The proactive intrusion prevention for Wireless Local Area Network

  • Authors:

  • Wen-Chuan Hsieh;Chi-Chun Lo;Yi-Hsien Chiu

  • Affiliations:

  • 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

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Mobile Communications
  • Year:
  • 2006

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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.