Passwords remain the most common form of authentication, and attackers have several reliable ways to guess or reuse them. Security+ expects you to recognize the main password attacks from their patterns in logs and to choose the right defense for each. The difference between them is mostly about how many passwords are tried against how many accounts, and where the guesses come from. Once you can picture that pattern, both identifying the attack and picking the control become straightforward.
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