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Wireless Networking Security Tips

  • Set up Access Points (AP's) in the center of building if possible, or use a directional antenna to point the RF signals into the building and not into the street or parking lot

  • Connect AP's to the net using switches instead of hubs to minimize traffic sniffing threats

  • Have some form of authentication like Active Directory or RADIUS

  • Change the AP's important default settings from their factory configurations that are common knowledge; Subnet, Password, SSID, and WEP Key

  • Utilize MAC Access Lists to control WLAN access

  • Change all passwords, especially the administrator, on a regular basis

  • Separate your WLAN from your regular network, place it outside the firewall, or behind it's own firewall

  • Survey your site regularly for rouge AP's, as they can pop up anywhere and anytime

  • Disable DHCP and use static IP Assignment

  • Encrypt all WLAN traffic (e.g., VPN, TTSL, SSL, IPSEC, LEAP, and EAP)

  • Enable the highest WEP encryption possible

  • Disable Beacon and Broadcast SSID

  • Increase WLAN user and administrator awareness through consistent training of personnel that will be utilizing the WLAN


Wireless Network Security News
Ex-IT Worker Sues Over Firing in Disk Theft Case
Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:00:00 GMT
A onetime IT worker at a Portland, Ore., health care company who was fired after a data breach in late 2005 has filed suit against the organization, saying he was wrongfully terminated.

Offshore Worker Nabbed for Caterpillar Data Theft
Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:00:00 GMT
Caterpillar confirmed that a now-former employee at its design center in India was arrested for allegedly using a co-worker's user credentials to download confidential documents from a server in the U.S.

Hackers milk massive increase in browser plug-in bugs
Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:00:00 GMT
In the first six months of the year, the number of attacks aimed at browser plug-ins jumped 320% over the same period in 2006, according to Symantec.


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