Helix Plan features 128-bit AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) for communication/storage and SHA-256 for password hashing.
This is the default security policy in new databases:
| Minimum password length | 12 |
| Minimum number of alphabetic characters in passwords | 1 |
| Minimum number of upper case characters in passwords | 1 |
| Minimum number of lower case characters in passwords | 1 |
| Minimum number of numeric characters in passwords | 1 |
| Minimum number of symbol characters in passwords | 1 |
| Days after which passwords expire | 90 days |
| Days after which tokens expire | 30 days |
| User with administration rights can change security policy | No |
Administrators can change security policy for passwords. We recommend that you change the settings to make passwords harder to break. For example, set a longer password length.
1. Click Admin.
The Admin area opens.
2. Click Security policy in the More settings area.
3. The Security policy dialog box opens.
4. Make any changes, You can make password requirements stronger, set the number of days until passwords and authentication tokens expire, set the number of passwords to save in history, and choose to let users with administration permissions to change the security policy.
5. Click OK to save the changes.