John Wiley & Sons - Securing Wireless
LAN's.




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Securing Wireless LAN's: A Practical Guide for
Network Managers, LAN Administrators and the Home Office
Userby Gilbert Held
ISBN: 0-470-85127-9,
272 Pages, October
2003

Wireless LAN's will enable small teams and
communities to communicate via their mobile devices without
cables. This new technology will facilitate communication in
small businesses/teams such as in hospitals, on construction
sites, ware-houses, etc. Held provides a comprehensive guide
to the implementation, planning and monitoring of all aspects
of wireless LAN security in small
offices/small to medium business (
SMB's).
In this book we
will examine how wireless LAN's
operate, with special attention focused upon the manner in
which security occurs under the IEEE 802.11
wireless LAN standard and its
extensions, and why the standard and its extensions are weak.
We will use this information to note many vulnerabilities
associated with the use of wireless
LAN's and the security risks that can occur
via an over-the-air transmission method. Because network
managers and LAN administrators, as
well as small business and home users of wireless
LAN's, need to know how to overcome the
security limitations of wireless LAN's,
several chapters in this book are devoted to security
enhancement techniques. One chapter is focused upon
vendor-specific solutions, while a second chapter examines the
use of existing and evolving standards that can be employed to
literally harden your wireless LAN

This ideal introduction to wireless
LAN technology: - Provides a broad overview
of all the different issues and practical guidance of how to
make wireless LAN's secure at home as
well as in small offices. - Explains how to monitor wireless
LAN's, configure different types of
wireless equipment. - Discusses which technologies are best
for different situations and require-ments. - Gives practical
hints and advice on how to implement them.



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