Wireless security techniques

Wireless networking allows users to connect their wireless, mobile devices to an access point to access the resources on a wired network and vice versa. There are many advantages to implementing a wireless network infrastructure within homes and organizations, with the most obvious benefit being that wireless networking reduces the number of physical cables needed to allow clients to access the network. It’s as simple as installing one or more access points so that they’re physically connected to a network switch and configuring the wireless settings with each access point to broadcast a Service Set Identifier (SSID) and network details.

While wireless networking supports mobility, allowing users to roam around the vicinity of a wireless network, many threats and wireless-based attacks are commonly used by hackers to compromise the security of an access point, which compromises the wireless network and its users. For instance, since an...