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Network, cryptographic and credential attacks

Domain 2: threats, vulnerabilities, and mitigations (V7 22%) / attacks (V8 24%) · Lesson 7 of 8

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Lesson 7 of 8 · Domain 2: threats, vulnerabilities, and mitigations (V7 22%) / attacks (V8 24%)

Network, cryptographic and credential attacks

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Analyse DDoS (including amplified and reflected), DNS attacks (cache poisoning, hijacking), on-path, spoofing, sniffing and rogue/evil-twin wireless attacks from traffic or log evidence
Recognise protocol/cryptographic downgrade attacks, and collision and birthday attacks on hashes (SY0-701)

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Select the control that stops each attack (rate limiting, DNSSEC, 802.1X, lockout thresholds, phishing-resistant MFA, TLS with HSTS)

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