Wireless Network Defense (WND)

Learn to defend your network from wireless attack and penetration techniques.

Length: 3-day Workshop

In 1971, author C.P. Snow said, "Technology is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other."

Never has this been more true than with Wireless LAN technology. Wireless networks (WLANs) provide the performance we've come to expect from wired networks, but with the freedom that comes with mobility. Whether it's surfing the Internet from your porch swing, or accessing the corporate intranet from your conference room, mobility is addictive. New, productivity-enhancing applications for wireless emerge on an almost daily basis. And, not only are the users mobile, the network itself is mobile. Fast-growing organizations can deploy a wireless LAN in a new facility quickly and easily. And, when the need for a larger facility arises, the wireless network can moved and redeployed just as easilyly.

This great gift of mobility, comes with, as Snow put it, a stab in the back. Because the technology allows us to transmit through the air instead of wires, it also means that we've lost some control over where our transmissions go, and who has access to them. The tools required to monitor, or even intercept, our traffic are inexpensive and easy to use.

This course is designed to help you understand the vulnerabilities associated with wireless LAN technologies, the attack methods intended to exploit those vulnerabilities, and the countermeasures you can implement to defend your network against those attacks.

Even if wireless networks are banned in your organization, you need this course. The proliferation of low-cost, consumer level wireless LAN gear in the residential market has led inevitably to the installation of unauthorized Wireless Access Points in the workplace. These friendly rogue Access Points, however well-intentioned, open your network to attack.

This three-day interactive workshop will give you the tools you need! This fast-paced interactive program will offer you the information, resources and methodology you need to detect unauthorized Wireless Access Points, both friendly and hostile. For those deploying wireless LANs, this course will provide an understanding of the countermeasures available to defend your network.

You will learn to:

• Use passive and active scanning to detect rogue access points
• Detect closed wireless networks
• Monitor and capture wireless traffic
• Use an RF Spectrum Analyzer to detect interference
• Circumvent MAC access lists
• Use a virtual access point to do AP spoofing
• Deny access with RF jamming
• Use freeware tools to defeat Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)
• Select and position antennas to minimze leakage
• Maximize security potential of AP parameter settings
• Configure WiFi Protected Access (WPA) features
• Explore 802.1x options, including RADIUS
• Evaluate Intrusion Detection Systems

Recommended for:

• Those responsible for the security of IT systems within an organization, including but not limited to: IT Managers, Systems/Network Administrators, Auditors, Security Officers, Systems Analysts, IT Security Professionals & Data Protection representatives
• Those interested in understanding the vulnerabilities associated with wireless networks and how best to defend them
• IT Managers
• Network Administrators
• IT Security Professionals
• Auditors
• Systems Analysts
• Security Officers

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