Security settings

In the Security settings folder, you define requirements for passwords and critical actions.

Select the User management area

• Open the Security settings folder.

Activate password guidelines

Using the Activate password guidelines option, you define the guidelines for user passwords. These guidelines ensure the security of your users' passwords.

• If you activate the Activate complexity check option, the complexity of passwords is checked according to different criteria.

This will prevent users from entering passwords that contain repetitions, such as "Aaaaa" or "aBcabcabc".

• With The password must contain letters, you define that the passwords must not only include numbers or special characters.
• With The password must consist of upper and lower case letters, you define that the password must contain letter in both upper and lower case.
• With The password must contain numbers, you define that the passwords must not only include letters or special characters.
• With The password must contain special characters, you define that the passwords must not only include numbers or letters.

Enter the password again before exporting

With the Enter the password again before exporting option, you define that users must enter their CAS genesisWorld password again before exporting data. Thus, this setting forces users to re-enter their password even if they have already opened and logged on to CAS genesisWorld.

Executing specific functions forces users to re-enter their passwords, for example, when exporting addresses. Activate the desired options.

In this case, users cannot use the Windows authentication.

Please note

The Enter the password again before exporting option requires that the user executing the respective function have a CAS genesisWorld password and know it.

The administrator defines the CAS genesisWorld password in the user properties.

• User: General tab

If you activate the Enter the password again before exporting option, the Allow only Windows authentication option is deactivated in the properties of all users.

The Support integrated Windows authentication option is still available, this enables users to logon to CAS genesisWorld without their user name and password as the system continues to try to log them on automatically using their current Windows user details.

• Users: Authentication tab

More security settings

• Activate the Prompt to change password at next logon option to prompt users to change their password during their next logon.

The prompt opens for users in the desktop client, CAS genesisWorld Web, and teamWorks after the password of a user has been changed in the Management Console.

This is useful, for example, if you have define the password of a new user account or changed the password of an existing user. Thus, your colleagues receive a notification to create their own password.

• Activate the User can change their e-mail address option to allow users to change their e-mail address.