My part of the report

INTRODUCTION:

Information security is playing an important part in most of the companies at the moment. For example, you can't do your online transactions without using security methods such as SSL (Secure Socket Layer). However, without security your data would be spread out to anonymous people. These people can exploit your data to use it for their own goods. For instance, they would be to use your information in illegal way to login to your bank account. In this project, we are presenting the Wi-Fi security. The purpose of this project is to illustrate how the security is involved in the Wi-Fi. For starters, Wi-Fi is a shortcut for the name "Wireless Fidelity" which means it uses the radio waves to connect to the internet on a high speed connection. Wireless is now used in many devices that we are using it in our life such as video games consoles (PS3, Xbox, Nintendo Wii), laptops, personal computers (PC's), PDA's that are using Palm OS and new generation of smart phones such as Nokia, Android phones and I Phone. As for the PC's, you can connect to the internet without a wire by using Wireless adapters (ALFA & Genius wireless adapters are good examples). Back to 1991, the wireless was first named as the WaveLAN (Wave Local Area Network). NCR and AT&T Corporations were was first inventors of 802.11 technologies. First, we will start to discuss how the Wi-Fi was first discovered by these to corporations. After that, we are going to talk about the evolution of the Wi-Fi security and how most of the companies are now demanding the security of their wireless networks. Finally, we will look for solutions to minimize the risks of the intruders in the Wi-Fi field and to look for some solution for lowering the Wi-Fi devices prices.

CONCLUSION:

All in all, we know now the first step for implementing the wireless network is by understanding the threats or the attack on the Wi-Fi network. One of these threats is known as DoS (Denial of Service attack). Even thought that users have the ability to access the internet and share their files and folders from home, college or café they are still in risk of being attacked by these intruders. We are now able to limit the impact of these attacks by using several security standards which we can combines three-party authentication with tunnels in the network. Moreover, securing opened wireless ports is very important to reduce the risk of hacking. We recommend you to keep your network safe and secured from intruders.