Customer Reviews

Wi-Fi Security

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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).

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.

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.

The dated nature of the book is unavoidable without a reprint. However even in 2003 people knew better than to allow the errors this book contains. I found 23 different pages with serious errors. These errors could cause a novice to mis-configure their system or purchase inadequate hardware.

More disappointing than the author's performance is the editors' poor performance. McGraw-Hill should be embarrassed by their involvement in this piece of work. The author is quite fond of "due to the fact that" and other flagrant poor usage. Additionally a good technical review would have caught the poor organization and inconsistencies of the book.

This comprehensive tome on WiFi Security should be read by security and IT professionals; as well as technology hobbyists. It is comprehensive and yet can be read on many planes to expand the knowledge base of most all readers. Since this technology will be soon as ubiquitous as the George Foreman grill; I highly recommend this read.

I am really impressed with this book! WiFi has always been a difficult subject to master, especially with respect to security. Most of the books on this subject are very cryptic, however this book was very clearly understood by both myself and my colleagues. I highly recommend this book to ANYONE who is dealing with WiFi Security at any level.

WiFi is an important topic and I believe this book covers all the most important issues with excellent clarity and detail. I was very impressed with the depth of coverage and the way this book systematically covers each topic. At least with this book, I feel I have a better command of what needs to be done to improve our WiFi security at our company.