{"id":2403,"date":"2019-02-19T11:40:24","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T16:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.exchangedefender.com\/blog\/?p=2403"},"modified":"2019-02-19T11:40:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T16:40:24","slug":"exchangedefender-exchange-account-lockout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.exchangedefender.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/exchangedefender-exchange-account-lockout\/","title":{"rendered":"ExchangeDefender Exchange Account Lockout"},"content":{"rendered":"

ExchangeDefender is relieved to announce the availability of automated account lockout<\/strong> notifications<\/em>. Our clients now have the ability to automatically locate, secure, and unlock email accounts that have been locked down due to too many bad login attempts.<\/p>\n

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You will now notice a red lock icon next to any accounts that have been locked out and you can choose how to proceed in terms of restoring account access:<\/p>\n

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Password hacking and guessing is rampant, and has only been getting worse through 2018. Thankfully, we’ve automated the process of unlocking and changing authentication credentials in 2019.<\/p>\n

However, there is a special case in which just “Unlock Only<\/strong>” option may be the best.<\/p>\n

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Suppose you have a power user that has a desktop at work, at home, a laptop or two, 2 iPads, iPhone, Galaxy S9 and a miscellaneous other device that is set to sync mail every minute. Totally not talking about our CEO. But suppose that is the case and you just changed the password – well if all these other devices are trying to authenticate with the old password you may actually trip your corporate policy for the unlock limit and lock the account again.<\/p>\n

We hope this automated system will save our partners a ton of time and make managing security and security incidents a breeze. We wish we could have delivered this much sooner but as anyone involved in cybersecurity will tell you, priority #1 is always mitigation of the issue (which we’ve done through all our Exchange 2016 UI and management discussed in our webinars).<\/p>\n

This feature will go live later this week (Feb 21, 2019<\/strong>) – please give us feedback and suggestions on what more we can do to give you more power or save you time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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