A small business currently uses simple 6-character passwords for all employee accounts. After a breach, the owner wants to reduce the risk of brute-force attacks without requiring additional hardware or software. Which policy change is the MOST effective first step?

Disable the guest account on all computers

Use a fingerprint reader on each computer

Require passwords to be at least 12 characters and include a mix of character types

What is the role of a digital certificate in establishing trust between two parties?

It encrypts all data transmitted between the two parties

It verifies the identity of the certificate holder and binds a public key to that identity

It stores the user's password in an encrypted format

It provides a shared secret key for symmetric encryption

What is the primary goal of ransomware?

To steal sensitive data and sell it

To replicate itself across networks

To hide its presence on a system

To encrypt a victim's files and demand payment for the decryption key

What is the primary purpose of encrypting data at rest?

To verify the identity of the user accessing the data

To speed up data access for authorized users

To protect data from unauthorized access when it is stored on a disk or other media

To ensure data is not modified during transmission over a network

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6.2. Describe Foundational Security Concepts. 100-150 Practice Questions (Page 1)

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A small business currently uses simple 6-character passwords for all employee accounts. After a breach, the owner wants to reduce the risk of brute-force attacks without requiring additional hardware or software. Which policy change is the MOST effective first step?
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A network administrator wants to track which users log in to the network and what resources they access. Which component of the AAA framework should they use to record this information?
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What is the role of a digital certificate in establishing trust between two parties?
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What is the primary goal of ransomware?
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