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Your Pa$$word doesn't matter

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Alex Weinert
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Jul 09, 2019
(to learn about other credential attacks, see https://aka.ms/allyourcredsarebelongtous)   Every week I have at least one conversation with a security decision maker explaining why a lot of the hy...
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Craig Chambers
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Jul 10, 2019

Thanks for this article. Given the reccomendation in this article for passwords longer than 8 characters (10 seems to be a good minimum), why does Azure AD still allow 8 character passwords? Wouldn't bumping up the requirement to 10 characters make sense, or at least allow organizations to set the character minimum to be >8?