Account lockout is a mitigation strategy used by Jane, the administrator, to combat which of the
following attacks? (Select TWO).

A.
Spoofing

B.
Man-in-the-middle

C.
Dictionary

D.
Brute force

E.
Privilege escalation

Explanation:
Account lockout is a useful method for slowing down online password-guessing attacks. A
dictionary attack performs password guessing by making use of a pre-existing list of likely
passwords. A brute-force attack is intended to try every possible valid combination of characters to
create possible passwords in the attempt to discover the specific passwords used by user
accounts.