CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 Practice Question

Your company has a policy that requires all stored user passwords to be protected. Which method would be MOST appropriate to use when storing these passwords to maintain security while allowing user authentication to continue to work effectively?

  • Encrypting passwords with a symmetric key

  • Storing passwords in plaintext

  • Encoding passwords with Base64

  • Hashing passwords

CompTIA Security+ SY0-701
Security Architecture
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