ISC Partners with DAR and Others to Enhance PennKey Services	Print Issue
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Over the summer, a cross-ISC team, working closely with Penn’s IT community and with Development and Alumni Relations, developed enhanced features that make it easier to create a PennKey and to select a strong password that is easy to remember. 

Highlights include:

• New password rules that make it easier to select a secure password. Users can “combine four or more unrelated words” to create a strong password that’s easy to remember, or construct a shorter strong password using a mixture of character types.
• A password strength meter that gives real-time feedback as users type candidate passwords, indicating when the rules have been satisfied.
  New features that enable users to test whether their new PennKey is working, along with links to support resources if it is not.
• Additional features include improved assistance with forgotten usernames and passwords, an easier and clearer process for creating your PennKey username and password, and improved notifications when changes are made to the account.

Questions about the enhancements or about PennKey services in general can be directed to ISC Client Care at help@isc.upenn.edu

—Thomas H. Murphy,
Vice President, Information Systems and Computing and University CIO