Download How Secure Is Your Wireless Network? Safeguarding Your Wi-Fi by Lee Barken PDF

By Lee Barken

You can now have the striking advantages of instant LANs with out falling sufferer to their infamous safety flaws. best instant protection professional Lee Barken indicates you useful workarounds and fixes for the vulnerabilities in modern WLANs, introduces high-security instant protocols new to undefined, and gives step by step directions for shielding your whole instant info, from the house to the enterprise.This is the definitive and easy-to-use WLAN defense booklet you have been looking for-whether you are a community administrator,security professional, supervisor, or domestic consumer.

Show description

Read Online or Download How Secure Is Your Wireless Network? Safeguarding Your Wi-Fi LAN PDF

Similar network security books

Guide to Computer Forensics and Investigations (3rd Edition)

Grasp the talents essential to release and whole a profitable laptop research with the up to date fourth variation of this well known e-book, advisor TO machine FORENSICS AND INVESTIGATIONS. This source publications readers via accomplishing a high-tech research, from buying electronic facts to reporting its findings.

The Executive MBA in Information Security

In response to the Brookings Institute, an organization’s info and different intangible resources account for over eighty percentage of its industry worth. because the basic sponsors and implementers of knowledge protection courses, it really is crucial for these in key management positions to own a pretty good figuring out of the always evolving primary thoughts of knowledge defense administration.

Intrusion Detection with SNORT: Advanced IDS Techniques Using SNORT, Apache, MySQL, PHP, and ACID

Community safeguard has turn into a major a part of company IT method and safeguarding the entire nooks and crannies of your community should be well timed and dear. This booklet presents information regarding find out how to use loose Open resource instruments to construct and deal with an Intrusion Detection approach. Rehman presents distinctive information regarding utilizing chortle as an IDS and utilizing Apache, MySQL, personal home page and ACID to investigate intrusion info.

Information Security and Cryptology -- ICISC 2013: 16th International Conference, Seoul, Korea, November 27-29, 2013, Revised Selected Papers

This e-book constitutes the completely refereed post-conference court cases of the sixteenth foreign convention on info safeguard and Cryptology, ICISC 2013, held in Seoul, Korea in November 2013. The 31 revised complete papers provided including 2 invited talks have been rigorously chosen from 126 submissions in the course of rounds of reviewing.

Additional info for How Secure Is Your Wireless Network? Safeguarding Your Wi-Fi LAN

Example text

In fact, using a USB adapter with an identical receive sensitivity to a PCMCIA card will often provide better results because you can position the adapter (and its "antenna") on the dashboard, instead of being tucked away inside your laptop next to the car door. 7). 7. 5 dBi Magnetic mount Omni Antenna. Antennae generally have a standard connector called an N connector. On the other hand, wireless cards 52 53 generally use a proprietary connector. To be able to adapt the proprietary connector to an N connector, you will need to get a cable called a pigtail, a short cable (usually a foot or less) that will let you connect an external antenna to your particular card.

11b. 11 operates in either an ad-hoc or infrastructure mode. Essentially, the difference is whether you use APs or if the clients communicate directly with each other. Infrastructure (BSS/ESS) networks use a central AP that clients connect to. In this mode clients talk with only with an AP, even if the destination is sitting right next to them. Ad-Hoc (IBSS) networks don't use APs. Finally, CSMA/CA techniques force access points to listen before talking. RTS/CTS and fragmentation are management techniques designed to help improve throughput in noisy environments.

It requires a certain degree of skill and tenacity to pull off the attack. In a low traffic environment, you'll also need lots of patience in order to collect the large volume of packets needed to successfully crack the key (or some additional skills to effectively mount a packet injection attack to trick the network into flooding traffic). The obvious answer to the WEP problem is to extend the IV space and don't reuse IVs. These issues (and more) are addressed in the WPA protocol (see Chapter 5).

Download PDF sample

Rated 4.68 of 5 – based on 49 votes