Computer and Information Security Handbook, 4th Edition

Chapter 17: Wireless Network Security

Chunming Rong¹, Gansen Zhao², Liang Yan¹, Erdal Cayirci¹, and Hongbing Cheng^1     1University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway     ²Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Abstract

Wireless communications offer organizations and users many benefits such as portability and flexibility, increased productivity, and lower installation costs. Wireless technologies cover a broad range of differing capabilities oriented toward different uses and needs. This chapter classifies wireless network security threats into one of nine categories: Errors and omissions; fraud and theft committed by authorized or unauthorized users of the system; employee sabotage; loss of physical and infrastructure support; malicious hackers; ...