Wireless network security

Editor's Notes

1. Toon think!!!!!!!!!!!
2. Presented by Aurobindo Nayak
3. An overview of wireless networks and it’s security implications upon us. How and why to secure a wireless network.
4. What exactly is Wi-Fi and it’s implications upon us
5. 802.11g is in the final stages of development. The current draft (V5.0) is open for comments
6. Heavy cost bearings
7. Most deployments of Wireless utilize 802.11b
8. computers talk directly to each other
9. all traffic passes through a wireless access point
10. traffic passes through multiple wireless access points
11. Encryption increases privacy, but can be thwarted, either by software, or by gaining access to a PC configured with wireless and writing down the key.
12. Wireless does not add any additional threat in the way of viruses. Security measures such as firewalls, can reduce the risk.
13. The Gartner Group estimates that at least 20 percent of enterprises have rogue wireless LANs attached to their networks.
14. Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) and WEP2 . User authentication
15. Security doesn't stop at the perimeter of the company building.“
16. What's happening with wireless networks is that it's no more or less secure than anything else. It's just [that] with a wireless LAN [local area network] you need a new page in the rule book.
17. Anyone having any queries can pop the question.