March 2021
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
14h 24m
English
Content preview from Wireless and Mobile Device Security, 2nd Edition
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CHAPTER SUMMARY
There are numerous open source and commercial tools to help administrators perform wireless audits. Discovery tools such as AirMagnet, Acrylic, or Xirrus Wi-Fi Inspector help verify what is actually in place (as opposed to what’s on a diagram), showing the network’s true status. The next stage is to check the network for known vulnerabilities by using vulnerability scanners such as Nessus. This software checks network clients against a national database of thousands of contemporary known OS and application vulnerabilities.
After vulnerabilities have been identified and removed, it’s time to bring out the big guns: pentesters. Pentesters are fully developed frameworks of tools that enable auditors not only to verify vulnerabilities ...