Where wireless is a passion
Not every security problem is per se caused by a hacker. Sometime, unintentionally, your own employees are causing the issue—humans are still the weakest link. As I said it is unintentional because when you don’t have a policy written down the users are not aware of what is allowed and what is not allowed. Rogue …
Wi-Fi Alliance, the organisation that certifies products, but also helps with other programs like WPA and WPA2 to replace WEP, came with a new program called Wi-Fi Home Design. Wi-Fi has become more and more important in companies, but in SOHO as well. A co-worker of mine told me that when he needed to do …
We’ve talked a couple of times about programs like wireshark. With wireshark you are able to ‘listen’ to all the frames that are transmitting in the air. Another word for this is eavesdropping. This is not per se an attack since you can use wireshark for troubleshooting as well. Sadly, people can misuse wireshark for …
There are still some solutions in the 802.11-2012 that should not be used as security solution. We discussed SKA, WEP, and TKIP. In this blog, we talk about VPN protocols, MAC filtering, SSID segmentation, and SSID hiding. VPN VPN is still a secure solution, but it need to be used for working remotely from home …
In this blog, I will describe the legacy encryption mechanisms. Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) As stated in an earlier blog, SKA should not be used as an authentication mechanism. WEP is not secure at all and should not be used anymore. WEP can be used as authentication method in SKA, but also as encryption method …
The CWSP exam is based on 802.11-2012. There are some legacy security authentication and encryption that we should never use those days. Some of those legacy mechanisms are deprecated in 802.11-2016 that came out mid 2017. Legacy authentication Open System Authentication Open System Authentication (OSA) is not deprecated. Though it is not deprecated, it is …