The rapid evolution of the networking industry introduces new exciting challenges that need to be explored by the research community. The adoption of Internet as the global network infrastructure places the issue of quality of service among one of the hot topics nowadays: a huge diversity of applications with quite different service requirements must be supported over a basic core of protocols. Also, the open and uncontrolled nature of Internet enforces the need to guarantee secure transactions among users, thus placing security as another hot topic. Finally, the explosion of mobility and its integration as part of the global infrastructure are probably now the most challenging issues in the networking field.

Maximum Wireless Security is a practical handbook that reveals the techniques and tools crackers use to break into wireless networks, and that details the steps network administrators need to take to secure their systems. The authors provide information to satisfy the expert's hunger for in-depth information with actual source code, real-world case studies, and step-by-step configuration recipes. The book includes detailed, hands-on information that is currently unavailable in any printed text-information that has been gleaned from the authors' work with real wireless hackers ("war drivers"), wireless security developers, and leading security experts.

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Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780849319686
ISBN: 0849319684
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 672
Publication Date: July 16, 2004
Publisher: CRC Press
Sales Rank: 539004

Wireless technology offers businesses a world of strategic advantages — and a host of security problems. But thanks to McGraw-Hill’s WiFi Security, your company’s mission-critical data can be safeguarded, even against hackers intent on exploiting vulnerabilities in your business’s network brought on by wireless communications.

Written with insight by a leading wireless security expert, WiFi Security:
* Deals explicitly with wireless security for Windows 2000/XP, MAC OS X, Linux, Lindows OS, Palm OS, and PocketPC platforms
* Reviews security approaches for the different standards currently competing for the U. S. market
* Addresses data compromise, unauthorized access, and denial of service — all critical to WLAN users
* Covers the 802.11 IEEE standard with regard to security, performance, and throughput
* Discusses encryption and privacy through the Wireless Equivalent Privacy (WEP) protocol
* And much, much more!

As a result, you’ll gain a keen understanding of the gamut of WiFi security issues to help you enhance security and maintain privacy of your business’s proprietary information. So whether you’re a network administrator, security specialist, or a consultant, WiFi Security is the one book that can help you understand the complete range of issues surrounding this vital aspect of network protection.

From entertainment to telephony, emerging wireless systems will make possible a new generation of wireless multimedia applications. To satisfy users, network designers and developers must integrate end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) support throughout all their underlying networks: WANs, WLANs, WPANs, and "last-mile" WLL or satellite distribution systems. However, wireless network standards typically focus on signaling, leaving crucial QoS issues to implementers. Multimedia Wireless Networks is the first book to help network professionals systematically address QoS in today's most important wireless networks -- and tomorrow's.

• Why users' wireless multimedia performance requirements will require extensive QoS support
• The fundamentals of QoS -- and how they drive network design
• WLAN standards from the multimedia network designer's viewpoint: IEEE 802.11, HiperLAN, and HomeRF
• Wireless MANs: introducing the new 802.16 WirelessMAN standard
• Integrating QoS into IEEE 802.15 and Bluetooth wireless personal area networks
• QoS in current and emerging cellular and satellite networks