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My company has a 6 month probation period. It also has a 6 month password expiry. Because of all the SSO nonsense, it's quite possible for it to lapse without warning.
It's now a running joke that get locked out on the last day of probation, and you're expecting a call from HR any minute.
You might want to let your IT department that 6 months is a really long time
You might wanna read up on the most current NIST guidelines
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/nist-proposes-barring-some-of-the-most-nonsensical-password-rules/
I didn't realize updating IA-5 was part of rev5. We haven't gotten to the IA family yet in our rev5 hardening yet.