The right encryption can help

Now that we've deployed our wireless environment, how do we make sure things are still secure? Well, once we've identified our weakness, we'll have strength, and that's when we get dangerous. It's so true because knowing is half the battle. Understanding where your weaknesses are helps to strengthen you.

WEP encryption

Believe it or not, WEP encryption is still heavily used. But, let's not even pretend here, WEP stands for Wired Equivalent Privacy, but it's not. That was the initial goal, and we'll discuss why they didn't achieve it when they implemented or had this ratified.

It was designed to protect us from digital eavesdropping and to help make sure our data was protected.

It also was there to help make sure we prevented anybody from getting on the network via Wi-Fi without being authorized to do so.

To prevent unauthorized access and eavesdropping, it uses a key. The key is the problem...