During a civic-center incident review, analysts see bursts of deauthentication frames that force laptops to reconnect while a nearby adversary captures handshakes. What is the best characterization of this technique?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Deauths are like yanking the power cord so the laptop has to plug back in—while someone watches the reconnect. The kick itself hurts availability and often sets up handshake capture or evil-twin bait. It is not a friendly site survey.
Full Explanation
Deauthentication and related DoS techniques forcibly disconnect stations, creating availability impact and opportunities to capture handshakes or steer clients toward rogue APs. CWSP expects candidates to explain how deauth supports broader WLAN attack chains beyond mere annoyance. Legitimate survey or roaming mechanisms do not rely on hostile deauth floods.