Corporate wireless LAN security: threats and an effective security assessment framework for wireless information assurance

نویسندگان

  • Young B. Choi
  • Jeffrey Muller
  • Christopher V. Kopek
  • Jennifer M. Makarsky
چکیده

In this paper, we propose the necessary steps in implementing strong WLAN security for companies using our visual security assessment framework for wireless information assurance. Through real case studies on the organisations with various security measures and by showing complete execution paths of our framework, we suggest the importance of continual assessment of the WLAN for strong corporate security assurance using our Corporate WLAN Security Assessment Framework.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • IJMC

دوره 4  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2006