The Wireless Threat

The use of wireless technology has become increasingly popular due to its flexibility and recent affordability over traditional methods to access hard-wired LANs. Analysts from all the leading research organizations agree that the market potential of wireless networking is huge and will continue to grow as the technology matures. The popularity of wireless networking is quickly spreading. Both individuals and organizations are finding benefits in their ease of installation and ease of use. As seen in multiple times throughout this book, technological advancement does not come without a price. This technology has security and privacy risks like all the others, however. Wireless networking has flaws from a security and privacy ...

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