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Wireless networks

Wireless networks

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Wireless networks

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- [Host] All right, we're moving on for our network protection and talking about protecting our wireless networks. So we're thinking about wireless LANs where you come into the office, you connect to your wifi network through, you know, your selection, and then you participate on the work network through your wireless device. Or you might be redirected to a separate wifi network where you can access the internet or other resources. Now, what we have to consider when we're talking about wireless networks, we have a couple of concerns. First of all, we're concerned about wireless sniffing, which basically means having a protocol analyzer capture wireless traffic. And it's much easier with wireless traffic because it's not confined to a cable, right? We're using the airwaves as medium. So with the wireless sniffer, I would be able to capture that traffic and analyze. Now the best defense there is going to be to use encryption. And so when we talk about encryption, we have multiple…

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