Wireless Network Security Threats, Vulnerabilities and Their Defences

Alex Roney Mathew; Aayad Al Hajj

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Wireless Network Security Threats, Vulnerabilities and Their Defences

Alex Roney Mathew, Aayad Al Hajj

Published in American Journal of Operations Management and Information Systems (Volume 2, Issue 1)

Received: 30 October 2016 Accepted: 22 November 2016 Published: 3 January 2017

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Abstract

Interchanges through PCs, laptops, tablets, and mobiles nowadays triggered the spread of remote systems administration to reach high levels throughout the globe. Security issues have risen considerably in Wi-Fi systems due to the unapproved clients and Wi-Fi programmers. Thus to eliminate conceivable security issues, WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) and WPA (Wireless Fidelity Protected Access) have been proposed in this paper. Both of these conventions are by large used to scramble the present information and data preventing unapproved clients and Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) programmers from decoding the information and hacking the Wi-Fi systems. Anybody within the range of the Wireless Fidelity system can connect to it with the help the Access Point (AP). In addition the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) system is contrasted with Wi-Fi Network for better execution in security.

Published in	American Journal of Operations Management and Information Systems (Volume 2, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajomis.20170201.11
Page(s)	1-4
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Wi-Fi, WEP, WPA, WLAN, AP, UMTS, WSA, ICE

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Alex Roney Mathew, Aayad Al Hajj. (2017). Wireless Network Security Threats, Vulnerabilities and Their Defences. American Journal of Operations Management and Information Systems, 2(1), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ajomis.20170201.11

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Alex Roney Mathew, Aayad Al Hajj. Wireless Network Security Threats, Vulnerabilities and Their Defences. Am J Oper Manag Inf Syst. 2017;2(1):1-4. doi: 10.11648/j.ajomis.20170201.11

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Alex Roney Mathew

IT Department, College of Applied Sciences, Sohar, Sultanate of Oman
Aayad Al Hajj

IT Department, College of Applied Sciences, Sohar, Sultanate of Oman

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Alex Roney Mathew, Aayad Al Hajj. Wireless Network Security Threats, Vulnerabilities and Their Defences. Am J Oper Manag Inf Syst. 2017;2(1):1-4. doi: 10.11648/j.ajomis.20170201.11

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