Hackproofing Your Wireless Network - Softcover

Syngress; Ouellet, Eric; O'Farrell, Neal

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1928994598 ISBN 13: 9781928994596

Publisher: Syngress, 2002

Synopsis

The only way to stop a hacker is to think like one!

Wireless technology is a new and rapidly growing field of concentration for network engineers and administrators. Innovative technology is now making the communication between computers a cordless affair. Wireless devices and networks are vulnerable to additional security risks because of their presence in the mobile environment.

Hack Proofing Your Wireless Network is the only book written specifically for architects, engineers, and administrators responsible for securing their wireless networks. From making sense of the various acronyms (WAP, WEP, SSL, PKE, PKI, SSL, SSH, IPSEC) to the implementation of security policies, plans, and recovery protocols, this book will help users secure their wireless network before its security is compromised. The only way to stop a hacker is to think like one...this book details the multiple ways a hacker can attack a wireless network - and then provides users with the knowledge they need to prevent said attacks.

• Uses forensic-based analysis to give the reader an insight into the mind of a hacker
• With the growth of wireless networks architects, engineers and administrators will need this book
• Up to the minute Web based support at www.solutions@syngress.com

About this title

About the Author

Neal O’Farrell (Technical Editor) is founder and CEO of security training firm Hackademia Inc., where he oversees the development of more than 30 Web-based security training courses. Neal is a panel expert and regular columnist on SearchSecurity.com and was recently elected Chair of the first Cybercrime on Wall Street Conference. He has written more than one hundred articles and three books, appearing in publications as diverse as Business Week, Information Week, NetWorker, and Wireless Design News. With a career in information security that spans nearly two decades, Neal was recently described by the Institute for International Research as one of the world’s top 20 security experts. Neal got his first taste of wireless security in the mid-1980s when he was asked by the Irish government to develop a security system for the nation’s fledgling cellular network.

Eric Ouellet (CISSP) is a Senior Partner with Secure Systems Design Group, a network design and security consultancy based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He specializes in the implementation of networks and security infrastructures from both a design and a hands-on perspective. Eric has been responsible for designing some of the leading Public Key Infrastructure deployments currently in use and for devising operational policy and procedures to meet the Electronic Signature Act (E-Sign) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). He regularly speaks at leading security conferences and teaches networking and CISSP classes. He is currently working on two upcoming titles with Syngress Publishing, Building a Cisco Wireless LAN (ISBN: 1-928994-58-X) and Sniffer Network Optimization and Troubleshooting Handbook (ISBN: 1-931836-57-4).

Tony Bautts is a Senior Security Consultant with Astech Consulting. He currently provides security advice and architecture for clients in the San Francisco Bay area. His specialties include intrusion detection systems, firewall design and integration, post-intrusion forensics, bastion hosting, and secure infrastructure design. Tony’s security experience has led him to work with Fortune 500 companies in the United States as well as two years of security consulting in Japan.

Edition details

• Publisher: Syngress
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1928994598
• ISBN 13: 9781928994596
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512