SSPR lockout

Look back at Password Reset AuthN Workflow in the Lockout Gate settings where the lockout duration, lockout threshold, and number of times until permanent lockout are set:

SSPR lockout

The settings specify that the workflow can fail 3 times. The user can answer one or all of the questions incorrectly, and have the workflow fail once (one failure count):

SSPR lockout

In our settings, if the workflow fails three times for the same account, the user is temporarily locked out of the SSPR for 15 minutes. This is a service lockout, and not an Active Directory lockout: ...

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