Question

We rely on wireless networks everyday and put much trust in the activities that we do on them. This makes it extremely important to protect them from threats and take measures to protect ourselves while working on them as well.

1. List at least 5 ways that you can secure a wireless network to make your activities on them less vulnerable to attack.

2. In your own words, write at least ten sentences supporting your list.

Answer 1

The 5 ways through which we can secure a wireless network to make activities less vulnerable to attack are as follows-

1) In most of the cases when anybody purchases a new wireless router, they never change the router name and the password. People keep the password as default like 1234, password or maybe their own name, so these type of password can be easily hacked by the hacker and they can easily make a guess and can hack it. So we should never keep the name or password as default, it should always be something difficult that cannot be guessed easily.

2) Secondly, we should encrypt the data in our system. Go to setting option and select WPA encryption option, if anyone is not having WPA encryption then they can select only WPA encryption, this will protect your system data from the hackers.

3) Use MAC filtering list, this is basically a list of authorised devices that can connect to the network and any device which is not on the list will not be able to connect even if it has the correct password to do so. If a person who don't add new devices on regular basis, then this option will be one the best way to protect your system.

4) Turn off WPS technology, this was a technology brought in for convenience as by only pressing a single button on the router and it can create a faster connection for a new device to join the network.

5) Changing the device SSID name. As with the default password, it is very easy for hackers to identify the SSID name and the can hack the network very easily. In the market there are many routers is available and the name on each router is almost same, so it is very easy for the hacker to hack it and use it.

ANSWER 2-

The above-mentioned list is sufficient for anyone who is using the wireless system as it covers almost all the things. Firstly the password should not easily because then it can be easily guessed by the hacker. Then we should also change the name of the SSID as if it is default only then it can easily be traced b the hackers and they can misuse it. Thirdly we should always use WPA encryption on the system as it protect the data of the system from being hacked. And by MAC filtering we can eliminate unwanted users as well, because with he help of this option we can open the network only to the connected devices and these ways the network remains safe. And lastly, we use select less range for the router network as if the network is accessible from a far distance then it is more prone to be hacked.