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What this check does

DSALTA reads active Okta password policies and compares minimum length and complexity settings to your baseline.
This check also runs on 1 other integration — see Password policy should meet minimum requirements for the full list.
Passes when: Password policy meets or exceeds the configured minimum (length and complexity).
Check parameters. This check evaluates against the following defaults:
  • minLength: 12
  • requireComplexity: true

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Why this matters

Password length and complexity reduce credential stuffing and guessing attacks.

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How to fix

Configure the Okta password policy
  1. Sign in to the Okta Admin Console.
  2. Navigate to Security → Authentication → Password.
  3. Edit the Default Policy (or add a policy for the affected groups).
  4. Set Minimum length to at least 12 and require uppercase, lowercase, number, and symbol.
  5. Set Password age and Password history according to your policy.
  6. Under Lock out, lock the account after 5 failed attempts.
  7. Click Update Policy.
Once resolved, DSALTA records a 200 (compliant) result on this test’s Source Data tab at the next scheduled run.

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Frequently asked questions

Once a day, at 02:00 America/New_York, while the integration is connected. A run is skipped entirely if the integration is not in a connected state, or if the test has been deactivated.To see a fix reflected sooner, open the test from Data Library → Tests and click Run in the Run Test row. You need Full Access to run a test on demand.
The Status column answers “did the check run?”, not “did I pass”. Completed means DSALTA reached your system and finished evaluating — a check that ran and found a problem is still Completed.To see what it found, open the test and read the result code on the Source Data tab. 200 means nothing to fix; 204 means the check did not apply to your environment; 207 means it ran and found a compliance gap you need to act on. See Understanding test results.
Usually not. On an integration-powered check, Failed means DSALTA was blocked and could not evaluate it — result code 403 (a missing permission) or 428 (a setting DSALTA still needs from you). Code 500 means the run failed on DSALTA’s side.A genuine compliance gap does not turn the list red — it runs to completion and shows 207.
Deactivate it: open the test from Data Library → Tests, then use the ⋮ menu at the top right of the panel and choose Deactivate Test. It applies immediately, with no confirmation step.Write your justification in the Comments tab before you deactivate. Once deactivated, every other tab is grayed out, so Comments is the only place an auditor can read why — see Test detail.
No. DSALTA only reads. It never creates, modifies, or deletes resources, and every remediation step is performed by your team directly in the third-party product.