Auditing and Protecting Wireless Networks

Technical Colloquium – Plenary Sessions

Wednesday — October 11th, 2006 11:20

This session provides exposure to existing and emerging tools and techniques that can be used to audit (or compromise) wireless networks. In addition, a demo of the capabilities of a WIDS/WIPS (Wireless Intrusion detection/Prevention System) will be given, with specific attention paid to the attacks discussed in class.

Students use their own laptops to boot from provided CDs with a customized Linux distribution. Wireless cards are required to perform many of the exercises. Cards based on the Prism 2/2.5 & Atheros chipsets (except USB adapaters) are recommended, and a limited number will be available for use. See the following links to check the chipset of your card:

<http://www.atheros.com>
<http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Wireless.html>
<http://hostap.epitest.fi>

Presenters

• Jason Falciola (IBM, US)