Secure your wireless LAN with these tools and techniques

When you deploy a wireless LAN, your new security perimeter becomes literally the air around you. Security threats go up considerably, wireless attackers or eavesdroppers can come from any direction, and anyone with a $50 card can potentially listen in on your network wire without ever setting foot on your premises. To properly secure your wireless network, you need to understand how wireless local area networks function and their basic weaknesses. Investigate wireless network security issues and how to address them in this chapter download from Open Source Security Tools: The Practical Guide to Security Applications. Chapter coverage includes:

• Wireless LAN terminology
• The 802.11 protocols
• The weaknesses of wireless LANs
• Wireless assessment equipment
• Using NetStumbler, StumbVerter, Kismet Wireless, and AirSnort

Title: Open Source Security Tools: The Practical Guide to Security Applications
Author: Tony Howlett
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Chapter 10: Wireless Tools
ISBN: 0-321-19443-8; Copyright 2005 Prentice Hall. All rights reserved.
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