Lauren is a network security officer for her agency, a large state-run agency in California. Lauren has been asked by the IT manager of another state agency to perform a security audit on their network. This audit she has been asked to perform will be an external audit. The IT manager thought that Lauren would be a great candidate for this task since she does not work for the other agency but is an accomplished IT auditor. The first task that she has been asked to perform is to attempt to crack user passwords. Since Lauren knows that all state agency passwords must abide by the same password policy, she believes she can finish this particular task quickly. What would be the best password attack methodfor Lauren to use in this situation?

A.
Lauren should use a rule-based attack on the agency’s user passwords.

B.
Lauren can produce the best and fastest results if she uses a dictionary attack.

C.
A hyberfil-based password attack would be the best method of password cracking in this scenario.

D.
She should utilize the reverse-encryption password cracking technique since she knows the password policy.