Risk Management of Wireless Networks

An anonymous reader writes "As wireless becomes a bigger part of our networks, those of us charged with maintaining them find ourselves also responsible for keeping drive-by script kiddies with a Pringles can out. BankInfoSecurity.com is running an excellent article on identifying and mitigating risks on wireless networks. The article was written by members of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) for banks, but it's applicable to any network environment and clearly lays out all the key steps to protecting wireless systems." There's nothing new here, really, but it's a good overview of issues to keep in mind when building a wireless net, as well as a good security plan starting point.

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Risk #1

[Anonymous Coward]

THOSE PESKY WARDRIVERS!!

Re:Reducing Risks of Wireless Networks

[Twid]

Please change the damned default SSID that was configured on your AP

A funny aside:

I was in Park City visiting friends over the holidays. The ISP for the friend that I was staying at went out of business, so I walked around the house looking for another wireless AP.

At one corner of the house, I find one, and the name is the first initial and last name of the person running it. It's not running with any security so I'm able to hop onto the net. So, I feed in his first initial and last name and "park city" into google (on his own wireless, even) and google gives me his home address and phone number.

I felt like calling him to thank him for the free wireless access. :)