Overview Of Active And Passive Attacks In Cybersecurity Training PPT

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This slide introduces the concept of active and passive attacks in Information Security. Information security aims to defend businesses against malicious attacks. The two main categories of such attacks are active and passive attacks.

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This slide provides information on active attacks and its variants. There are three common types of active attack. These are interruption, modification, and fabrication.

Instructor’s Notes: 

• Interruption: The attacker interrupts the original communication and creates new, malicious messages, posing as one of the communicating parties
• Modification: The attacker uses existing communications and replays them to deceive one of the communicating parties or modifies the communication to gain an advantage
• Fabrication: Creates fake or synthetic communications, typically to achieve Denial of Service (DoS). This prevents users from accessing systems or performing routine operations

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This slide gives us information about passive attacks. A passive attack involves a hacker monitoring a system and illicitly copying data without changing it. They then employ this information to breach target systems or disrupt networks.

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This slide tabulates differences between active and passive attacks.