Wireless Security Handbook

This text tackles wireless risk from many angles. It discusses the mitigation of wireless risk at the policy level, cost-effective ways of deploying wireless across large enterprises, and financial controls that reduce unforeseen risks in wireless projects. The handbook also offers the technical details of how you can design, build, and hack nearly all wireless security components.

This volume also helps advance your career by covering all of the objectives of the three widely recognized wireless certifications–those administered by Planet3 Wireless and Cisco Systems. The book focuses on the wireless local area networking technologies that help you meet these objectives, while also analyzing almost all other facets of mobile communications.

• Provides a well-rounded overview of wireless network security
• Describes wireless physical layer technologies and management frames
• Covers the wireless deployment process, access points, and antenna theory
• Reviews the various 802.11 LAN standards as well as those of Personal Area Network (PAN) 802.15
• Examines wide area wireless technologies and standards including cell phone, GPS, 802.16 Air Interface, and 802.20
• Discusses aspects of wireless LAN security such as authentication, SSID, WEP, 802.1x, RADIUS, and more
• Analyzes scanning, sniffing, hybrid, denial-of-service, cracking, and access point attacking tools

source: CPC Press