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Wireless Security
Wireless networks are exploding in popularity. This boom is no big surprise, in light of how convenient they are to set up and use. You might think that only small companies and home users depend on wireless, but you'd be wrong. Major enterprises, have plumbed their corporate facilities with wireless access points (APs) so that corporate users can get seamless access to their networks from conference rooms, hallways, lunchrooms, and other formerly unwired locations. This flexibility and freedom can come at a cost: you have to buy wireless hardware, configure it properly, and set it up in physical locations that allow good signal coverage of the desired area. Apart from those mundane issues, though, wireless LANs have some potential security problems that need to be addressed. We will:
- Make sure that your desktop and server systems are as secure as you can make them. This protection raises the bar so that even if attackers get into your WLAN, they'll still have a hard time penetrating your computers
- Turn on WEP at the maximum strength for your AP and stations support. Make sure you have a strong WEP password, there, following the same rules for password strength that you'd use for your wired network
- Make sure that the network name (or SSID) for your wireless network isn't easily identifiable
- Turn off your AP's SSID broadcasting. This action essentially creates a closed network, so that new clients must enter the correct SSID before they can connect
These are some of the security measures we put in place to give you the freedom and convenience of wireless networking but keeping it as secure as possible in the meantime
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