EBK SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
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Author: SOMMERVILLE
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 13, Problem 13.9E
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Validating a password protection system:
Verification and validation processes for a password protection system must focus on security assessment.
Validating a password protection systems are:
- First one needs to identify possible threats. Some of the threats for password protection system are:
- Attacker gains access without a password.
- Attacker guesses a password of an authorized user.
- Users make passwords available to attackers.
- Attacker uses a password cracking tool to discover passwords of authorized users...
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