Overview of different wireless security protocols

Wireless security protocols have developed over time to move the protection and encryption of wireless transmission to the network and remove the bulk of this responsibility from users. Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) was initially introduced by the IEEE to create a baseline security standard for wireless networks. In the years following its release, it was often a target of hackers who reduced the time required to compromise WEP-encrypted networks to mere seconds. WEP has been considered obsolete for many years now, and it is rare to run into it during a security assessment. In response to the failure of WEP, Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) was created. WPA is an implementation of the IEEE 802.11i standard. Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) was introduced in WPA to overcome the drawbacks in WEP. Wi-Fi Protected Access II (WPA2) is a full implementation of the IEEE 802.11i standard that is more secure than both the earlier protocols. WPA2...