Wireless Security and Monitoring for the Home Network
Marketing trends estimate that by the end of 2006, 21 million homes will have implemented a Local Area Network (LAN), and of those 21 million homes 65% will use wireless solutions. [1] The rapidly decreasing cost for wireless devices and the proliferation of wireless solutions provided by the major Internet Service Providers seems to clearly support these growth estimates.
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WLAN Technologies and Security Mechanisms
The central part of this paper is the detailed discussion of the wireless security mechanisms: WEP, 802.1x, and WPA. Rather than labeling either of them as weak, strong, secure, or vulnerable, it describes specific functions they perform by analyzing algorithms, protocols, and parameters involved in each mechanism.
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The security risks and ways to decrease vulnerabilities in a 802.11b wireless environment
This document explains topics relating to wireless networks. The main topics discussed include, what type of vulnerabilities exist today in 802.11 networks and ways that you can help prevent these vulnerabilities from happening. Wireless networks have not been around for many years. Federal Express has been using a type of wireless networks, common to the 802.11 networks used today, but the general public has recently just started to use wireless networking technology. Because of weak security that exists in wireless networks, companies such as Best Buy have decided to postpone the roll-out of wireless technology. The United States Government has done likewise and is suspending the use of wireless until a more universal, secure solution is available.
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Wireless Application Protocol (WAP): "What is it all about....How does it work"
This document is written as Introduction to the Wireless Application Protocol and as a high level view of where the industry is headed in respect to this particular protocol.
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Wireless Application Protocol 2.0 (WAP) Security
During recent years the Internet and wireless voice communications have undergone wide and rapid acceptance. The Internet has proved to be an easy and efficient way of delivering services to millions of wired users. Mobile phones are equally efficient at providing remote services. It was then only a question of time before these two technologies would begin to converge, to bring the convenience of the Internet to the wireless community.
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Wireless Computing - A Technological Breakthrough Laden with Risk?
As many institutions and corporations struggle to find better ways to interconnect local area networks (LANs) that they have in operation at various locations to form a wide area network (WAN), the solution they are looking towards is Wireless connectivity.
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Wireless is not the Problem
In this paper we will not be examining the WEP protocol. Much research has been done that proves WEP to be ineffective at achieving a reasonable measure of security; therefore it will not be discussed as an option. Instead this paper will explore the vulnerabilities in our current network infrastructures (wired and wireless), how these vulnerabilities would be mitigated in an ideal world, the barriers to achieving that ideal world, and finally the options available for minimizing the risks today.
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Wireless LAN Security Defense In Depth
This paper attempts to openly describe the technology of wireless LANs (mostly IEEE 802.11b), what are its standards and components, why it is less secure as compared to its wired counterpart and what can be done or applied in order to make wireless networks more secured from the technology and human perspective.
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Wireless LAN: Security Issues and Solutions
This paper begins by introducing the concept of WLAN. The introductory section gives brief information on the WLAN components and its architecture. In order to examine the WLAN security threats, this this paper will look at Denial of Service, Spoofing, and Eavesdropping.
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Wireless LANs and 802.1x
As wireless Local Area Networks (LANs) are being deployed and used in increasing numbers, opportunities for an attacker to access and penetrate these networks and their host network, a wired LAN, also increase.
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