CND Network Attacks And Defense Strategies Practice Question

An enterprise wireless network uses WPA2-Enterprise for authentication. A security administrator wants to upgrade the security posture to protect against offline dictionary attacks on handshakes and provide enhanced cryptographic cipher suites. Which standard should be implemented?

Answer choices

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Correct answer & explanation

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Upgrade the wireless infrastructure to WPA3-Enterprise using Simultaneous Authentication of Equals (SAE) and Protected Management Frames (PMF).

WPA3 replaces the vulnerable 4-way handshake of WPA2 with Simultaneous Authentication of Equals (SAE), which protects against offline dictionary attacks even if weak passwords are chosen.

Answer analysis

Option-by-option breakdown

For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.

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Deploy MAC Authentication Bypass (MAB) with RADIUS accounting enabled.
Why it's wrong here
MAB is used for non-supplicant IoT devices and provides virtually no wireless encryption security.
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Implement WEP encryption with dynamic 802.1X key rotation.
Why it's wrong here
WEP is fundamentally broken and insecure regardless of key rotation mechanisms.
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Configure WPA2-Personal with a pre-shared key (PSK) length exceeding 64 characters.
Why it's wrong here
While long PSKs help, WPA2-Personal remains susceptible to offline 4-way handshake capture and cracking.
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Upgrade the wireless infrastructure to WPA3-Enterprise using Simultaneous Authentication of Equals (SAE) and Protected Management Frames (PMF).
Why this is correct
WPA3-Enterprise with SAE and PMF eliminates vulnerable 4-way handshakes and management frame spoofing.

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