Network Security
- Created by: adelesimpson
- Created on: 05-05-16 11:02
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- Network Security
- Wireless networks are less secure than cable ones
- The Importance of Security
- When you connect to your own wireless network you will probably see all of the others within range in a pop up
- Just as you see other people's network, they can see yours
- If the connection is not secure, they will be able to use your internet at your cost
- Ways of Securing Wireless Networks
- Changing the default admin password on the router
- Setting up a form of encryption
- Setting up Media Access Control (MAC) address filtering
- Hiding the router by stopping the router broadcasting its Service Set Identifier (SSID)
- Turning off the router when it is not in use
- Reducing transmitter power
- Encryption
- Scrambles data so that only computers with the right key can read it
- The commonest form of protection for wireless networks is WEP, but WPA-PSK and WPA2 are more secure and are more popular
- Each device in your network has a MAC address
- You can specify which addresses can connect to your wireless network
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