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Required Password Controls

CA Top Secret automatically records a history of the three prior passwords and uses this history in password change verification. A user is not allowed to change a password to a new password equal to any of the three prior passwords. In fact, a user cannot create a new password that is similar to any of the three prior passwords. Note that this checking is not done when an administrator replaces a password and the replacement does not update the password history.

This feature can be included in your password strategy and communicated to your user community.