Once a threat has been detected, the WIPS platform should kick into gear to enact powerful policies, including intelligent auto-disablement of APs matching a pre-defined criteria and generating different tiers of e-mail alarms based on the type of threat in your airspace.Ĭisco Meraki’s Air Marshal mode allows network administrators to meet these requirements and design an airtight network architecture that provides an industry-leading WIPS platform in order to completely protect the airspace from wireless attacks. Additionally, a WIPS system should be configurable with intuitive auto-containment policies to facilitate preemptive action against rogue devices.

To successfully protect an enterprise network, a Wireless Intrusion Prevention System (WIPS) should provide powerful wireless intrusion scanning capabilities, enabling detection and classification of different types of wireless threats, including rogue access points and wireless hackers. Wired network compromise: achieved by an unsuspecting employee or student plugging in a consumer-grade access point into the wired infrastructure and exposing the LAN to hackers. Network impersonation: achievable by purchasing any consumer-grade access point and copying an SSID, “tricking” clients into thinking that this SSID is available and snooping on their information transactions. Unfortunately, the tremendous growth in wireless has been accompanied with an increasingly widespread ability to obtain open-source hacking tools that can compromise a wireless network through impersonation of client devices and access points.Įxamples of Common Threats in a Modern WiFi Environment Data transmitted over wireless increasingly contains sensitive personal and financial data. Due to the widespread use of WiFi and variety of use cases (e.g., point-of-sale (POS) communications, corporate access, warehouse inventory, asset tracking, WiFi services for targeted advertising), the wealth of information transmitted across the wireless medium has skyrocketed. WiFi Internet access is critical for corporate communication in verticals including financial services, retail, and distributed enterprise. Secure WiFi access has become a critical component of enterprise networking. Wireless Security Threats in an Enterprise Environment

Configuring Meraki’s Air Marshal WIDS/WIPS platform.

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