# Security Configuration
URL: https://docs.valsight.ai/security-configuration/
Description: Valsight offers you to set your security configuration individually, to ensure a user and company optimized setting.
Valsight offers you to set your security configuration individually, to ensure a user and company optimized setting.

First step is to navigate to the respective menu, which is found after selecting the configuration button ![image2019-8-8\_14-57-9.png](./images/5094193840.png).

There you choose the item "settings".

![image2019-8-8\_14-53-57.png](./images/5094193925.png)

The second section of the following page shows the security settings and offers a range of different guidelines.

1. You can set the blocking time for repeatedly failing logins.

   ![image2019-8-8\_15-4-44.png](./images/5094193845.png)
2. The number of failed logins before triggering the previous step (1.).

   ![image2019-8-8\_15-5-55.png](./images/5094193935.png)
3. The time in hours for how long the last failed login is stored in Valsight.

   ![image2019-8-8\_15-6-54.png](./images/5094193940.png)
4. In case you want to protect your Excel exports, you can add an additional password to the download and export options.

   ![image2019-8-8\_15-26-52.png](./images/5094191054.png)

## Password settings

> The password settings are not relevant if you are using a company-sigle-sign-on solution to login.

You have also various options to set up your password settings.

You can define digits as mandatory part of a password.
![image2019-8-8\_15-31-48.png](./images/5094191059.png)

The same goes for lower case letters, as well as special characters and upper case letters.
![image2019-8-8\_15-37-2.png](./images/5094190939.png)

To increase your password security, you can set up the minimum length for passwords.

![image2019-8-8\_15-38-44.png](./images/5094190949.png)

You can also define the number of last used passwords, which can not be used for the present one.

![image2019-8-8\_15-40-17.png](./images/5094191074.png)

As one of the most common settings, you are also able to define the time (per days) for how long passwords are valid.

![image2019-8-8\_15-42-41.png](./images/5094191069.png)

A typical and secure configuration would look as follows.

![image2019-8-8\_15-52-12.png](./images/5094191064.png)

## Data source files / Excel files

By default, the original file that are uploaded into the system can also be downloaded again. As those original files are downloaded unmodified, this might be considered a security risk. You can disable the download by setting the respective option "*disableDownloadXLS*". If the option is enabled, the download of data source files is limited to only provide a generated Excel file and not the original.

![Screen Shot 2020-10-23 at 09.14.23.png](./images/5094191653.png)