Application Security
Failure to verify that cryptographic functions use sources of randomness with adequate entropy, increasing the risk of predictable keys or tokens.
Quick answer: Failure to verify that cryptographic functions use sources of randomness with adequate entropy, increasing the risk of predictable keys or tokens.
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Failure to verify that cryptographic functions use sources of randomness with adequate entropy, increasing the risk of predictable keys or tokens.
Insufficient Entropy Check matters because it supports clear communication in Application Security contexts for SOC Analysts, Security Engineers, and Incident Responders. It also connects to aviation training and exam language such as CISSP, CompTIA Security+, and CEH.
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In this glossary, Insufficient Entropy Check refers to: Failure to verify that cryptographic functions use sources of randomness with adequate entropy, increasing the risk of predictable keys or tokens.
In cybersecurity communication, this term appears in contexts such as: "SOC alert: The key generation module failed the insufficient entropy check, triggering a high-severity cryptographic warning for the authentication process."
Insufficient Entropy Check matters because it supports clear communication in Application Security contexts for SOC Analysts, Security Engineers, and Incident Responders. It also connects to aviation training and exam language such as CISSP, CompTIA Security+, and CEH.
Insufficient Entropy Check is mainly used by SOC Analysts, Security Engineers, and Incident Responders.
In this glossary, Insufficient Entropy Check is grouped under Application Security. Related pages in this category explain adjacent procedures, commands and operational concepts.
This definition is sourced from ISO 27001, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, MITRE ATT&CK and published by Protermify Cybersecurity as a static cybersecurity reference page.
Failure to verify that cryptographic functions use sources of randomness with adequate entropy, increasing the risk of predictable keys or tokens.
SOC alert: The key generation module failed the insufficient entropy check, triggering a high-severity cryptographic warning for the authentication process.
English reference definition
ISO 27001, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, MITRE ATT&CK
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