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CompTIA Security+ study material · question 292 of 611

What does the Federation Assurance Level describe?

  1. How strongly an assertion is protected against forgery, tampering and replay
  2. How many applications trust the identity provider
  3. How often the user must reauthenticate
  4. How thoroughly the subscriber was identity proofed
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Answer: A. How strongly an assertion is protected against forgery, tampering and replay

FAL is about the assertion between provider and relying party; IAL covers proofing and AAL covers authentication.

Source: NIST SP 800-63C Rev. 4 (NIST) — SP 800-63C-4 › Federation Assurance Levels

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