How to secure a wireless network: Part 1 of 5 - Enabling WPA on a wireless routerhttp://blogs.technet.com/steve_lamb/archive/2007/08/17/how-to-secure-a-wireless-network-part-1-enabling-wpa-on-a-wireless-router.aspxThis is the first part in a series of five blogcasts (video demonstrations showing you "how to") that look at how to secure a wireless network by configuring Wireless Protected Access (WPA) on both the Access Point (AP) and Vista/XP clients. Note: Theseen-GBCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)How to secure a wireless network: Part 2 of 5 - How to change the SSID http://blogs.technet.com/steve_lamb/archive/2007/08/17/how-to-secure-a-wireless-network-part-1-enabling-wpa-on-a-wireless-router.aspx#1771778Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:13:10 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:1771778Steve Lamb's Blog<p>This post follows on from How to secure a wireless network: Part 1 of 5 - Enabling WPA on a wireless</p> How to secure a wireless network: Part 3 of 5 - Reconfiguring a Vista client to connect to your WPA secured access point http://blogs.technet.com/steve_lamb/archive/2007/08/17/how-to-secure-a-wireless-network-part-1-enabling-wpa-on-a-wireless-router.aspx#1771834Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:25:17 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:1771834Steve Lamb's Blog<p>This post follows on from How to secure a wireless network: Part 1 of 5 - Enabling WPA on a wireless</p> How to secure a wireless network: Part 4 of 5 Connect using WPA for the first time on Windows Vistahttp://blogs.technet.com/steve_lamb/archive/2007/08/17/how-to-secure-a-wireless-network-part-1-enabling-wpa-on-a-wireless-router.aspx#1771868Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:39:02 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:1771868Steve Lamb's Blog<p>This post follows on from How to secure a wireless network: Part 1 of 5 - Enabling WPA on a wireless</p> How to secure a wireless network: Part 4 of 5 - Connecting using WPA for the first time on XPhttp://blogs.technet.com/steve_lamb/archive/2007/08/17/how-to-secure-a-wireless-network-part-1-enabling-wpa-on-a-wireless-router.aspx#1771893Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:45:37 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:1771893Steve Lamb's Blog<p>This post follows on from How to secure a wireless network: Part 1 of 5 - Enabling WPA on a wireless</p> How to secure a wireless network: Part 5 of 5 - How to view the advanced wireless interface on Windows Vistahttp://blogs.technet.com/steve_lamb/archive/2007/08/17/how-to-secure-a-wireless-network-part-1-enabling-wpa-on-a-wireless-router.aspx#1771920Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:52:05 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:1771920Steve Lamb's Blog<p>This post follows on from How to secure a wireless network: Part 1 of 5 - Enabling WPA on a wireless</p> re: How to secure a wireless network: Part 1 of 5 - Enabling WPA on a wireless routerhttp://blogs.technet.com/steve_lamb/archive/2007/08/17/how-to-secure-a-wireless-network-part-1-enabling-wpa-on-a-wireless-router.aspx#1772267Sat, 18 Aug 2007 00:49:07 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:1772267John A Thomson<P>There are other reasons for not disabling the SSID, especially in a roaming configuration where you have a wireless area provided by more than one AP. </P> <P>WPA-PSK isn't 100% secure either. Look up cowpatty! Ensure your passphrase contains some special characters, numbers and sufficient "mumbo-jumbo" that a dictionary attack would fail. </P> <P>MAC address filtering can be useful to prevent the opportunist, but any hacker can get around it in seconds - just like Steve said.</P> <P>If you're wireless kit supports WPA2-PSK then go for that as it uses AES, which is securer than TKIP used in WPA-PSK. More and more hardware is starting to support WPA2. Worth checking if there is a firmware update that makes it available as an option on your choosen router. </P> <P>Regards</P> <P>John</P>re: How to secure a wireless network: Part 1 of 5 - Enabling WPA on a wireless routerhttp://blogs.technet.com/steve_lamb/archive/2007/08/17/how-to-secure-a-wireless-network-part-1-enabling-wpa-on-a-wireless-router.aspx#1775690Sat, 18 Aug 2007 14:00:48 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:1775690Steve Lamb<p>Thanks John</p> Steve's "How to secure a wireless network" blogcast serieshttp://blogs.technet.com/steve_lamb/archive/2007/08/17/how-to-secure-a-wireless-network-part-1-enabling-wpa-on-a-wireless-router.aspx#1815806Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:00:17 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:1815806Curious George on TechNet and more...<p>I heard yesterday that Steve has done these and that they had gone down very well, so thought I would</p> Steve Lamb Releases 5-Part Series on Securing a Wireless Networkhttp://blogs.technet.com/steve_lamb/archive/2007/08/17/how-to-secure-a-wireless-network-part-1-enabling-wpa-on-a-wireless-router.aspx#1858273Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:01:29 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:1858273Realtime Community | Windows Server<p>Steve Lamb puts together an excellent five part series on securing a wireless network. He starts with the process of enabling WPA -- or Wireless Protected Access. Then goes into a great conversation on SSID's, enabling them, hiding them, and the limited</p> Blogcast showing how to secure a home wireless network via WPA - updated to point to the new blogcastshttp://blogs.technet.com/steve_lamb/archive/2007/08/17/how-to-secure-a-wireless-network-part-1-enabling-wpa-on-a-wireless-router.aspx#2804389Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:04:31 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:2804389Steve Lamb's Blog<p>This post has been replaced by a series of five blogcasts as quite a bit has changed since I wrote this</p> Let me guess what your wireless security settings are...http://blogs.technet.com/steve_lamb/archive/2007/08/17/how-to-secure-a-wireless-network-part-1-enabling-wpa-on-a-wireless-router.aspx#2908828Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:08:04 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:2908828Steve Lamb's Blog<p>I've just bought the cheapest wireless router I could find to share my hotel broadband connection with</p>