Spoofing

Spoofing is pretending to be something or someone you’re not. Spoofing violates authentication.

Typical victims include processes, external entities, or people.

Example Threats

  • Spoofing a person
  • spoofing a process
  • spoofing a “file” on disk
  • spoofing a network address
  • spoofing a machine
  • spoofing a role.