Securing Wireless Networks

Course details

As organizations provide greater mobility to their users, the risk of threats to security grows and the need for secure wireless networks becomes of paramount concern. In this course, you gain the skills to defend against attacks and maintain security within your wireless network. You learn to detect weakness in your existing network and design and configure a cost-effective security solution.

Course Objectives:

• Secure wireless networks against threats and attacks
• Implement the WPA2 and 802.11i security standards to protect your Wi-Fi network
• Encrypt wireless traffic using Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) or Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
• Leverage 802.1X and EAP authentication within an enterprise WLAN
• Build Wi-Fi auditing and accounting infrastructures
• Deploy wireless intrusion detection systems (WIDS)

Course Outlines:

You gain extensive hands-on experience securing a wireless network. Exercises include:

• Discovering and sniffing WLANs
• Decoding and analyzing 802.11 frames
• Cracking WEP and WPA2 PSK keys
• Configuring WPA2 on APs and clients
• Setting up 802.1X authentication
• Installing and presenting digital certificates to RADIUS server
• Comparing and contrasting EAP-TLS and PEAP
• Roaming in a secure environment
• Configuring a wireless IDS