Domain Password Security

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Miranda

I've enabled a GPO to have my domain accounts locked out
after 5 invalid logon attempts. Will this prevent someone
on my internal LAN from running password cracking software
to try and break my Administrator password?

Thanks,

Miranda
 
Yes, most likely! password cracking utilities usually use a dictionary
match first, then brute force.
If someone was to do that, you'd know immediately though by simply reviewing
the Security Event Log on the server - you'd thousands of denied logon
attempts from the same workstation (usually).
 
Yeah it should I've done the same, then as a test ran l0pht crack. It
worked fine for me.
 
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