Summary

In this chapter, we have learned about various wireless standards and loopholes or misconfigurations that can lead to serious network hijacks. As, nowadays, almost all organizations implement production environments or corporate networks on wireless networks, it is very important to protect wireless perimeters from attackers. The most common way to compromise a wireless network is by cracking the password; once the attacker has guessed the password, there is no way to stop them from compromising the corporate network. Hence, the passphrase implemented should be strong. Another common attack that attackers use if they are not able to compromise the wireless network is to create an evil twin to let users connect to that evil twin's SSID. Therefore, to protect against such attacks, WIPS plays an important role, triggering a fake AP based on multiple parameters, such as BSSID. Implementing a secure wireless network is a bit of a tedious task, but not that difficult. Therefore...