'Wi-Foo' Author On Trends In Wireless Security

prostoalex writes "Konstantin Gavrilenko from British security firm Arhont, co-author of Wi-Foo: Secrets of Wireless Hacking, recentlly reviewed on Slashdot, answered some of my questions on the current state of wireless security, market conditions for security experts and future trends, such as upcoming 802.1x and 802.11i standards."

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Best Quote

[Lord Grey]

Best quote from the interview:

... What's your assessment of the tools available for Windows family of OSs?

Frankly, we try to limit the amount of interaction with MS Windows OS family to "only when it is really necessary".

With any luck at all, the sun will become a relatively small, burnt cinder before that happens.

Re:Wireless Security?

[tupps]

I beleive that a wireless connection to a network should be treated exactly the same way as an internet connection.

Therefore if you are a business and want to give your users access to the entire internal network they should be going through a VPN, the same way an external employee sitting at home would.

At the end of the day the connections are the same, you don't know who might be connecting, and you can't trust anything you send/recieve on the network.