Hacking Exposed Wireless_ Wireless Security Secrets & Solutions

"Hacking Exposed Wireless is built on the same template as the other excellent books in the Hacking Exposed series. I find the book very informative, and I'll keep it close, when I'll perform WiFi testing on the corporate network. The Attack and Countermeasure sections in the chapters of the Hacking Exposed series, are one of the things I really like about books. They give you a good overview about the risks involved - and how to test and mitigate these risks. The book consists of 11 chapters grouped in 3 sections: I) Overview, II) Hacking 802.11 Wireless Technologies and III) Hacking additional Wireless Technologies. 1. Section I - Overview. * Chapter 1 gives you the fundamentals to Wireless technology and describes the common security problems. * Chapter 2 is quite techie with some use of math for explaining how to calculate effect, antennas etc. 2. Section II - Hacking 802.11 Wireless Technologies. This section explains from the basics of Wireless security to the more advanced and well protected implementations of Wireless security. * Chapter 3 is a quite comprehensive guide to the history of the 802.11 protocol, and with that information, you are well equipped to go on to the following chapters. The description of the protocol is vital to understand how the vulnerabilities work. * Chapter 4 is the description of how to discover and map wireless networks. * Scanning and enumeration is the next step, and in Chapter 5 all the vital features are covered. * Attacking `WEP secured WiFi networks' is covered in chapter 6, and I must say, I found this information useful. Having already done some pentesting on WEP secured Access Points (AP), I found the explanations and examples very interesting, and I'm going to try out some of the techniques explained here, next time I have an AP to test. * WPA and WPA2 are normally considered to be pretty safe, if you choose the right password. But still the techniques described of how to deal with wireless enterprise setups, surprised me, and they should be taken in consid