Evaluate the Risk of Password Cracking to Your IT Environment

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Part of PenTest+ Penetration Testing Topic: Hacking

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What you'll do

In this lab, you will evaluate the risk of password cracking to your IT environment.

Create user accounts with passwords
Perform a dictionary-based password crack
Perform a brute force password crack
Perform password guessing
Configure account lockout
Lock and unlock a user account

Note: Once you begin the lab, you will not be able to pause, save, or exit and then return to your lab. Please ensure that you have set aside enough time to complete the lab before you start.

⏱ About 45 minutes
Counts towards: CompTIA PenTest+ (exam PT0-003) · OffSec Certified Professional (exam OSCP)

Roadmaps that use this lab

CompTIA PenTest+ (PT0-003) — step 5: Post-exploitation and lateral movement
OffSec Certified Professional (OSCP) — step 5: Active Directory attack chain
Penetration Tester — career path — step 7: Certify it