The Edge SWG must enforce a minimum 15-character password length.

Severity	Group ID	Group Title	Version	Rule ID	Date	STIG Version
medium	V-279257	SRG-APP-000164-NDM-000252	SYME-ND-000600	SV-279257r1170535_rule	2025-12-18	1

Description
Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks. Password length is one factor of several that helps to determine strength and how long it takes to crack a password. The shorter the password, the lower the number of possible combinations that must be tested before the password is compromised. Use of more characters in a password helps to increase exponentially the time and/or resources required to compromise the password.

Description

Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks. Password length is one factor of several that helps to determine strength and how long it takes to crack a password. The shorter the password, the lower the number of possible combinations that must be tested before the password is compromised. Use of more characters in a password helps to increase exponentially the time and/or resources required to compromise the password.

ℹ️ Check
1. Log in to the Edge SWG SSH CLI. 2. Enter "show configuration". 3. Move down the configuration to the "security password-policy" section. If the configuration "security password-policy min-length" is not set to "15", this is a finding.

✔️ Fix
1. Log in to the Edge SWG SSH CLI. 2. Enter "enable" and "configure terminal". 3. Enter "security password-policy min-length 15". 4. Enter "security password-policy min-groups 4".