Wireless Network Security

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• Provide consulting on wireless network LAN - WAN security solutions
• Assess and report on your existing wireless network security measures 
• Identify and secure all existing wireless network security threats
• Carryout installation and configuration to secure your wireless network

Secure Your Wireless Network

Secure your wireless network against potentially damaging attacks from unauthorized users and hackers is a top concern for any size business. However when these networks are properly protected, companies can confidently take advantage of the benefits they offer.

Wireless Network Security Specialists – LAN - WAN

Wireless LAN (WLAN) security specialists can work with your business to identify and secure all possible points of entry, providing a reliable and secure wireless network. For business already running a wireless network they can carryout a wireless network security audit to identify wireless vulnerabilities and carryout necessary steps to secure your wireless network. For business considering installing a wireless LAN solution they can provide professional advice as well as secure WLAN installation services.

How Secure is your Wireless Network?

Unfortunately, many wireless network deployments are insecure, leaving opportunities for the curious—or malicious hackers—to try to access confidential information. Wireless network hardware by default has no security measures enabled. Many businesses simply setup this wireless LAN equipment and turn it on, opening their network to hackers

Using wireless network LAN and WAN security specialists to secure your existing wireless network or advise on and securely deploy a new WLAN solution, ensures your business is protected from unauthorised users and hackers. Some of the wireless network security measures they can help you with will include;

Setting up secure access control and encryption – WPA or WPA2 are standards-based wireless network security certification from the Wi-Fi Alliance for enterprise, and small to medium business wireless LANs that provide mutual authentication to verify individual users and advanced encryption. WPA2 uses AES (the highest standard for encryption) making it much more difficult for hackers to find and exploit them. Both provide secure access control, strong data encryptions, and they protect the wireless network from passive and active attacks.

Creating a wireless network security policy - In some cases, you may have different security settings for different users, or groups of users, on your network. These security settings can be established by using a virtual LAN (VLAN) on the access point. For example, you can set up different wireless network security policies for distinct user groups within your company such as finance, legal, manufacturing, or human resources. User policies are also an important part of good wireless security practices The challenge is to devise a wireless LAN user policy that's simple enough that people will abide by it, but secure enough to protect the network.

Other wireless network security measures they will use may include; MAC address filtering so only specific wireless cards with specific MAC address can access your network; Hiding your service set identifier or SSID prevents the modem from transmitting your network name; Identifying any rouge access points which may have been setup by employees with out realising the security breach; ensuring VPN are used to connect all mobile users; the list could go on depending on the size and complexity of your wireless network.

Wireless LANs (WLANs) bring incredible productivity and new efficiencies to businesses of all sizes. Advances in WLAN features and capabilities allow organizations to offer the benefits of wireless to their employees without sacrificing security. Properly deployed, WLANs can be as secure as wired networks.

Use our IT directory to find your local wireless lan security specialists to help secure your existing wireless network, seek advise on setting up a wireless network, or supply wireless hardware and services to deploy your business wireless network securely.