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Create a password policy

This article describes how to create a password policy for all the accounts belonging to a managed app.

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Written by Cerby Team
Updated this week

Who can use this feature?

  • Workspace Owners, Super Admins, and Admins

  • Only supported using the Cerby web app

As a workspace Admin, you can create a password policy to enforce automated password rotations for all the accounts saved in your workspace belonging to a managed app. As part of the setup, you can specify the event that triggers the rotations.

NOTE: You can only configure password rotation policies for managed apps that support the password rotation automated task.

To create a password policy, you must complete the following steps:

  1. Log in to your Cerby workspace.

  2. Select the Password Policies option from the left menu. The Password Policies page is displayed with a table of policies.

  3. Click the Create policy button located at the top right of the page. The Create Policy dialog box is displayed.

  4. Enter a name for your policy in the Policy name field.

  5. Select the option from the Event type drop-down menu that corresponds to the event you want to trigger the automated password rotation:

    • User login: Passwords are rotated in a specified time after a user logs in to an account using autofill with the Cerby browser extension or mobile app.

      1. Select the corresponding option from the Schedule interval drop-down menu:

        • 1 hour after login

        • 2 hours after login

        • 4 hours after login

        • 8 hours after login

        • 12 hours after login

        • 1 day after login

        • 2 days after login

    • Schedule: Passwords are rotated at a specified recurring date and time.

      1. Select a date to start the password policy from the Starting date calendar.

      2. Specify the frequency of the password rotations by entering a number and selecting the corresponding option in the Frequency section:

        • days

        • weeks

        • months

        • years

        For example, if you enter 1 and select week, the automated password rotations will be executed every week starting on the date you have selected in step a.

        IMPORTANT: The frequency can only be an interval between one day and one year.

      3. Specify a time window to execute the automated password rotations in the Time window execution section.
        ​IMPORTANT: The time window consists of a start and an end time, and must be at least 8 hours.

  6. Specify the apps for which you want to implement the password policy by completing the following steps:

    1. Enter the name of the app in the Search by app search bar. A list of apps matching the name is displayed below.

    2. Select the app from the list.

    3. Repeat steps a and b as necessary to select multiple apps.

  7. Click the Confirm button. The dialog box closes, and a success message box and the new policy are displayed.

NOTE: Cerby performs only one password rotation every 24 hours after the last successful rotation by policy. You can still perform automated password rotations on demand.

Now you are done.

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