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Chapter 7. Security > How to Secure Wireless Networks
How to Secure Wireless Networks
Although Chapter 5 introduced wireless encryption, this section is a review while still adding more information about best practices to secure a wireless network.
The types of encryption standards that might be used to secure a wireless network are as follows:
• Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP): Secures data using an encryption key but is a weak encryption because the encryption key is static.
• Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA): Uses TKIP, which changes the encryption key periodically, but is also a weak encryption because it enables hackers to spoof data, or to falsify data on the network.
