Is Public Wi-Fi Access Safe? by Bob Rankin
Surfing Safely in Starbucks... A few months ago I met with a group of Internet professionals, all of us sporting laptops with wireless connections to the hotel's access point. On the second day of the conference, one of the attendees put up a slide on the overhead showing logins and passwords... Learn how to stay safe from this attack by reading this helpful article: http://www.aunty-spam.com/wifi-hotspot-evil-twins-mimic-wi-fi-hotspots-and-steal-your-data Securing Your Wireless HOME Network Do you have a wireless laptop and router at home?

Wireless is Great, but How Do You Make It SAFE? by Steve Freedman
It’s common nowadays to see people sitting in a park and computing, or at their local Starbucks, tapping away on their keyboards. At home, people are taking advantage of the freedom from cables and wires that a wireless network brings. But along with that freedom come dangers. ... All your wireless computers should use MAC Addressing MAC (Media Accessing Control NOT a MacIntosh computer) is an unique hardware address you should assign to your wireless computers so that your Wireless Access Point will only allow these specific computers to connect to your wireless network.

The Perils of Wireless Networking by Rick Parrott
In November 2003, Toronto police arrested a man in an upscale residential neighborhood. They noticed his car driving slowly the wrong way down a one-way street. Upon stopping the car, the police discovered the driver naked from the waist down. What was he doing? ... After answering these questions, you can proceed to securing the wireless network itself. ... Your wireless router and network interface card (NIC) are the parts that actually talk to each other. ... With a few precautions, you can secure your wireless connection and surf the World Wide Web from the comfort of your easy chair,...

Cisco Certifications Overview - Career Path Options by Eran Malloch
When considering a Cisco Certification , you need to understand how they structure their programmes, so that they match up with your career requirements (depending on where you are at right now). There are 3 levels of Cisco Certification, based on your increasing level of experience and... * Network Security : This path is directed toward network professionals who design and implement Cisco Secure networks. ... * Storage Networking : This path is for professionals who implement storage solutions over extended network infrastructure using multiple transport options.

Setting Up and Securing Your Wireless Network by Herman T. Lee
There are more and more individuals opting to work from home than ever before. The advantages to this are many including avoiding the morning and evening rush hours, being able to spend time with your kids and significant other, and doing everything on your own time. ... Though the pitfalls are many, the one that I will be focusing on in this article is that of setting up a secure wireless network for your home based business. ... Here are some general guidelines to follow in setting up your wireless network.

Wireless Network Encryption Standards by Eric Meyer
WEP – Is the first and lowest standard for wireless security. You will hear security experts say that WEP can be cracked in 5 minutes; this is true, only once you have sniffed enough network traffic for weak IV’s. Collecting enough wireless traffic will take at least a couple hours under... Remember you will have to monitor your wireless network because you might have more dropped packets with AES if your firmware is not up to date on your access point or wireless adapter. ... Keep your wireless network Simple and Secure.

Security: How to secure your Wi-Fi network? by Kenneth Wu
How to secure your Wi-Fi network? Most wireless router you bought might have an installation CD by vendor, and the CD will walked you through setting up security on your router in a step by step guide or wizard. Probably you will never have to or by the way need to use it. ... The step over here will need you to either use WPA or WPA-PSK, this will only appropriate if devices on your network supported it. ... Remember you'll need this SSID when you browse through available wireless networks from your client machines.

Wireless Router & Security: A Step-by-Step Guide by Brian Medini
Setting up a wireless router is easy. Essentially you turn your cable or DSL modem off and your wireless router on. Then, you connect the router to the modem with a cable, and turn the modem back on. You are more or less done. The wireless network wizard on your computer will pick up the router... Since your wireless network is now invisible, you will have to configure your computers to connect to your wireless network using the new name. ... Therefore, changing the network name only helps partially to secure your network.

CWNP - A Vendor-Independent Certification Path by Mohammed Alani
Planet3 Wireless is a creator and provider of IT training, courseware, and certification exams for wireless LAN technologies in the computer networking industry. Planet3 employs contract Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) from around the world to create and validate the content that is used to train... The CWSP® (Certified Wireless Security Professional) certification will advance your career by ensuring you have the skills to successfully secure wireless networks from hackers.CWSP is an advanced level wireless LAN certification for the CWNP Program.

Get Connected To Wi-Fi by Robert Thatcher
Wi-Fi, short for wireless fidelity refers to a set of wireless networking technologies more specifically referred to as any type of 802.11 network, 802.11b and 802.11a, dual band. The word Wi-Fi was built by an organization called the Wi-Fi Alliance. ... Wireless Fidelity is an appearing technology that will probably be as common as electric outlets and phone lines in a few years. ... The moment a device receives signal within the range of a Wi-Fi network, an Internet connection is produced without a chord and with the use of a Wi-Fi card that reads the signal.