Wi-Fi Security [Paperback]

Stewart Miller (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0071410732 | ISBN-13: 978-0071410731 | Publication Date: January 22, 2003 | Edition: 1

Enhance security and maintain privacy of mission-critical data, even when going wireless. This book covers 802.11 security for Windows, Linux, Macs, Palms, and other PDAs.

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From the Back Cover

COMPLETE COVERAGE OF THE TECHNOLOGY THAT’S MAKING WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS VIRTUALLY IMMUNE TO HACKERS!

Wireless technology offers businesses a world of strategic advantages — and a host of security problems. But thanks to McGraw-Hill’s WiFi Security, your company’s mission-critical data can be safeguarded, even against hackers intent on exploiting vulnerabilities in your business’s network brought on by wireless communications.

Written with insight by a leading wireless security expert, WiFi Security:
* Deals explicitly with wireless security for Windows 2000/XP, MAC OS X, Linux, Lindows OS, Palm OS, and PocketPC platforms
* Reviews security approaches for the different standards currently competing for the U. S. market
* Addresses data compromise, unauthorized access, and denial of service — all critical to WLAN users
* Covers the 802.11 IEEE standard with regard to security, performance, and throughput
* Discusses encryption and privacy through the Wireless Equivalent Privacy (WEP) protocol
* And much, much more!

About the Author

Stewart S. Miller has more than a decade of highly specialized technical security and privacy expertise. He has published 11 books in the computer field and over 1000 feature articles. Miller is the country's leading IT security and efficiency management expert. Known best as an executive senior consultant, Stewart has created market analysis/research for hundreds of leading Fortune 500 companies. Stewart has worked with major organizations including IBM and Ernst & Young; he is very well-known for his expertise with complex enterprise systems including SAP, J.D. Edwards, Baan, and PeopleSoft. He has demonstrated his leadership and communication skills as the keynote lecturer for the IBM/SAP Partnership and literally wrote the book on SAP R/3 Certification. Mr. Miller is known to be “the” industry leader as an efficiency expert in both science and technology because he has collectively saved his clients and users of his materials hundreds of millions of dollars. He is also an IBM Certified IT Security Consultant, charter member of the National Association of Science Writers, and has certifications in every module of SAP and PeopleSoft.

Product Details

• Paperback: 309 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 1 edition (January 22, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071410732
• ISBN-13: 978-0071410731
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,022,368 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A book with lots of sales pitches, March 18, 2003

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Pi-Hui Chao "phchao" (Milpitas, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wi-Fi Security (Paperback)

The Preface of the book talks about the offering that the author's firm is providing. I believe the book is just another sales tool for the author's consulting firm. It's filled with a lot of information that are irrelevent of (Wi-Fi) security. It poses a lot of questions without giving you the specific answers or solutions. Just take a look at the paragraphs under title "Building a Private Wireless Infrastructure" (bottom of page 88) and see if you can get what you expect from the title. I think this book is only good for either junior high school kids who like to know more about IT buzz words or those high-level executives who love to pay big money for thousand of words (not works) from the so-called consultants (It's not a coincident that the author's firm is called Executive Information Service).

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Dated, not enough meat, May 26, 2005

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Daniel Luechtefeld (Greater Metropolitan Tacoma, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wi-Fi Security (Paperback)

This book served as the text for a graduate-level Wireless Network Security class. As such it was too elementary, and far too dated - one paragraph on 802.11i, none on WPA or WPA2. I got through the course thanks to Google, IEEE's website, and the Planet3 CWNA and CWSP books.

4.0 out of 5 stars Review, October 12, 2005

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M. Angeles - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wi-Fi Security (Paperback)

So far I am on Chapter 8. I have a home wireless network and wanted to learn more about the vulnerabilities of 802.1X. It seems like an easy read and doesn't go too technical but a good reference and a beginners "what you need to know" book. Overall it needs more beef on the technical end of this books from software to hardware.