Cisco Wireless LAN Security

Introduction

The WLAN industry has all the thrills and chills of a well-written (and -directed) drama. WLAN is a disruptive technology that questions conventional wisdom in many ways. The domain is shaped by regulations and standards, vendors who sometimes try to compensate for inadequacies and idiosyncrasies of standards and regulations, an overheated technology adoption with an impatient user base for ever-increasing features, and most importantly, a security space that has some vulnerabilities, to say the very least.

This book covers the spectrum of WLAN security—the standards, the protocols, the specifications, and above all, deployment patterns and design guidelines. What makes this book unique is the combination of theory and practice, ...