Name that Protocol
Introduced in 1999, this wireless protection standard was short lived due to the encryption being easily broken by a script
What is Wired Equivalent Protection or WEP?
The current strongest encryption standard, you could say it is advanced
What is AES?
In an enterprise, this consists of devices in different security zones with the objective of isolating public facing servers from internal network resources.
What is a DMZ Demilitarized Zone or Screened Subnet?
Workaround for earlier wireless protection standard, no longer considered secure
What is Wifi Protected Access or WPA?
The system used to share encryption keys; enables asymmetric encryption for public use
What is PKI/Public Key Infrastructure?
The current strongest wireless protection standard for home and small business users
What is WPA3-Personal/Wireless Protected Access 3 Personal?
Stands for Authentication, Authorization, and Accountability.
What is AAA?
This is the last instruction used by a Firewall when filtering a packet that does not meet any other rules when using whitelisting security methods
What is Implicit Deny?
A user reports that they aren't getting WiFi to part of their home, but the range of the Wireless is more than enough to cover the home, this is what you should find out about or ask if it's possible to change first.
What is location/position of wireless/router?
Dorothy sends Harvey an encrypted email and uses this key to encrypt the email
What is Harvey's public key?
Minimum required wireless protection protocol to use with Radius
What is WPA2-Enterprise?
This list controls what comes into and out of a network
What is an Access Control List/ACL?
This should be turned off unless absolutely needed on a wireless network; offered to people who are temporarily at your location
What is a Guest Network?
This is what you should do on site when first planning a wireless network, before buying any equipment.
What is a Site Survey?
Dorothy gets an encrypted email back from Harvey and uses this key to decrypt the email
What is Dorothy's private key?
Used to stabilize connections for time sensitive applications that do not require guaranteed delivery of data
What is QoS/Quality of Service?
This device is the applicant for user requests (supplicants) authenticating into an enterprise wireless network using RADIUS
What is an Access Point?
This protocol helps connect devices on a network to each other dynamically, should be disabled if not needed for your uses due to security concerns
What is UPnP/Universal Plug-n-Play?
Disabling this only adds protection against random users connecting to your WiFi, will not slow down even the newest script kiddie, leaving this as default will encourage attacks due to the assumption that everything else is has default settings.
What is Service Set Identifier or SSID?
Used when both senders agree on a single key before encrypting communications; much more resource heavy encryption method
What is Symmetric Encryption?
This specific protocol is used to make a point to point private connection over the internet
What is PPTP/Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol?
Part of the DNS service, these records map domain names to ipv4 and ipv6 ip addresses.
What is A and AAAA?
These can be viewed by clicking a lock icon in a web browser when connected to a secure server
What are certificates?
Using this will enable the firewall to inspect the content of data being sent over a network and let it block or allow based on that content
What is Content Filtering?
This is the standard used behind RADIUS to do the authentication on a wireless network.
What is 802.1x?