Password Requirements

For security purposes, you are required to enter a password each time that you sign into this application.

You are prompted to change your password after the first time that you sign in and after intervals that your administrator can configure. You can change your password at any time. Your password can expire in 30, 60, or 90 days. Your company controls the expiration requirements. The default is 90 days. To change your password, see Change Your Password.

Your company's password requirements may include any of the following criteria. The criteria determines which type of characters you can enter and how many of each characters must be included in your password. You may encounter the following requirement criteria:

  • Two of three criteria
  • Three of four criteria
  • Four of four criteria

In some cases, a specific password criteria is required because of the type of content that is included in the account. For example, the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) has mandated that accounts that have access to the IRS Verify search must have a password four of four requirement. The password criteria appears on the page.

The following table contains a description of the password requirements for each type of criteria.

Password Criteria Requirements
Requirement Description
Two of three requirement
  • Your password must be a minimum of eight characters.
  • Your password cannot include any spaces.
  • Your password cannot contain your user ID, or the reverse of your user ID.
  • Your password cannot be the same as any of your previous 12 passwords.
  • Your password cannot have been used in the past 30 days.
  • Your password must contain at least two of the following types of characters:
    • Alphabetic characters
    • Numeric characters
    • Special characters (~ ! @ # $ % & * ( ) { } ; ' . or : )
Three of four requirement
  • Your password must be a minimum of eight characters.
  • Your password cannot include any spaces.
  • Your password cannot contain your user ID, or the reverse of your user ID.
  • Your password cannot be the same as any of your previous 12 passwords.
  • Your password cannot have been used in the past 30 days.
  • Your password must contain at least three of the following types of characters:
    • Uppercase alphabetic characters
    • Lowercase alphabetic characters
    • Numeric characters
    • Special characters (~ ! @ # $ % & * ( ) { } ; ' . or : )
Four of four requirement
  • Your password must be a minimum of eight characters.
  • Your password cannot include any spaces.
  • Your password cannot contain your user ID, or the reverse of your user ID.
  • Your password cannot be the same as any of your previous 12 passwords.
  • Your password cannot have been used in the past 30 days.
  • Your password must contain at least one of each of the following types of characters:
    • Uppercase alphabetic characters
    • Lowercase alphabetic characters
    • Numeric characters
    • Special characters (~ ! @ # $ % & * ( ) { } ; ' . or : )