CIT 46000
Wireless Security
Course Instructional Objectives
Wireless Security
Course Instructional Objectives
LAN wireless technologies and fundamentals
- List the advantages and disadvantages of a wireless local area network
- Describe the functions of the wireless LAN standards and regulatory agencies
- List wireless networking and security certifications
- Define information security and tell why it is important in wireless networks
- List the five types of IEEE WLANs
Industry and commercial use of wireless LAN technologies
- Explain the main IEEE 802.11 security protections
- Describe the vulnerabilities of IEEE 802.11 authentication
- Tell how address filtering is limited
- List the vulnerabilities of WEP
IEEE 802.11 and 802.11x standards
- Describe how IEEE 802.11a networks function and how they differ from 802.11 networks
- Outline how 802.11g enhances 802.11b networks
- Discuss new and future standards and how they improve 802.11 networks
- Explain how the use of wireless bridges and wireless switches expands the functionality and management of WLANs
- List basic and expanded security features and issues of IEEE 802.11 networks
How wireless LAN attacks occur and finding vulnerabilities
- Explain how security information can be gathered by social engineering, phishing, and other techniques
- Define wardriving
- List the hardware and software used for wardriving
- Explain how a packet sniffer can be used in a WLAN
- Describe the basic vulnerabilities of a WLAN
- Tell how malware and spyware can infect wireless networks
- List the vulnerabilities involved with implementing unsecured wireless LANs
- Explain the different types of wireless infrastructure attacks
802.1x/EAP solutions, Kerberos and RADIUS authentication
- Define wireless authentication
- List and describe the different types of authentication servers
- Explain the differences between various extended authentication protocols
- Describe IEEE 802.1i authentication and key management
- Describe the basic principles of security design
- Define network segmentation and tell how it can be used for WLANs
- List ways in which wireless hardware can be located securely
- Describe the steps that can be taken to protect wireless devices
- Explain how documents to be transmitted wirelessly can be encrypted
- List and describe the secure management interfaces for encryption
- Tell the features of a virtual private network and how they are used to secure wireless transmissions
PPTP, L2TP, and IPSec implemented in wireless LANs
- Explain how documents to be transmitted wirelessly can be encrypted
- List and describe the secure management interfaces for encryption
- Tell the features of a virtual private network and how they are used to secure wireless transmissions
802.11i & Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)
- Define wireless authentication
- List and describe the different types of authentication servers
- Explain the differences between various extended authentication protocols
- Describe IEEE 802.1i authentication and key management
- Explain the advantages of WPA and WPA2
- Explain the technologies that are part of the personal security model
- List the features of the transitional security model
- Define the enterprise security model
Encryption
- Explain how documents to be transmitted wirelessly can be encrypted
- List and describe the secure management interfaces for encryption
- Tell the features of a virtual private network and how they are used to secure wireless transmissions
Security Policies
- Define security policy
- List the elements of the security policy cycle
- Describe several types of wireless security policies
