
source_domain: semperis.com
source_url: "https://www.semperis.com/blog/microsoft-upends-traditional-password-recommendations-with-significant-new-guidance/"
published_at: "2016-07-11T14:20:41Z"
tags: ["cloud", "microsoft", "identity-security", "authentication", "mfa", "passwords", "password-policy", "azure-ad"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/6061"
lang: en
---

# Microsoft upends traditional password recommendations with significant new guidance

## Summary

Microsoft's Password Guidance white paper, drawing on billions of Azure AD logins, advises dropping composition rules and periodic resets, keeping an 8-character minimum, and enforcing risk-based MFA.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** semperis.com
- **Published:** 2016-07-11T14:20:41Z
- **Original:** https://www.semperis.com/blog/microsoft-upends-traditional-password-recommendations-with-significant-new-guidance/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/6061