{"id":66672,"date":"2013-05-17T12:23:41","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T16:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/?page_id=66672"},"modified":"2019-10-11T11:36:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T15:36:52","slug":"cached-passwords","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/security\/iam\/directory\/ad\/cached-passwords\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Server Cached Passwords Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cached passwords are credentials used by Windows systems in the event the system cannot contact a Domain Controller. In that event, the system will compare any credential supplied, with a cached version of the same. This feature is predominantly designed for mobile devices when they cannot access Active Directory Domain Controllers.<\/p>\n<p>Using Microsoft\u2019s recommended best practices, <strong>IS&amp;T has disabled all cached passwords on Windows Servers associated with Active Directory. <\/strong>This policy\u00a0reduces the likelihood of someone acquiring access to Windows Servers illegally, and significantly reduces the risk of compromise or abuse.<\/p>\n<h5>Related Microsoft resources:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/hh994565(v=ws.10).aspx\">Cached and Stored Credentials Technical Overview<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/jj852185(v=ws.10).aspx\">Network access: Do not allow storage of passwords and credentials for network authentication<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cached passwords are credentials used by Windows systems in the event the system cannot contact a Domain Controller. In that event, the system will compare any credential supplied, with a cached version of the same. This feature is predominantly designed for mobile devices when they cannot access Active Directory Domain Controllers. Using Microsoft\u2019s recommended best&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1348,"featured_media":0,"parent":1191,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1348"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66672"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123882,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66672\/revisions\/123882"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}