A list of weak, frequently attacked passwords that Microsoft keeps up to date from its own security signals. Microsoft Entra Password Protection enforces it for every tenant, and administrators cannot change its contents.
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In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains Global banned password list in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- List
Permission on Key Vault secrets allowing a caller to enumerate those in a vault, though their values are not returned.
- Microsoft Entra Password Protection
Stops people picking easily guessed passwords, close variations of them and words linked to your own organisation, checking against Microsoft's global banned list and any custom list you add. Agents can extend it to on-premises Active Directory.
- Tenant
A trusted, dedicated Microsoft Entra ID instance that stores the users, groups and app registrations of one organisation. A subscription trusts only a single tenant, although a tenant can be trusted by several subscriptions.