Wireless Security

Question 1

Wireless access point (WAP)

Answer 1

Wireless clients connectivity to a wired network.
All wireless routers are WAPs
Not all WAPs are wireless routers

Question 2

Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)

Answer 2

deprecated original security protocol has significant vulnerabilities

Question 3

Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)

Answer 3

Alternative to WEP with existing hardware

Question 4

Wi-Fi Protected Access II (WPA2)

Answer 4

WPA2 (also known as IEEE 802.11i) uses stronger cryptography than both WEP and WPA.
Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) is an older encryption protocol.
Counter Mode with Cipher Block Chaining Message Authentication Code Protocol
(CCMP)

Question 5

802.1x

Answer 5

Provides port-based authentication by

requiring users and devices to authenticate before granting them access to a network.