The need for wireless connectivity has increasingly become the order of the day because of the convenience it offers to the end users. As a result of this every individual, organizations, ministries and so have preference for it. To this end, in recent years, most devices come with wireless LAN [5] which enables them to see and get connected to an existing wireless network. The growing corporate appetite for Internet, intranet and wireless LAN services will drive the need for advanced information security services as technologies for circumventing network security systems continue to keep pace with the technologies designed to defend against them. Because of this ever increasing awareness and demand for wireless network, there is need to secure, safeguard this wireless network to ensure the authorized users are the ones gaining access to it. In this paper, we will deliberate on the challenges users encounter in securing a wireless network with wireless devices and the solutions.

 

Published In : IJCSN Journal Volume 3, Issue 4

Date of Publication : August 2014

Pages : 262 - 265

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Publication Link : A Review of Challenges and Solutions of Wireless Security

 

 

 

Achi Ifeanyi Isaiah : Department Of Computer Science, Our Saviour Institute Of Science And Technology

Agwu Chukwuemeka Odi : Department Of Computer Science, Ebonyi State University-Abakaliki

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wireless LAN

Wired Equivalent Privacy

Cryptography

Encryption

Biometrics

Network

Wireless Security

Algorithm

Authentication

VPNs

PKIs

All in all, the challenges and solutions of wireless security especially on mobile systems platform was discussed. Interestingly, it is a new area of research that is evolving as most corporate organization and individuals are embracing the wireless communication because of its’ latent qualities of ease of access, anytime, anywhere including not restricting the user to time. However, security in wireless systems still remains elusive. Nowadays users can get the complete wireless-security packages from vendors such as Cisco Systems and 3Com instead of piecing together various technologies to get the security they wanted. The impending release of Third Generation (3G) network technology, which would standardize TCP/IP on mobile systems, promises to permit strong, end-to-end SSL security, which functions only over IP networks. However, wireless security faces a number of hurdles, especially the challenge of adapting wireless technologies to work with the mobile world's more constrained resources. In spite of all the developments in fraud avoidance and detection, wireless fraud is expected to rise due to the rate at which wireless adoption in increasing. However, vendors and users alike hope that security will keep pace as other aspects of wireless technology continue to advance.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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