STIGUI
V-273196CAT II — Medium severitySV-273196r1098855_rule

Okta must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one uppercase character be used.

Rule version OKTA-APP-000670 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-31

Discussion

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 is, the greater the number of possible combinations that need to be tested before the password is compromised.

Check

From the Admin Console: 1. Select Security >> Authenticators. 2. Click the "Actions" button next to the "Password" row and select "Edit". 3. For each listed policy, verify "Upper case letter" is checked.

For each policy, if "Upper case letter" is not checked, this is a finding.

Fix

From the Admin Console: 1. Select Security >> Authenticators. 2. Click the "Actions" button next to the "Password" row and select "Edit". 3. For each listed policy: - Click "Edit". - Set "Upper case letter" to checked.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-273196
Group title
SRG-APP-000166
Rule ID
SV-273196r1098855_rule
Check ID
C-77287r1098853_chk
Fix ID
F-77192r1098854_fix