Your privacy depends on your password. To keep your personal information secure, University IT Services recommends that you change your password regularly.
In keeping with best practices to secure the University's student, personnel, and financial records, University IT Services is making changes to our critical systems that will require all users to change their passwords at least every 90 days and use strong passwords. Strong passwords have a minimum length of eight characters, contain a mixture of upper and lower case characters and at least one digit and one special character (i.e., "#", "$", "&", etc.). You will not be able to reuse your last five passwords. In addition, to discourage password guessing to gain unauthorized access, critical systems will lock a user's account after five invalid login attempts.
The Technology Help Desk is putting in place a service that will enable them to provide assistance "24x7" to users who have forgotten their passwords or who are locked out of the system. University IT Services will make these changes to our critical systems as soon as "24x7" password support is available to the community.
More information about these changes will be provided in the next two weeks as we get closer to implementing these changes in how you will manage your password for critical systems.
IT Management Team
