The innate nature of wireless communication devices to willingly connect to networks leaves it open to attacks from more passive ones like monitoring traffic to more malicious ones like cracking encrypted traffic and performing man-in-the-middle attacks. Physical security is also important for wireless equipment. There are reasons you do not usually see, or have physical access to wireless devices. For this discussion use the Ivy Tech library and Internet to find articles related to wireless security, both physically securing devices and logical countermeasures (configurations, settings, etc). Read the post requirements and post your thread covering these topic items:
- Vulnerabilities associated with 802.11X standards
- Name, define, and describe at least 2 different attacks done on wireless networks
- Discuss an article you read on how a non PC network device (USB drive, switch, ID cards, etc) was hacked and the outcome of that attack