A Tester Was Able to Leverage a Pass-The-Hash Attack During

question 50

Multiple Choice

A tester was able to leverage a pass-the-hash attack during a recent penetration test. The tester gained a foothold and moved laterally through the network. Which of the following would prevent this type of attack from reoccurring?

• A) Renaming all active service accounts and disabling all inactive service accounts
• B) Creating separate accounts for privileged access that are not used to log on to local machines
• C) Enabling full-disk encryption on all workstations that are used by administrators and disabling RDP
• D) Increasing the password complexity requirements and setting account expiration dates

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