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Wireless Intrusion Detection Systems Including Incident Response & Wireless Policy

Overview For some time wireless has had very poor, if any, security on a wide open medium. Along with improved encryption schemes, a new solution to help combat this problem is the Wireless Intrusion Detection System (WIDS). In the security and wireless world this has fast become a major part of securing a network. This paper will cover details of what a WIDS is and can do, along with incident response, and creating a wireless policy.

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Publisher	Infosecwriters.com	File Format	PDF
Date Published	March 2006	Downloads	130
Format	White Papers
Topics	Mobile - Wireless Communications, Network Security, Intrusion Detection Systems

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