I.S. EN 12251:2004
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HEALTH INFORMATICS - SECURE USER IDENTIFICATION FOR HEALTH CARE - MANAGEMENT AND SECURITY OF AUTHENTICATION BY PASSWORDS
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English
01-01-2004
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Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 Requirements
4.1 Unique identification and authentication
4.2 Identification and authentication prior to all other
interactions
4.3 Associating unique identity with users
4.4 Maintaining the identity of active users
4.5 Log-on message
4.6 Number of log-on trials
4.7 Incorrectly performed log-on procedure
4.8 Display of log-on statistics
4.9 Password sharing
4.10 Password storage
4.11 Logging of passwords
4.12 Password display suppression
4.13 User-changeability of passwords
4.14 Default passwords
4.15 Initialised passwords
4.16 Temporary passwords
4.17 Password expiration
4.18 Password expiration notification
4.19 Password reuse
4.20 Password complexity
Annex A (informative) Potential password complexity
requirements
Annex B (informative) User responsibilities
Annex C (informative) Password communication
Bibliography
Improves the authentication of individual users of health care IT systems, by strengthening the automatic software procedures associated with the management of user identifiers and passwords, without resorting to additional hardware facilities.
| DevelopmentNote |
Supersedes I.S. ENV 12251 (11/2004)
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| DocumentType |
Standard
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| Pages |
15
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| PublisherName |
National Standards Authority of Ireland
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| Status |
Current
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| Supersedes |
| Standards | Relationship |
| SN EN 12251 : 2005 | Identical |
| NF EN 12251 : 2004 | Identical |
| UNI EN 12251 : 2004 | Identical |
| BS EN 12251:2004 | Identical |
| EN 12251:2004 | Identical |
| NEN EN 12251 : 2004 | Identical |
| NS EN 12251 : 1ED 2004 | Identical |
| DIN EN 12251:2005-07 | Identical |
| NBN EN 12251 : 2004 | Identical |
| UNE-EN 12251:2004 | Identical |
| ECMA 205 : 1ED 93 | COMMERCIALLY ORIENTED FUNCTIONALITY CLASS FOR SECURITY EVALUATION (COFC) |
| ISO 7498-2:1989 | Information processing systems Open Systems Interconnection Basic Reference Model Part 2: Security Architecture |
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