Wireless Network Security
TechGuru
Wireless Network Security:
As we know that wireless
technology becomes very famous among all the aspects of different
technologies of computer networking of present era. Wireless networks
really provide the convenient and easy approach to communications
between different areas. In this technological World, there are many
networking technologies present in the field of computer networking for
the sake of benefit of humanity such as internet, Ethernet, DSL and
many more. Among these wired technologies, some wireless technologies
are also present for example broadband wireless networking, WiFi etc.
Wireless technologies basically designed to reduce the time and
different type of obstacles created by the cables.
Therefore, wireless networks have more convenient working as compared to other type of wired networking. Wireless network is the type of the computer networking in which computer is connected with the different telecommunication devices wirelessly. It is used for the sake of different purposes such as communication or data transmission etc. these all types of transmission that is related to the wireless networks are carried out with help of different types of waves which have micro wavelength in nature.
Types of Wireless networks
Wireless networks are categorized into three basic types that are almost used in every configuration of the networks wirelessly. These types are as follows
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- Wide Area Network (WAN)
- Local Area Network (LAN)
- Personal Area Network (PAN).
Wireless Network Security:
As there are different technologies that are
very sensitive to small viruses as well as the viruses of dangerous
types. For securing these kind of threats wireless networking designed a
special setup that is called as wireless network security. It is
defined as the protection of the security provided to different types
of networking technologies and also to the networking media from the
unspecified and unauthenticated access to the network and avoid the
destruction of the network is referred to as wireless network security.
As we know that there are different types of threats and spam come
from different types of browsers and corrupt the whole networking media
and slows down the working of the computer and the network. But the
wireless networking technology suggests different types of hardware and
the software ways to get rid of such kind o security problems.
Different Ways to Secure the Wireless Network:
As wireless technology develop[s different ways to get rid of the critical problems created by the wireless network security. Some important ways to securing your wireless networks from different types viruses Trojans and also some kind of dangerous spam are as follows
- Wireless Encryption Privacy (WEP)
- Limitations of Access Points
- Authentication
Wireless Encryption Privacy (WEP):
First method to secure the wireless network security
is the encryption of the data that has to be transmitted on the
wireless network for the transferring the information from one place to
another. Different types of encryption processes are used to secure
the data and the whole network form different types of destruction from
security problems such as hardware solutions, software solutions, in
some other solutions the whole mechanism of the access points would be
change etc. but to the complications in setting the encryption it fails
in walk of securing the wireless network.
Authentication:
Another important way to secure the network is the authentication.
It is the process in which the default password of the wireless
networking device is changed and assigns the new and the secret
password and the username again. If we cannot change the default
password any one can use your private data and information on the
network.
Limitation of Access Points:
Limitation of access points is the fast and the safer way to secure the whole network from different types of threats. In this process different types of securities take part specially MAC security plays a vital role in securing the complete wireless networking system