The Cisco SNA appliance must be configured to enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one lowercase character be used.

Use of a complex password helps to increase the time and resources required to compromise the password. Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks.

Password complexity is one factor of several that determine how long it takes to crack a password. The more complex the password, the greater the number of possible combinations that need to be tested before the password is compromised.

Multifactor authentication (MFA) is required for all administrative and user accounts on network devices, except for an account of last resort. Passwords should only be used when MFA using public key infrastructure (PKI) is not available, and for the account of last resort.

Review the Password Policy configuration of the Cisco SNA appliance.

Navigate to SNA Dashboard >> Central Management >> Inventory >> Actions... >> Edit Appliance Configuration >> General >> Password Policy >> Minimum Number of Lower Case Letters in Password. Verify the number is "1" or greater.

If the Cisco SNA appliance is not configured to require at least one lowercase character be used in local account passwords, this is a finding.

Configure the Cisco SNA appliance to enforce password complexity by requiring at least one lowercase character be used.

Navigate to SNA Dashboard >> Configure >> Central Management >> Inventory >> Actions... >> Edit Appliance Configuration >> General >> Password Policy >> Minimum Number of Lower Case Letters in Password. Set to "1" or greater.

Click "Apply Settings".