Configuring passwords to meet the complexity requirements prevents which of the following?

1. Which password policy setting should you use to prevent users from reusing their passwords too quickly?
2. Which security feature in Windows prevents malware by limiting user privilege levels?
3. Which type of encryption is the fastest strongest and best suited to encrypting large amounts of information?
4. What is BitLocker drive encryption user aware and can be used to protect?
5. Which of the following is used to prevent the reuse of passwords?
6. What are 3 things you should avoid when creating passwords?
7. Which security feature in Windows 10 prevents malware from installing or executing by limiting user privilege levels?
8. Which of the following Windows 10 account features can be used to restrict user access to one app?
9. Which type of security control is used to meet a requirement when the requirement Cannot be directly met?
10. Which encryption is best for passwords?
11. Which of the following is the best policy to use for your passwords?
12. Do differences in password policies prevent password reuse?
13. Which password policy is used to determine how soon a user can change their password?

Which password policy setting should you use to prevent users from reusing their passwords too quickly?

The Enforce password history policy setting determines the number of unique new passwords that must be associated with a user account before an old password can be reused.

Which security feature in Windows prevents malware by limiting user privilege levels?

Microsoft SmartScreen

SmartScreen is a built-in feature that scans and prevents the execution of known malware.

Which type of encryption is the fastest strongest and best suited to encrypting large amounts of information?

Symmetric cryptography is best suited for bulk encryption because it is much faster than asymmetric cryptography. With symmetric cryptography: Both parties share the same key (which is kept secret). Before communications begin, both parties must exchange the shared secret key.

What is BitLocker drive encryption user aware and can be used to protect?

BitLocker Drive Encryption is user aware and can be used to protect individual files on a shared computer.

Which of the following is used to prevent the reuse of passwords?

Using a password manager

One way to avoid reusing passwords, even with 191 different accounts, is to use a password manager. Password managers make it easy to store, protect, and use a variety of passwords.

What are 3 things you should avoid when creating passwords?

DON'T use blank spaces in your password. DON'T use a word contained in English or foreign language dictionaries, spelling lists or commonly digitized texts such as the Bible or an encyclopedia. DON'T use an alphabet sequence (lmnopqrst), a number sequence (12345678) or a keyboard sequence (qwertyuop).

Which security feature in Windows 10 prevents malware from installing or executing by limiting user privilege levels?

User Account Control (UAC) helps prevent malware from damaging a PC and helps organizations deploy a better-managed desktop. With UAC, apps and tasks always run in the security context of a non-administrator account, unless an administrator specifically authorizes administrator-level access to the system.

Which of the following Windows 10 account features can be used to restrict user access to one app?

In modern versions of Windows, including Windows 10, there is a feature called Assigned Access, otherwise known as Kiosk Mode. Assigned Access configures a user account so that only a single Universal Windows application will run inside that user account.

Which type of security control is used to meet a requirement when the requirement Cannot be directly met?

A compensating control, also called an alternative control, is a mechanism that is put in place to satisfy the requirement for a security measure that is deemed too difficult or impractical to implement at the present time.

Which encryption is best for passwords?

PBKDF2 is recommended by NIST and has FIPS-140 validated implementations. So, it should be the preferred algorithm when these are required. PBKDF2 requires that you select an internal hashing algorithm such as an HMAC or a variety of other hashing algorithms. HMAC-SHA-256 is widely supported and is recommended by NIST.

Which of the following is the best policy to use for your passwords?

Some of the password storage best practice policies that companies use include: Requiring that passwords contain a mixture of lowercase and uppercase characters. Passwords need to be a certain length. Passwords need to contain a mixture of lowercase, uppercase, numbers and special characters.

Do differences in password policies prevent password reuse?

This illustrates that the differences in current policies do not prevent password reuse. However, helping users to come up with smarter reuse strategies is an im- portant topic to reduce both burden and security risks. Our future work will focus on password policies designed around password reuse.

Which password policy is used to determine how soon a user can change their password?

The Minimum password age policy setting determines the period of time (in days) that a password must be used before the user can change it. You can set a value between 1 and 998 days, or you can allow password changes immediately by setting the number of days to 0.