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CYB 205 Infrastructure Administration
Q: What type of attack would the following precautions help prevent?
Requesting proof of identity
Requiring callback authorizations on voice-only requests
Not changing passwords via voice communications
A: Social engineering
Explanation: Social engineering encompasses almost any effort to learn about the people in the organization and find exploitable weaknesses via those people. Each of the precautions (requesting proof of identity, requiring callback authorizations on voice-only requests, and not changing passwords via voice communications) helps to prevent social engineering by helping prevent exploitation of trust. Avoiding voice-only communications is particularly important since establishing identity over the phone is difficult.Answers B, A, and C are incorrect because the listed attacks would not be prevented by these techniques.
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