Attacks
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Full Title or Meme
Attacks against an Identity Management system are the most common form attempts to penetrate a protected resource.
Note that the wiki page Attack details some of theoretical aspects of defending against Attacks.
Context
In an area where any known Vulnerability is quickly closed, the best method to discover new only is to simple explore all, or selected high-value, systems that are exposed on the internet. This can be performed by either looking at existing traffic to emulate good traffic, or just brute-force pushing data at systems to see how they respond.