Logan Shirling 3/19/15 ch. 7 end of chapter questions Essay Hello friend, This is logan I have been informed that you are considering installing a wireless Lan or WLan at the location of your small business. I also understand that you have some concerns about the security threats you may face and how you can reduce these threats. When installing a wireless Lan there are two main security risks that should be considered. These are Denial of service attacks also known as Dos attacks, and then there are evil twins. The first that I will cover is the Denial of service attacks. in a usual denial of service attack, the attacker or attackers overload an access point or cause other clients to
Logan Shirling3/19/15ch. 7 end of chapter questions
Essay
Hello friend,
This is logan I have been informed that you are considering
installing a wireless Lan or WLan at the location of your small
business. I also understand that you have some concerns about the
security threats you may face and how you can reduce these
threats.When installing a wireless Lan there are two main security
risks that should be considered. These are Denial of service
attacks also known as Dos attacks, and then there are evil
twins.The first that I will cover is the Denial of service attacks.
in a usual denial of service attack, the attacker or attackers
overload an access point or cause other clients to disassociate
from the access point. One means by which an attacker may decide to
do this is to flood an access point with traffic. this is usually
done with frames that request association or something else that
requires a relatively large amount of processing power. Denial of
service attacks are uncommon and are usually unsuccessful but you
still need to plan for them.The second type of security threat that
i will cover is the evil twin access points. an evil twin access
point is a notebook computer configured to act like a real access
point. this causes clients to associate with it and allow it to
intercept packets from the clients and read them before they are
sent along the line. this type of attack is also known as a man in
the middle attack. evil twin access points are very hard to avoid,
but the most common mean by getting around them are using vpns.
while using a vpn the evil twin access point is still present and
collects data, but is unable to read it because the data is
encrypted so that the real access point and the client can
understand it.In conclusion friend i advise you to be careful and
set up your wireless lan to be able to deal with evil twin access
points and denial of service attacks.
-best of luck, logan.perspective questions1. the most surprising
thing i learned this chapter was the incredible detail that is
needed to maintain and operate a wireless network.2. the most
difficult part of this chapter is by far the vocabulary.
