ECSA v10: EC-Council Certified Security Analyst v10

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Adam is an IT administrator at Syncan Ltd. He is assigned various IT tasks, such as creating new user accounts, managing backups/restores, security authentication and passwords, and so on. While carrying out these tasks, he was asked to use the latest and most secure authentication protocol to encrypt users’ passwords stored in Microsoft Windows OS-based systems.

Which of the following authentication protocols should Adam use to meet this objective?

Explanation

NTLMv2 is the strengthened version of NTLM and improves authentication and session-security mechanisms over LAN Manager and earlier NTLM implementations. Microsoft documentation recommends configuring compatible systems to send NTLMv2 responses only when NTLM-family authentication is required.

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