on Sept 22nd, 2006

Have you set up a wireless network at office/home? How do you safeguard the network from squatters sneaking around? Have you taken the necessary measures to ensure privacy in your network? Read on to learn a few tips that could help you in safeguarding your wireless network.

Practicallynetworked.com lists the following methodologies to bring in the necessary security for your wireless network.

• Any wireless network can be held within the safe hands of its legitimate users by having a user password at the entry point of the wireless device.

• Automatic transmission of service set identifier has to be disabled in the wireless device that you are using.

• WPA method of encoding data can be implemented as a replacement to the WEP method of encryption in legacy systems.

• In case of the unavailability of WPA encoding and in case of incompatibility issues, wireless users can make use of the WEB encoding techniques.

• Restricting access to machines with specific MAC addresses within the network is highly essential to avoid external intrusions into the network.

• Remote maintenance/provisioning of the wireless network have to be disabled.
  The reduction in the transmission power of the wireless device would also curb the external access thereby enhancing the security of the wireless network.

Click here to learn more about wireless security.

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