What you need for this book
To follow and recreate the practical exercises in this book, you will need two laptops with built in Wi-Fi cards, a USB wireless Wi-Fi adapter, Kali Linux, and some other hardware and software. We have detailed this in Chapter 1, Wireless Lab Setup.
As an alternative to the two laptop setup, you can also create a virtual machine housing Kali Linux and connect the card to it using the USB interface. This will help you get started with using this book much faster, but we would recommend that you use a dedicated machine running Kali Linux for actual assessments in the field.
From a prerequisite perspective, you should be aware of the basics of wireless networks. This includes having prior knowledge about the basics of the 802.11 protocol and client-access point communication. Though we will briefly touch upon some of this when we set up the lab, it is expected that you are already aware of these concepts.