TYPES OF WIFI

• Wired Equivalent Privacy

  ❖ Approved in 1999

  ❖ Typically hard to configure

  ❖ Extremely easy to break

  ❖ Officially abandoned by the Wi-Fi Alliance in 2004
• Systems that rely on WEP should be upgraded or replaced as they are not safe. A weak WEP network can be compromised in under a minute
• Wi-Fi Protected Access

  ❖ Adopted in 2003

  ❖ WPA Personal uses a pre-shared key (PSK)

  ❖ WPA Enterprise uses an authentication server

  ❖ Built on top of WEP as WPA was rolled out to devices with WEP only support
• A weak WPA network can be compromised in just a few hours
• Wi-Fi Protected Access – Version 2 (WPA2)

  • Introduced in 2004

  • First WI-FI protocol to implement Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption

  • Major vulnerabilities occur when the attacker already has access to the network

  
  

  Theoretically, can take thousands of years to crack
• The AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) is a fast and secure form of encryption that keeps prying eyes away from our data