CHAPTER 7
Securing Wireless LANs
It’s all about sound. It’s that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it’s digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear the gap between the ones and the zeros.
—Eddie Van Halen
Modern networks incorporate wireless networks using the 802.11 standard, Wi-Fi, enabling laptops, tablets, and smartphones to connect to the wired resources, such as file servers and printers. Wireless networks, however, represent a broad attack surface that, if not secured properly, provides excellent opportunities for attackers to access those same resources. Thus, a key component of network security is to lock down wireless networks sufficiently to ...
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