By default, wireless security is nonexistent on access points and clients. The original 802.11 committee just didn’t imagine that wireless hosts would one day outnumber bounded media hosts, but that’s truly where we’re headed. Also, and unfortunately, just like with the IPv4 routed protocol, engineers and scientists didn’t add security standards that are robust enough to work in a corporate environment.
So we’re left with proprietary solution add-ons to aid us in our quest to create a secure wireless network. And no—I’m not just sitting here bashing the standards committees because the security problems we’re experiencing were also created by the U.S. government because of export issues with its own security standards. Our world is a complicated place, so it follows that our security solutions are going to be as well.
A good place to start is by discussing the standard basic security that was added into the original 802.11 standards and why those standards are way too flimsy and incomplete to enable us to create a secure wireless network relevant to today’s challenges.
So we’re left with proprietary solution add-ons to aid us in our quest to create a secure wireless network. And no—I’m not just sitting here bashing the standards committees because the security problems we’re experiencing were also created by the U.S. government because of export issues with its own security standards. Our world is a complicated place, so it follows that our security solutions are going to be as well.
A good place to start is by discussing the standard basic security that was added into the original 802.11 standards and why those standards are way too flimsy and incomplete to enable us to create a secure wireless network relevant to today’s challenges.
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