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The HSD Trendmonitor is designed to provide access to relevant content on various subjects in the safety and security domain, to identify relevant developments and to connect knowledge and organisations. The safety and security domain encompasses a vast number of subjects. Four relevant taxonomies (type of threat or opportunity, victim, source of threat and domain of application) have been constructed in order to visualize all of these subjects. The taxonomies and related category descriptions have been carefully composed according to other taxonomies, European and international standards and our own expertise.
In order to identify safety and security related trends, relevant reports and HSD news articles are continuously scanned, analysed and classified by hand according to the four taxonomies. This results in a wide array of observations, which we call ‘Trend Snippets’. Multiple Trend Snippets combined can provide insights into safety and security trends. The size of the circles shows the relative weight of the topic, the filters can be used to further select the most relevant content for you. If you have an addition, question or remark, drop us a line at info@securitydelta.nl.
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Wireless security is the prevention of unauthorized access or damage to computers or data using wireless networks, which include Wi-Fi networks (WLAN), NFC and ZigBee. The most common type is Wi-Fi security, which includes Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP, now deemed unsecure) and Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA, current standard WPA2 with 256-bit encryption).
Lacking wireless security in a local network, could expose personal computers and devices to a wide array of cyberattacks, from installing malware and spoofing websites to intercepting user credentials and system access. Furthermore, in an industrial setting, machine to machine communications can also be prone to exposure. Typical attacks include man-in-the-middle, MAC spoofing, rogue access points. Countermeasures against attacks on wireless networks include hiding the SSID (making the network invisible), RF or electromagnetic shielding, using a certificate-based system to authenticate the connecting device based on MAC-address (now deemed unsecure), use of security tokens (a form of two-factor authentication), static IP addressing, (end-to-end) encrypting communication, Wireless Intrusion Prevention Systems (WIPS) and Wireless Intrusion Detection Systems (WIDS).
Related keywords: router, modem, wireless signals, 80211X security, ad-hoc networks, peer-to-peer networks, Bluetooth network, network sniffing, Denial-of-Service attack (DoS), VPN, TKIP, EAP, RADIUS
Wireless security is the prevention of unauthorized access or damage to computers or data using wireless networks, which include Wi-Fi networks (WLAN), NFC and ZigBee. The most common type is Wi-Fi security, which includes Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP, now deemed unsecure) and Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA, current standard WPA2 with 256-bit encryption).
Lacking wireless security in a local network, could expose personal computers and devices to a wide array of cyberattacks, from installing malware and spoofing websites to intercepting user credentials and system access. Furthermore, in an industrial setting, machine to machine communications can also be prone to exposure. Typical attacks include man-in-the-middle, MAC spoofing, rogue access points. Countermeasures against attacks on wireless networks include hiding the SSID (making the network invisible), RF or electromagnetic shielding, using a certificate-based system to authenticate the connecting device based on MAC-address (now deemed unsecure), use of security tokens (a form of two-factor authentication), static IP addressing, (end-to-end) encrypting communication, Wireless Intrusion Prevention Systems (WIPS) and Wireless Intrusion Detection Systems (WIDS).
Related keywords: router, modem, wireless signals, 80211X security, ad-hoc networks, peer-to-peer networks, Bluetooth network, network sniffing, Denial-of-Service attack (DoS), VPN, TKIP, EAP, RADIUS