Lawan A. Mohammed

War Driving and WLAN Security Issues-Attacks, Security Design and Remedies

ABSTRACT Mobile computing is evolving at a rapid pace with 802.11 networks; the fuzzy boundaries make it easy for intruders to intercept the radio signals. War driving was performed along highways; the resulting packet analysis is explained to show how easy some security attacks can be. An elaboration is done on a host of wireless security attacks that leads to the discussion of secure wireless network design, along with some network security simulation. The paper concludes with a list of security recommendations.

On the Design of SOHO Networks

Small networks such as small office/ home office (SOHO) face the same threats as large enterprise networks. However, they also contend with the challenge of limited resources and budgets for IT expenditures. In such networks environment, the role of administering the system often falls on the business owner or on the default setup when the system was installed. In most cases, the owners do not usually have the time, resources or expertise to work on complex security problems. Similarly, most of the default setup use to have some loopholes which were not initially identified. This paper describes the primary security challenges facing SOHO networks today, and suggests simple easy to use security solutions to resolve these challenges.