WiFi is easy — as long as you have the wireless spectrum all to yourself. For most, people’s experience with WiFi is simply a matter of going to their local Best Buy, buying a consumer grade wireless router and plugging it in at home. If they live in a suburban area where the houses are
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Suddenly you find yourself longing for the old-days days when you had a small and efficient farm with a few pigs, chickens and cows.
The moral of this story: If you want to be happy, keep your farm simple!
These types of wireless security exploits make for good news because they get business managers all in a panic because they don’t understand what WPA2 and all wireless encryption methods are for. Wireless encryption is implemented so the wireless connection from your end device (laptop, iPad, etc) is AS secure as a wired connection. Up until now, the wireless part of a WPA2 connection was far MORE secure. Remember, once the data is dumped off onto a wired connection, the vast majority of the time wired traffic is not encrypted at the network level unless you are tunneling traffic. So with this new vulnerability, your internal users can possibly sniff and manipulate traffic…just like they can now on your wired connection. Is this new vulnerability a problem? Well, it’s not good, but it’s also no the end of the world.
This week is the start of Cisco’s largest IT and communications conference where network engineers from all over the world gather in Las Vegas (this year) to receive training from Cisco as well as to talk to other engineers about news, trends and technology.
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