What this policy is
Defines password / passphrase / MFA requirements for human and service identities — length, complexity, rotation, shared-secret handling, and acceptable storage (password manager).
Why every organization needs one
Weak or reused passwords are the most-exploited vector. NIST SP 800-63B updated thinking (length over complexity, MFA always) is now the expected baseline; the policy is the artefact.
What a competent Password Management Policy typically contains
- Purpose and scope
- Roles and responsibilities
- Definitions
- Length + composition requirements
- MFA scope and methods
- Password-manager adoption
- Service-account credential rotation
- Review cadence (typically annual) and version control
- Approval, sign-off and effective date
How iCompaas tracks this policy
The icompaas policy-doc producer manages this document through an 8-state lifecycle: draft → generated → internal_qa → customer_review → in_review → approved → signed (with rejected as a terminal side-state). The producer publishes a policy_doc_password_management_policy_signed compliance finding once at least one document of this kind reaches the signed state for the account being assessed; the finding then rolls up into every compliance framework that references this policy (see the table below).
Compliance frameworks that reference this policy
The icompaas compliance controls library links every policy document to the controls in each framework that require, evidence, or otherwise rely on it. Below: every control across every framework in the iCompaas catalogue that names this policy as part of its evidence base. Each control links to its own dedicated page with auditor-view content + implementation guidance.
| Framework | Control | Title | Component |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISO/IEC 27001:2022 | A.5.17 | Authentication information | Organizational controls |
| ISO/IEC 27001:2022 | A.8.5 | Secure authentication | Technological controls |
| ISO/IEC 27701:2025 | A.3.23 | Secure authentication | Security considerations |
3 controls across 2 frameworks reference this policy.
About this page
This article is part of the iCompaas Policy Documents library — one page per signed-document type the icompaas policy-doc producer tracks for customer accounts. The article is intentionally framework-agnostic: a customer signing a policy of this kind gets the same regulatory benefit across every framework that references it.