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ISC2 CISSP 2024 outline · Domain 5: Identity & access management

Access control attacks and biometrics: FAR, FRR, CER

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Last reviewed September 30, 2026 · Leer en español

Understanding how attackers go after access controls helps you choose the right defenses. The CISSP focuses on recognizing each attack and the control that defeats it, and then on biometrics, including the error rates used to compare biometric systems. This is a lesson where a few precise definitions, especially Type I and Type II errors, earn easy marks.

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