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GIAC Penetration Tester (GPEN) Topic Area
Focus your study on this topic area with targeted practice questions. This topic area accounts for 15% of our GPEN practice set.
Password Attacks is one of 5 certification topic areas our GIAC Penetration Tester (GPEN) practice set is organised around. At 15% of our practice set, this area carries significant weight and should be a primary study focus.
Our GPEN timed readiness assessment is 60 questions in 2 hours against a 75% readiness benchmark. Those figures and the topic weightings are ours, an independent study structure and not a description of the certification exam. Roughly 9 questions in an assessment come from Password Attacks.
Authentication
The process of verifying the identity of a user, device, or system before granting access to resources. Authentication t...
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
A security mechanism that requires two or more independent credentials to verify a user's identity, combining factors fr...
Single Sign-On (SSO)
An authentication scheme that allows a user to log in with a single set of credentials to access multiple applications a...
IPS (Intrusion Prevention System)
A network security tool that monitors network traffic flows to detect and actively prevent identified threats in real ti...
Hashing
A one-way function that converts input data of any size into a fixed-length string of characters (hash value or digest),...
AES (Advanced Encryption Standard)
A symmetric block cipher algorithm adopted by the U.S. government as the standard for encrypting electronic data, replac...
Malware
Malicious software designed to damage, disrupt, or gain unauthorized access to computer systems, encompassing a broad ca...
Ransomware
A type of malware that encrypts a victim's files or locks system access and demands a ransom payment (typically in crypt...
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