Wireless Protection
Published: Jun 02 2005
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Once upon a time you locked up the office, set the intruder alarm went home knowing your business was protected. From midnight visits by those who wished to steal your business secrets, your know how and your customers.

Today you do the same, but with the technology advancements they may be lurking in the car park connecting to your computer network in the middle of the day. Completly lost in the multitude of sessions taking place. Helping themselves to all your knowledge, your customer data base, quote files, cost files, banking credentials, everything that is your business.

The advent of cheap wireless networking devices and mobile computing has made hacking, malicious intrusion all the more simple to accomplish. It can happen so easily. Making Wireless protection a necessary consideration as part of a WLAN setup.

To see how it all started just check out Wardriving on any internet search engine, this is a so called fun pastime that started in San Francisco. Wardrivers use software that was originally used to set up wireless networks to find wireless networks. The software is used along with encryption cracking software freely available from the internet.

You may think your network is safe because you have a no wireless access point's policy. But how do you police this policy from a covert wireless access point being installed for malicious use. Visitors with wireless enabled or Bluetooth enabled mobile computers, or the employee who installs his own wireless access point so he/she can work away from there desk.

You may think your wireless network (WLAN), is encrypted no way past that, sorry to disappoint, I found 50+ free to down load WLAN encryption cracking software products some of which claim to crack Wireless Equivalent Privacy (WEP), in seconds or less.

No you don't need to lead line the walls to stop the WLAN signals leaking out into the street. What you need to be able to do is to detect the presence of unknown wireless devices, then ping them off the network. This is a feasible option it can be done simply, to find out how good your network security is call in Securicall for a free consultation and security sweep, to find out how a wireless protection system can protect your business from intruders.

Last changed: Jun 02 2005 at 9:16 AM