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A Sophisticated Solution for Revealing Attacks on Wireless LAN

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Trust and Privacy in Digital Business (TrustBus 2006)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNSC,volume 4083))

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The development of the WPA and IEEE 802.11i standards have vastly improved the security of common wireless LAN setups. However, many installations still use the broken WEP protocol or even run with no security settings enabled. Furthermore, several threats are only partially addressed by the new security standards, e.g. rogue access points or denial of service. Specialised wireless intrusion detection systems are promising means to protect wireless networks against these threats. They can further improve the reliability and security of these networks. In our contribution we present such a wireless IDS to reveal common attacks on wireless LAN. We describe the development and evaluation of our prototype solution that seamlessly integrates with approaches for traditional wired networks.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Institute for System Architecture, Technische Universität Dresden, D-01062, Dresden, Germany

    René Neumerkel & Stephan Groß

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Karlstad University, Universitetsgatan 2, 651 88, Karlstad, Sweden

    Simone Fischer-Hübner

  2. School of Computing, Communications and Electronics, Network Research Group, University of Plymouth, PL4 8AA, Plymouth, UK

    Stevel Furnell

  3. Laboratory of Information and Communication Systems Security Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean, GR-83200, Samos, Karlovassi, Greece

    Costas Lambrinoudakis

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Neumerkel, R., Groß, S. (2006). A Sophisticated Solution for Revealing Attacks on Wireless LAN. In: Fischer-Hübner, S., Furnell, S., Lambrinoudakis, C. (eds) Trust and Privacy in Digital Business. TrustBus 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4083. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11824633_23

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