3 Important Techniques for Securing a Wireless Network

Have you recently gone wireless? If you have aand works (loosely) like a password.Unfortunately,
wireless network at home or in the office, it ismost wireless access points transmit their SSIDs
critical to have it secured. Wireless networks areby default, which is pretty much like standing in
prone to attacks from outsiders - perhaps eventhe street and shouting your bank card PIN.
more so than with wired networks. This articleUnless you have equipment that requires the
shows how you can implement 3 techniques toaccess point to broadcast the SSID, turn this
secure a given wireless network.1. Disablefeature off. If you do leave it on, change the
Broadcast SSIDSSID to something other than the default.2. Turn
One of the key things to do is to secure aon WEP
wireless network is to disable broadcast SSID.Another thing to do is to turn on WEP, and use
WiFi WLANs identify themselves with a service128-bit keys.
set identifier (SSID), which names the network