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Wireless Security Architecture: Designing and Maintaining Secure Wireless for Enterprise
Reduce organizational cybersecurity risk and build comprehensive WiFi, private cellular, and IOT security solutions
Wireless Security Designing and Maintaining Secure Wireless for Enterprise offers readers an essential guide to planning, designing, and preserving secure wireless infrastructures. It is a blueprint to a resilient and compliant architecture that responds to regulatory requirements, reduces organizational risk, and conforms to industry best practices. This book emphasizes WiFi security, as well as guidance on private cellular and Internet of Things security.
Readers will discover how to move beyond isolated technical certifications and vendor training and put together a coherent network that responds to contemporary security risks. It offers up-to-date coverage—including data published for the first time—of new WPA3 security, Wi-Fi 6E, zero-trust frameworks, and other emerging trends. It also
Concrete strategies suitable for organizations of all sizes, from large government agencies to small public and private companies Effective technical resources and real-world sample architectures Explorations of the relationships between security, wireless, and network elements Practical planning templates, guides, and real-world case studies demonstrating application of the included conceptsPerfect for network, wireless, and enterprise security architects, Wireless Security Architecture belongs in the libraries of technical leaders in firms of all sizes and in any industry seeking to build a secure wireless network.
Wireless Security Designing and Maintaining Secure Wireless for Enterprise offers readers an essential guide to planning, designing, and preserving secure wireless infrastructures. It is a blueprint to a resilient and compliant architecture that responds to regulatory requirements, reduces organizational risk, and conforms to industry best practices. This book emphasizes WiFi security, as well as guidance on private cellular and Internet of Things security.
Readers will discover how to move beyond isolated technical certifications and vendor training and put together a coherent network that responds to contemporary security risks. It offers up-to-date coverage—including data published for the first time—of new WPA3 security, Wi-Fi 6E, zero-trust frameworks, and other emerging trends. It also
Concrete strategies suitable for organizations of all sizes, from large government agencies to small public and private companies Effective technical resources and real-world sample architectures Explorations of the relationships between security, wireless, and network elements Practical planning templates, guides, and real-world case studies demonstrating application of the included conceptsPerfect for network, wireless, and enterprise security architects, Wireless Security Architecture belongs in the libraries of technical leaders in firms of all sizes and in any industry seeking to build a secure wireless network.
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Published March 7, 2022
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June 29, 2022
The great thing about wireless networks is that they are so easy to set up and use. For the most part, they are plug and plug - you can set it and forget it. When I was doing PCI work, I often went to a client and would find their wireless access points (WAP) functioning well, but in a deep pile of dust.
From an operations perspective, plug-and-play is excellent. It also makes sending a WAP to a remote office without technical users and getting it running with minimal effort. But from a security perspective, the ease of installing wireless networks can introduce significant risk to the organization. And even with wireless security, many organizations think that all that is required is setting up WiFi Protected Access (WPA) for the wireless network. But wireless security is a lot more than that.
In Wireless Security Architecture: Designing and Maintaining Secure Wireless for Enterprise (Wiley), Jennifer Minella has written an incredibly detailed technical reference that provides the reader with pretty much everything they need to know about wireless security. This is an indispensable reference that will show you how much there is to know about wireless security.
By the time you get to page 100 in this nearly 600-page book, you realize that while plug and play wireless may work well for a tiny office, at the enterprise level, it is a security disaster. The book makes it eminently clear that the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that wireless security does not take much work.
The keyword in the title is architecture. Security without architecture is insecurity. As Dr. Ross Anderson of Cambridge University writes in the definitive text on the topic Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems, the use of effective design to build networks must be approached from an engineering perspective. And this encompasses a broad range of areas. Leave any of those areas out, and you have a network that transmits packets, albeit insecurely.
Minella is a stickler for details, and she shows that wireless security entails myriad details. And which, if done incorrectly, can affect the underlying security. This includes wireless hardening, protocol selection, key management, and much more.
While wireless might be synonymous with WiFi, there are many more wireless protocols than that, which the book details. If you use these, from Bluetooth, cellular networks, and more, you need to understand how they work and how to design security around them. There are countless attack vectors that the various flavors of wireless can introduce, and your network must be resilient enough to defend against them.
Finally, IoT devices are being deployed en masse. Enterprises need to understand them and design security around them. IoT devices use many non-traditional endpoints on a network (temperature sensors, vending machines, HVAC systems, and much more), introducing significant security problems if not effectively dealt with.
If you take wireless security seriously, this $50 book can save you much heartache. The infamous TJ Maxx breach of 2007 that affected over 100 million customers occurred in large part due to poor wireless security. That breach ultimately cost The TJX Companies hundreds of millions of dollars in losses. So yes, wireless security is a big deal. That is why those tasked with wireless security should have this book as required reading.
From an operations perspective, plug-and-play is excellent. It also makes sending a WAP to a remote office without technical users and getting it running with minimal effort. But from a security perspective, the ease of installing wireless networks can introduce significant risk to the organization. And even with wireless security, many organizations think that all that is required is setting up WiFi Protected Access (WPA) for the wireless network. But wireless security is a lot more than that.
In Wireless Security Architecture: Designing and Maintaining Secure Wireless for Enterprise (Wiley), Jennifer Minella has written an incredibly detailed technical reference that provides the reader with pretty much everything they need to know about wireless security. This is an indispensable reference that will show you how much there is to know about wireless security.
By the time you get to page 100 in this nearly 600-page book, you realize that while plug and play wireless may work well for a tiny office, at the enterprise level, it is a security disaster. The book makes it eminently clear that the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that wireless security does not take much work.
The keyword in the title is architecture. Security without architecture is insecurity. As Dr. Ross Anderson of Cambridge University writes in the definitive text on the topic Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems, the use of effective design to build networks must be approached from an engineering perspective. And this encompasses a broad range of areas. Leave any of those areas out, and you have a network that transmits packets, albeit insecurely.
Minella is a stickler for details, and she shows that wireless security entails myriad details. And which, if done incorrectly, can affect the underlying security. This includes wireless hardening, protocol selection, key management, and much more.
While wireless might be synonymous with WiFi, there are many more wireless protocols than that, which the book details. If you use these, from Bluetooth, cellular networks, and more, you need to understand how they work and how to design security around them. There are countless attack vectors that the various flavors of wireless can introduce, and your network must be resilient enough to defend against them.
Finally, IoT devices are being deployed en masse. Enterprises need to understand them and design security around them. IoT devices use many non-traditional endpoints on a network (temperature sensors, vending machines, HVAC systems, and much more), introducing significant security problems if not effectively dealt with.
If you take wireless security seriously, this $50 book can save you much heartache. The infamous TJ Maxx breach of 2007 that affected over 100 million customers occurred in large part due to poor wireless security. That breach ultimately cost The TJX Companies hundreds of millions of dollars in losses. So yes, wireless security is a big deal. That is why those tasked with wireless security should have this book as required reading.
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