Re: Wireless

["R. DuFresne" <dufresne () sysinfo com>]

There was recent discussion in the pen-test list about this, sparked by
folks looking for tools to do this entirely over the wired realm due to
geographic issues with large, spreadout organizations.  What becoame
profoundly to a head was that there are no tools that can do this totally
from the wired side, that folks need to scan their netwrks from the
wireless side to get a totaly coverage and 'see' all there might be to
see.  There are some new tools for the wireless admins to help monitor the
AP's and such they have in place.  I think one is offered by airdefense,
or that might be the product name.  What was interesting was their claim
to be able to detect passive wireless monitors, like those folks
wardriving with various WAP sniffers.  With MAC address filtering and
such, I suspect it would beable to detect a new laptop that tries to
connect to AP's installed and allowed, so as to allow the admin to
properly address the access of this new paice of equipment, if only to
shut down the built in adapter on those not requireing or needing wireless
access, or to bring it into the folks in a secured manner.

Thanks,

Ron DuFresne

On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Paul Robertson wrote:

> How are people starting to deal with hunting down and killing rogue 
> Wireless Access Points (WAPs)[1]?  It seems pretty easy in environments 
> where wireless isn't allowed at all, but is anyone dealing with the situation in 
> an environment where there are sanctioned wireless networks?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
> [1] I'm thinking a lot about the built-in laptop WAPs, people bringing in 
> 802.11b-enabled hubs, and only slightly about the cleaning folks hiding 
> one in the ceiling tiles.
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