diff --git a/backend/src/app/auth.clj b/backend/src/app/auth.clj
index 500f07916f..0037e69001 100644
--- a/backend/src/app/auth.clj
+++ b/backend/src/app/auth.clj
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@
 
 (def default-params
   {:alg :argon2id
-   :memory (* 32768 2)
-   :iterations 5
+   :memory (* 32768 2) ;; 64 MiB
+   :iterations 7
    :parallelism (px/get-available-processors)})
 
 (defn derive-password