How To Secure Your Wireless Network

Posted on March 8, 2006 Bob Bowman

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Let’s face it, wireless rules.

Keeping Out The War Drivers

The ability to sit outside on the patio with the notebook and surf the internet while watching the babes walk by on their way to the beach is a techie’s dream come true. However, wireless security today is a big concern for many people. In the past we used to leave our wireless network completely open so anyone can use it to access the internet. If all these people did was access the net, we wouldn’t have a problem. But many “war drivers” open network for more devious purposes. This is why you absolutely must take security measures to lock down your wireless network.

The days of buying a wireless router and just hooking it up without turning on any of the security features are long gone. Only a fool would leave their network wide open. How tightly you want to lock down your wireless network depends on your level of paranoia. To help you out we have prepared a step by step how to on locking down your network from unwanted attacks. To serve you better we also rated the important of each security protocols on a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being the most important. Doing all the steps listed won’t make your wireless network hacker proof but it will greatly reduce the risk of a security breach. At the bottom of each page, we list a recommend router – these are routers that have all the security features listed in this article.

DigitalGrabber highlighted important points on how to secure your wireless network.