DRAFT SP 800-118 Guide to Enterprise Password Management

NIST announces that Draft Special Publication (SP) 800-118, Guide to Enterprise Password Management, has been released for public comment. SP 800-118 is intended to help organizations understand and mitigate common threats against their character-based passwords. The guide focuses on topics such as defining password policy requirements and selecting centralized and local password management solutions.

NIST requests comments on draft SP 800-118 by May 29, 2009. Please submit comments to 800-118comments@... with "Comments SP 800-118" in the subject line.

Drafts page URL for 800-118:

http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/PubsDrafts.html#800-118