Managing Password Expiry
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1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
- determining whether a behavior anomaly associated with an account has occurred; and
in response to a determination that the behavior anomaly has occurred, expiring a password associated with the account and forcing the password be changed the next time the password is presented for accessing the account.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for managing the expiration of a password. In one embodiment, the method comprises determining whether a behavior anomaly associated with an account has occurred. In response to a determination that the behavior anomaly has occurred, the method expires a password associated with the account and forces the password be changed the next time the password is presented for accessing the account.
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1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
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determining whether a behavior anomaly associated with an account has occurred; and in response to a determination that the behavior anomaly has occurred, expiring a password associated with the account and forcing the password be changed the next time the password is presented for accessing the account. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A system comprising:
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data storage to store a password expiry policy; and a computing entity coupled to the data storage, the computing entity to determine whether a behavior anomaly associated with an account has occurred according to the password expiry policy, the computing entity, in response to a determination that the behavior anomaly has occurred, to expire a password associated with the account and to force the password be changed next time when the password is presented for login to the account. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A computer readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed by a processing system, cause the processing system to perform a method comprising:
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determining whether a behavior anomaly associated with an account has occurred; and in response to a determination that the behavior anomaly has occurred, expiring a password associated with the account and forcing the password be changed the next time the password is presented for accessing the account. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 19, 20)
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18. The computer readable medium of 14, wherein determining whether a behavior anomaly has occurred further comprises:
determining whether the request is sent from an unauthorized system.
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