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Cisco® Network Professional's: Advanced Internetworking Guide
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Cisco® Network Professional's: Advanced Internetworking Guide

by Patrick J. Conlan
May 2009
Intermediate to advanced
882 pages
22h 55m
English
Sybex
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20.2. Wireless Security

Okay—so wireless security is not very reassuring. The number of hacks added to the fact that many of the security standards are easily overcome has not provided the best outlook for wireless security. The original 802.11 committee just didn't imagine that wireless hosts would one day outnumber bounded media hosts, but that's actually where we're headed now. Also unfortunately, just like with the IPv4 routed protocol, engineers and scientists didn't include security standards that are robust enough to work in a corporate environment. So, we're left with proprietary solution add-ons to aid us in our quest to create a secure wireless network. And no—I'm not sitting here bashing the standards committees, because the security ...

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