Re: Wireless Audit Reports

[Matthew Webster <awakenings () mindspring com>]

Michael,

      Thanks.  I guess, I could attach an Excel spreadsheet to the 
report listing the actual data I collected.  All peer networks were 
examined for signal strength.  I can say that anyone looking at the 
report will get cross-eyed as each section of each floor has between 20 
and 70 networks (the average around 50 networks) and it really is too 
much data for anyone to glance at and gain a sense of.  I guess I am 
trying to come up with a useful happy medium on what to report as there 
is so much data.  The risks you mention are exactly the reasons why we 
are doing the wireless audit.

Thanks,

Matt

Michael Scheidell wrote:

> You could report open networks, and laptops with peer connections.
>
> The risk an open network poses is a user hoping on and bypassing the
> corporate firewall, or worse, bridging the internal protected network on
> a nic card with the external, unprotected network.
>
> For laptops, or 'probes', someone on the outside cool put up a phony
> access point and allow a laptop to join it.
> Also, this usually indicates an access point at home.  If these users
> have access points at home, and use their corporate laptop to access it,
> there could be a third angle of attack and exposure to corporate data,
> either stored on the laptop, or maybe accessed via home to corporate lan
> (through the wireless access point at home)
>  

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