Making Sense of Password Policy Settings
If you are the only one using your computer and your computer is not connected to any sort of network domain, then perhaps you don’t need to worry too much about configuring the Windows Password Policy settings. You can simply make sure you choose a secure password all on your own.
On the other hand, if you are sharing the computer with others, or you are administering security for Windows computers in a network domain, you will want to set the Password Policy configuration up to enforce secure passwords.
It would be nice if people knew enough not to use ‘password’ as their password, but history has shown that many users lack that basic common sense. Rather than trusting your Windows PC or network to faith or (non-existent) common sense, configure the Password Policy settings to make sure the passwords used are secure passwords.
September 20th, 2009 at 7:48 am
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