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Book:   802.11 Security
Subject:   802.11 Security Review
Date:   2004-01-03 20:39:39
From:   Fox
Rating:  StarStarStarStarStar

Let me start by saying that the book offers several good ideas on security wireless networks and explaining the lower levels of the wifi protocols. Then the disussion bleeds into configuring several different OSes to use WEP and wireless networks. Then security comes. The several OSes that are demonstrated are similar in their configuration. However, many of the methods are non-trivial for those not technically minded.


Furthermore, the book becomes very repeditive explaining the same security measures over and over again.


Chapter 14, which covers higher level encryption, should have gone IN DEPTH with solutions such as IPsec and SSL. Further discussion of SSH tunnels in this chapter would have been welcome as well. Unfortunatly, this chapter comes AFTER examples of setting up network gateways where you would want to incorperate such protocols.


I can not say I would reccommend this book to any other competent system administrator. Had it gone in-depth with high level encryption schemes and deployment examples I would have considered it very valuable.

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