Real 802.11 Security

Real 802.11 Security
Author: Jon Edney
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2004
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780321136206

This book describes new approaches to wireless security enabled by the recent development of new core technologies for Wi-Fi/802.11. It shows how the new approaches work and how they should be applied for maximum effect. For system administrators, product designers, or advanced home users.

802.11 Security

802.11 Security
Author: Bruce Potter
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2002-12-17
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780596002909

Focusing on wireless LANs in general and 802.11-based networks in particular, Potter (VeriSign) and Fleck (Secure Software) outline strategies and implementations for deploying a secure wireless network. They explain how the 802.11 protocols work and how an attacker will attempt to exploit weak spots within a network, and suggest methods for locking down a wireless client machine and securely configuring a wireless access point. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide

802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide
Author: Matthew S. Gast
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Total Pages: 654
Release: 2005-04-25
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1449319521

As we all know by now, wireless networks offer many advantages over fixed (or wired) networks. Foremost on that list is mobility, since going wireless frees you from the tether of an Ethernet cable at a desk. But that's just the tip of the cable-free iceberg. Wireless networks are also more flexible, faster and easier for you to use, and more affordable to deploy and maintain.The de facto standard for wireless networking is the 802.11 protocol, which includes Wi-Fi (the wireless standard known as 802.11b) and its faster cousin, 802.11g. With easy-to-install 802.11 network hardware available everywhere you turn, the choice seems simple, and many people dive into wireless computing with less thought and planning than they'd give to a wired network. But it's wise to be familiar with both the capabilities and risks associated with the 802.11 protocols. And 802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition is the perfect place to start.This updated edition covers everything you'll ever need to know about wireless technology. Designed with the system administrator or serious home user in mind, it's a no-nonsense guide for setting up 802.11 on Windows and Linux. Among the wide range of topics covered are discussions on: deployment considerations network monitoring and performance tuning wireless security issues how to use and select access points network monitoring essentials wireless card configuration security issues unique to wireless networks With wireless technology, the advantages to its users are indeed plentiful. Companies no longer have to deal with the hassle and expense of wiring buildings, and households with several computers can avoid fights over who's online. And now, with 802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition, you can integrate wireless technology into your current infrastructure with the utmost confidence.

Cisco Wireless LAN Security

Cisco Wireless LAN Security
Author: Krishna Sankar
Publisher: Cisco Press
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2005
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781587051548

Secure a wireless Local Area Network with guidance from Cisco Systems experts. Showing how to use tools such as security checklists, design templates, and other resources to ensure WLAN security, this book illustrates security basics, standards, and vulnerabilities, and provides examples of architecture, design, and best practices.

802.11ac: A Survival Guide

802.11ac: A Survival Guide
Author: Matthew S. Gast
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2013-07-23
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1449357725

The next frontier for wireless LANs is 802.11ac, a standard that increases throughput beyond one gigabit per second. This concise guide provides in-depth information to help you plan for 802.11ac, with technical details on design, network operations, deployment, and monitoring. Author Matthew Gast—an industry expert who led the development of 802.11-2012 and security task groups at the Wi-Fi Alliance—explains how 802.11ac will not only increase the speed of your network, but its capacity as well. Whether you need to serve more clients with your current level of throughput, or serve your existing client load with higher throughput, 802.11ac is the solution. This book gets you started. Understand how the 802.11ac protocol works to improve the speed and capacity of a wireless LAN Explore how beamforming increases speed capacity by improving link margin, and lays the foundation for multi-user MIMO Learn how multi-user MIMO increases capacity by enabling an AP to send data to multiple clients simultaneously Plan when and how to upgrade your network to 802.11ac by evaluating client devices, applications, and network connections

Secure Roaming in 802.11 Networks

Secure Roaming in 802.11 Networks
Author: Paul Goransson
Publisher: Newnes
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2011-04-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0080548946

Secure Roaming in 802.11 Networks offers a comprehensive treatise on Wi-Fi 802.11 roaming by comparing/contrasting it to cellular roaming theory and techniques. The book explores the fundamental concepts, basic theory, and key principles of 802.11 networks with roaming capabilities. It helps ensure secure and constant connectivity of laptops, PDAs and other emerging mobile devices. Today, we increasingly expect to find public Wide Local Area Network (WLAN) 802.11 access in our airports, public spaces, and hotels, and we want to maintain our connections when we’re mobile and using 802.11 WLANs. However, 802.11 was not originally designed with roaming capabilities and can’t, in its "pure" form, support seamless roaming between different hotspots and other 802.11 access points. This book details the theory behind various 802.11 extensions to permit roaming and describes how these extensions can be successfully implemented in 802.11 WLANs. It reviews coverage of user authentication in 802.11, as well as roaming between 802.11 and other wireless technologies. It also discusses wireless technologies and application programming interfaces. This book will appeal to RF/wireless engineers and designers, computer/data network engineers, and graduate students. * Offers a comprehensive treatise on Wi-Fi 802.11 roaming by comparing/contrasting it to cellular roaming theory and techniques * Emerges as a "one stop" resource for design engineers charged with fulfilling the market need for seamless 802.11 device roaming capabilities * Builds upon the knowledge base of a professional audience without delving into long discussions of theory long since mastered

How Secure is Your Wireless Network?

How Secure is Your Wireless Network?
Author: Lee Barken
Publisher: Prentice Hall Professional
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2004
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780131402065

A guide to implementing a realistic, successful game plan for safe and secure wireless LANs, this volume has step-by-step guidelines and best practices for deploying secure wireless LANs in an enterprise or home environment and also within community networks.

Advances in Network Security and Applications

Advances in Network Security and Applications
Author: David C. Wyld
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 677
Release: 2011-06-30
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 364222539X

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Network Security and Applications held in Chennai, India, in July 2011. The 63 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers address all technical and practical aspects of security and its applications for wired and wireless networks and are organized in topical sections on network security and applications, ad hoc, sensor and ubiquitous computing, as well as peer-to-peer networks and trust management.

Computer Security and the Internet

Computer Security and the Internet
Author: Paul C. van Oorschot
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 446
Release: 2021-10-13
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3030834115

This book provides a concise yet comprehensive overview of computer and Internet security, suitable for a one-term introductory course for junior/senior undergrad or first-year graduate students. It is also suitable for self-study by anyone seeking a solid footing in security – including software developers and computing professionals, technical managers and government staff. An overriding focus is on brevity, without sacrificing breadth of core topics or technical detail within them. The aim is to enable a broad understanding in roughly 350 pages. Further prioritization is supported by designating as optional selected content within this. Fundamental academic concepts are reinforced by specifics and examples, and related to applied problems and real-world incidents. The first chapter provides a gentle overview and 20 design principles for security. The ten chapters that follow provide a framework for understanding computer and Internet security. They regularly refer back to the principles, with supporting examples. These principles are the conceptual counterparts of security-related error patterns that have been recurring in software and system designs for over 50 years. The book is “elementary” in that it assumes no background in security, but unlike “soft” high-level texts it does not avoid low-level details, instead it selectively dives into fine points for exemplary topics to concretely illustrate concepts and principles. The book is rigorous in the sense of being technically sound, but avoids both mathematical proofs and lengthy source-code examples that typically make books inaccessible to general audiences. Knowledge of elementary operating system and networking concepts is helpful, but review sections summarize the essential background. For graduate students, inline exercises and supplemental references provided in per-chapter endnotes provide a bridge to further topics and a springboard to the research literature; for those in industry and government, pointers are provided to helpful surveys and relevant standards, e.g., documents from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), and the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology.