This document describes and justifies current password management systems best practices in an enterprise network. It is intended to offer reasoned guidance to information technology decision makers when they set security policy and design network infrastructure that includes passwords.

Develop a single password policy that is implemented consistently across users and systems. Consider potential external and internal threats, as well as user behavior. Communicate the policy to employees and other users, and monitor for compliance.

Password synchronization is any process that helps users to keep the passwords that they use to log into different systems the same. There is some debate as to whether password synchronization makes systems more secure, or less.

The task of user authentication is performed by your server. In a typical network login, a user will identify herself to the Elektron server by providing a username nd password. Elektron will then verify that the username exists, and if so, that the password provided matches the password associated with the username in Elektron's database. If both conditions are met, the user is granted access to the network