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Requirements for Changing Online Passwords

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Our examiners made the bank change customers passwords to expire on online banking every 60 days. Of course, customers do not like this. Can you tell me what the requirements are on this?
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I cannot tell you where customers are required to change passwords with this frequency and that is a question for the examiner's stating it is a requirement.

The FFIEC guidance requiring the periodic change of passwords applies to the bankers, not the customers. While we may all agree it is a good practice to change passwords, when they change this frequently and if you also prohibit re-use of passwords, your customers are more likely to write them down - which doesn't help many security issues, or to drop your bank because an occasional user is more likely to get locked out regularly having forgotten the password.

First published on 06/21/2020

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