How to effectively defend against Password Spraying Attacks for Companies

Recently I was wondering why even the biggest companies are prone to such simple attacks like the **Password Spraying Attack.**

As the name suggests, it seems like a simple enough attack where they would guess passwords via computer algorithms to try and force the right one. Through some research I found that that Password Spraying is:

*- A brute force attack where the attacker attempts variations of passwords repeatedly in a short amount of time.* (Varnois)

It also mentions that …

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