To ensure compliance with a security policy requiring that passwords be a combination of letters and numbers,
an IS auditor should recommend that:

A.
the company policy be changed.

B.
passwords are periodically changed.

C.
an automated password management tool be used.

D.
security awareness training is delivered.

Explanation:
The use of an automated password management tool is a preventive control measure. The software would
prevent repetition (semantic) and would enforce syntactic rules, thus making the passwords robust. It would
also provide a method for ensuring frequent changes and would prevent the same user from reusing their old
password for a designated period of time. Choices A, B and D do not enforce compliance.