Title: The proactive intrusion prevention for Wireless Local Area Network

Authors: Wen-Chuan Hsieh, Chi-Chun Lo, Yi-Hsien Chiu

Addresses: Department of Information Management, ShuTe University No. 59 Hun Shan Rd., Hun Shan Village, Yen Chau, Kaohsiung County, Taiwan. ' Institute of Information Management, National ChiaoTung University 1001 Ta Hsueh Road, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan. ' Department of Information Management, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, 123 Section 3 University Road, Douliou, Yunlin 640, Taiwan

Abstract: IEEE 802.11b utilises WEP for data encryption to strengthen wireless security. However, WEP is proven to be insecure and its secret key can be cracked within only a short period of time. This research, in consideration of increasing need in WLAN security enhancements, attempts to devise a solution to prevent adversaries by developing a Wireless Intrusion Prevention System (WIPS) to detect and prevent War-driving and WEP attacks. An implementation of the WIPS is described in this paper as an illustration of the feasibility of the proposed architecture and results are presented.

Keywords: IEEE 802.11; wireless local area network; WLAN; wired equivalent privacy; WEP; wireless intrusion prevention system; WIPS; wireless honeypot; mobile communications; security.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMC.2006.008953

International Journal of Mobile Communications, 2006 Vol.4 No.4, pp.477 - 496

Published online: 06 Feb 2006 *

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