Mike Chapple is associate teaching professor of IT, analytics and operations at the University of Notre Dame. Securing a wireless network isn’t rocket science, yet organizations continue to make ...

Businesses can secure their wireless networks using Wi-Fi protected access and WPA2, which are wireless security protocols that encrypt data sent through your router. TKIP and AES encrypt and decrypt ...

It’s hard to stop hackers from gaining access to something as ethereal as an electronic signal. That’s why it has always been challenging to secure a wireless network. If yours isn’t secure, your ...

Our encrypted network, W-M_Wireless_Encrypted, provides an additional layer of protection. All traffic between your laptop and the wireless access point is scrambled, to protect against someone ...

Michael Murphy, director of information systems support services at Minneapolis-based Carlson Hotels Worldwide, parent company to more than 300 hotels in North America, would like to use stronger ...

Wi-Fi has evolved over the years, and so have the techniques for securing your wireless network. An Internet search could unearth information that’s outdated and no longer secure or relevant, or ...

I was recently at my parents place and realized that their wireless router is using WEP. A quick look at their router's setup pages shows that the router does support stronger encryption, so I plan on ...

What do I do about wireless security? You can take three really simple steps to dramatically increase the security of your wireless network. It is not foolproof wireless security, but it will keep you ...

In places like airports, potentially millions of travelers are at risk to these types of cyberattacks because of open networks. According to an assessment by Coronet in a CNBC article, you can put a ...

Two new encryption efforts have emerged from the firestorm of complaints over the easily compromised short and static keys used in 802.11’s original security ...

I recently bought a Proxim RangeLAN-DS 802.11b access point. It does not appear to support shared key authentication, although it does support 40-bit and 128-bit WEP for data encryption. So, whether ...

Mike Chapple is associate teaching professor of IT, analytics and operations at the University of Notre Dame. With cyberthreats becoming more prevalent, agencies need to ensure that the security ...