Enabling brute force protection

Keycloak provides a number of mechanisms to help secure your Workbench from identity-based attacks. A brute force attack is a method in which an attacker guesses your password by repeated guessing. To protect your installation against such attacks, follow these steps:

1. Log in to your Keycloak administrative console.
2. Select Realm Settings from the left-hand navigation menu.
3. Select the Security Defenses tab.
4. Select the Brute Force Detection tab.
5. Toggle Enabled to ON.
6. Set the parameters for your organization’s brute force defenses. Hover your mouse over the question mark to see what each parameter manages.
7. Click Save.

To disable these settings at any time, return to the Brute Force Detection tab and toggle Enabled to OFF.

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Other security mitigations

For more information about brute force protection and using Keycloak to mitigate other security threats, please see Keycloak’s official documentation.