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Rogue Wireless Devices

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by don_andrews

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We are seeing a few rogue wireless devices pop up in our environment. We found them by complete accident. I am wondering what others are doing and if there are any tools to help me monitor my buildings for people bringing in Access Points and installing them without authorization.

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by joematus

You'll need to constantly walk around your place with a laptop and wireless detection software. Two free ones come to mind: netstumbler and kismet which are available at:

http://netstumbler.com/
http://www.kismetwireless.net/

I like netstumbler. But this may be a neverending battle. A better solution is to have a company policy against unauthorized access points using the security argument as justification. Or else you'll spend a lot of time looking for these rouge access points.

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