Passwords must meet the following minimum requirements:

• Not contain the user's account name or parts of the user's full name that exceed two consecutive characters
• Be at least eight characters in length
• New password must be different from the last 24 used passwords
• Current password must be at least one day old
• Contain characters from three of the following four categories:

- Uppercase characters (A through Z)

- Lowercase characters (a through z)

- Base 10 digits (0 through 9)

- Non-alphabetic characters (for example, !, $, #, %)