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Summary: Cisco wireless security at its best
Comment: Wireless and security go hand-in-hand. Enabling wireless without implementing security is a disservice to your client; it makes them totally vulnerable to intrusion.
This book gives you the technical capabilities and knowledge to understand what it takes to implement current (2004-2005) security techniques in your Cisco Aironet wireless environment. It includes detailed information, including sample IOS configurations, about Cisco wireless security and intrusion prevention. The book flows well from chapter to chapter and builds upon previous topics. The authors discuss Cisco SWAN (Structured Wireless Aware Networks) in depth and then offer several enterprise wireless deployment scenarios.
All-in-all, a very well-written technical manual that I highly recommend for WLAN engineers implementing Cisco Aironet solutions.
This book was written before the Airespace acquisition and does not cover that architecture.
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Summary: Wireless means radio, and anyone can listen
Comment: Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) have become quite commonplace. From McDonalds, to coffee shops, to airports people are opening up their notebooks and connecting to the world. With this growth these WLANs become targets for hackers with malicious intent. This book is intended for network engineers who design, configure, implement, and maintain secure WLANs.
With a WLAN it is importent to remember that Wireless means Radio. Radio means that you are transmitting data over the airways. And if you are transmitting, other people can be receiving. Usually of course the messages you are sending are received by the base station and sent on with no one caring. But there is no way to prevent physical access to signals being broadcast. The network administrator should recognize that there is no way to prevent someone from listening to your signals, and that such listening will be undetectable.
The basic 802.11 standard defines certain basic authentication and privacy methods, in fact there is a whole chapter in this book on just that subject. The security system being implemented will need to build on these basic rules by implementing various defensive systems. All of these are exhaustively discussed in this book in a clear and understandable manner.
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