General; Safety Information - Abus Secvest User Manual

2. General

2.1 Safety information

The alarm panel and its connected components must not under any circumstances come into contact with
water, such as in the bathroom. Using the device for purposes other than those described may damage this
product and may also lead to hazards such as short circuits, fire or electric shock. The power supply unit is
suitable for operation on the public electrical grid with 230 V AC/50 Hz. No part of the product may be changed
or modified in any way. Connection to the public electrical grid is subject to your country's specific regulations.
Please seek information on these regulations before connecting the product to the public grid. Only use the
device for the purpose for which it was built and designed. Any other use is considered unintended.
During the initial set-up of the alarm control panel there is neither a predefined standard installer code
nor a predefined standard administrator code. These need to be individually assigned in the set-up wizard.
After the initial start-up please change the default installer name (code = name) as well as the default
administrator name (code = name) to secure user names. When adding users, please make sure you are
careful about how log-in details are handled.
Handling log-in details for your security systems
Basics:
• User names and codes for logging into security systems should be known only by the legal owners and
never given out to unauthorised parties.
• If you have to pass this information on via email, please take care to send the user name and code in
two separate emails.
• User names and codes should be changed regularly.
Standards:
• User names must be at least eight characters long.
• They should ideally contain characters from at least three of the following categories:
uppercase letters, lowercase letters, special characters, and numbers.
• User names should never contain your own name, the name of a family member, your pet, your best
friend or your favourite celebrity, or your hobby or date of birth.
• Avoid using user names and codes that you use on other websites or that could be easily guessed by
others.
• Your user name should not be able to be found in a dictionary and should never be a product name.
• It should not be a conventional series of characters, a repeated pattern or a keyboard pattern, such as
asdfgh or 1234abcd.
• You should avoid only using numbers at the end of your user name or using one of the more typical
special characters (!). ? #) at the beginning or end to compensate for an otherwise simple user name.
• User names and codes should be changed at least every 180 days.
• New user names and codes should not be identical to any of the three combinations used before them.
• New user names and codes should differ from user names and codes that have been used before by at
least two characters.
• Macros and scripts should not be used to input user names and codes.
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