Konstantin V. Gavrilenko has over 12 years experience in IT and security and together with other two authors is a co-founder of Arhont Ltd. His writing draws primarily from his real-world knowledge and experience in security consultancy and infrastructure development for a vast range of clients. His main areas of interest lie in security in general and, more specifically, in firewalling, cryptography, VPNs, and IDS. Konstantin holds a first class BSc honors degree in Management Science from DeMontfort University and an MSc in Management from Lancaster University. He is open mind and enthusiastic for research, where his main areas of interest lie in security in general and more specifically in firewalling, cryptography, VPNs and IDS. Konstantin is proud to say that he is an active supporter of OpenSource solutions and ideology, public disclosure included.
While many paranoid system administrators and users still consider any WLAN
to be a gaping hole, these networks can be successfully secured against
snooping and unauthorized access with a little thought and effort.
Fortunately for us, Linux provides some flexibility when it comes to choosing
a wireless safeguard. While it's the ultimate wireless attacker's platform,
it's also the optimal system to rely on when deploying a hardened WLAN. This
is not surprising if you consider that network attack and defense are two
sides of the same coin.
This article describes the security issues facing the modern 802.11 networks
and the solutions available to mitigate these problems using the Linux
platform. Main Security ProblemsThe number one wireless security problem in
the real world is the ignorance of the users and system administrators. We
have wardriven for several years i... (more)
Konstantin V. Gavrilenko has over 12 years experience in IT and security and together with other two authors is a co-founder of Arhont Ltd. His writing draws primarily from his real-world knowledge and experience in security consultancy and infrastructure development for a vast range of clients. His main areas of interest lie in security in general and, more specifically, in firewalling, cryptography, VPNs, and IDS. Konstantin holds a first class BSc honors degree in Management Science from DeMontfort University and an MSc in Management from Lancaster University. He is open mind and enthusiastic for research, where his main areas of interest lie in security in general and more specifically in firewalling, cryptography, VPNs and IDS. Konstantin is proud to say that he is an active supporter of OpenSource solutions and ideology, public disclosure included.
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