ACARA 9-10 Digital Technologies: Authentication and proving identity
Students learn the confidentiality, integrity and availability goals and how passwords, hashing, multi-factor and biometric authentication check who a user is.
One content description (AC9TDI10K01, AC9TDI10P13) from the full ACARA Digital Technologies Years 9–10 — Networked Systems and Access Control journey. All 17 modules below are in that journey too, with the same content — add just these to a class, or the whole strand.
Modules (17)
1
Confidentiality
2
Integrity
3
Availability
4
Authentication vs authorisation
5
Username and password
6
Strong passwords
7
Weak passwords
8
Brute-force and dictionary attacks
9
Why passwords are stored as hashes
10
Salting a password hash
11
Password manager
12
Authentication factors
13
Multi-factor authentication
14
Types of MFA
15
Biometric authentication
16
Adaptive (risk-based) authentication
17
Limits of MFA
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