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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 One of the replacements for 802.11. 802.11i 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 Controls that monitor the flow of information between the subject and object. They ensure that only the operations permitted ...

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