What is the difference between login throttling and temporary account lockout? what impact on the end user?

1. What is login throttling?
2. What causes account lockouts?
3. What is account lockout?
4. How many unsuccessful attempts does an user account get locked?

What is login throttling?

One of the best countermeasures to these attacks is called "login throttling", which denies a user from attempting logins after a certain number of failed attempts.

What causes account lockouts?

The common causes for account lockouts are: End-user mistake (typing a wrong username or password) Programs with cached credentials or active threads that retain old credentials. Service accounts passwords cached by the service control manager.

What is account lockout?

The account lockout policy “locks” the user's account after a defined number of failed password attempts. The account lockout prevents the user from logging onto the network for a period of time even if the correct password is entered.

How many unsuccessful attempts does an user account get locked?

A locked account can't be used until you reset it or until the number of minutes specified by the Account lockout duration policy setting expires. You can set a value from 1 through 999 failed sign-in attempts, or you can specify that the account will never be locked by setting the value to 0.