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802.11 standard A legacy set of wireless LAN standards developed by working group 11 of the IEEE LAN/MAN Standards Committee. 802.11 is known for its use of WEP and RC4.

802.11i standard This is one of the replacements for 802.11. It uses WPA and Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) as a replacement for RC4 encryption.

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Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) A policy that defines what employees, contractors, and third parties are authorized to do on the organization’s IT infrastructure and its assets. AUPs are common for access to IT resources, systems, applications, Internet access, email access, and so on.

Access Control List (ACL) A table or list stored by a router to control access to and from a network by helping the device determine ...

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