It's Late is a regional coffee shop that serves quick, casual food such as sandwiches, soups,...

  

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"It's Late" is a regional coffee shop that serves "quick, casual food" such as sandwiches, soups, and salads. Each location also provides free wireless LAN access to its customers. Recently one of the location's networks was successfully attacked and personal customer information was stolen, such as names, email addresses, birthdates, and similar information. It was found that the attack was a password attack and as a consequence the attacker broke into a manager's account and got all the information. [Source: M. Ciampa, Security+ Guide to Network Security Fundamentals, 5th ed. Cengage, 2018.] Answer the following questions for the above case study: a. Identify the possible reasons behind this attack for being successful. ANSWER a): b. Propose your suggestion to the manager as defence mechanism for password attack to avoid future attack. ANSWER b): c. After this attack the management is considering to use different type of authentication mechanism (instead of password authentication). Propose two possible alternates of password authentication and justify your answer for suitability in the above mentioned scenario. "It's Late" is a regional coffee shop that serves "quick, casual food" such as sandwiches, soups, and salads. Each location also provides free wireless LAN access to its customers. Recently one of the location's networks was successfully attacked and personal customer information was stolen, such as names, email addresses, birthdates, and similar information. It was found that the attack was a password attack and as a consequence the attacker broke into a manager's account and got all the information. [Source: M. Ciampa, Security+ Guide to Network Security Fundamentals, 5th ed. Cengage, 2018.] Answer the following questions for the above case study: a. Identify the possible reasons behind this attack for being successful. ANSWER a): b. Propose your suggestion to the manager as defence mechanism for password attack to avoid future attack. ANSWER b): c. After this attack the management is considering to use different type of authentication mechanism (instead of password authentication). Propose two possible alternates of password authentication and justify your answer for suitability in the above mentioned scenario.

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a the possible reasons behind this attack for being successful Weak PasswordsThe manager might have used a weak or easily guessable password making it ... View the full answer