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Threats to your wireless network

Threats to your wireless network

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Threats to your wireless network

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- This is the wireless access point for my little office here at Total Seminars. And we're not that big of an office, so we only need one AP. And this guy's passing out an SSID of private, say, and it works great. We've got WPA2 encryption on there, big long shared keys. So it's very, very hard to crack them. But what would happen if somebody came into the office, you know, that Bob over in sales, and he doesn't like how good of a signal he's getting over there, and he doesn't want to bother the IT department. Bob's not evil. Bob's just a little dumb. So Bob comes in and he gets one of these little home routers from his local computer store, and he takes this, and he plugs it in to my wired network. Now think about that for a minute. Now again, Bob's not evil. He's just dumb. But what you've just done is you've given people access to the network via an unauthorized access point. So we call this a rogue AP. So a rogue AP is nothing more than an unauthorized access point. So they happen…

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