How To Secure Your Wireless Network

Individuals have more elastic time due to wireless community. Thanks to the creation. Folks can work from home while caring for their children or doing home works. No more stress from traffic jam . Is this amazing?

Well, there is something that you need to realize. Working from home while using a wireless local area network (WLAN) may lead to theft of sensitive information and hacker or virus infiltration unless proper steps are taken. As WLANs send information over radio waves, someone with a receiver in your area could be picking up the transmission, and thus gaining access to your computer. They could load viruses on when you return to work.

Believe it or not! As much as 75 percent of WLAN users don’t have security features installed, while 20 percent are left completely open as default configurations are not secured, but designed to have their system up and running ASAP. It is advised that wireless router/access point setup be always done even though a wired client.

By follow these steps you are able to set up your safety:

1. Change default administrative password on wireless router/access point.

2. Enable WEP encryption on both the card and entry point. Change your WEP keys. If equipment doesn’t support at 128-bit WEP encryption, then look at replacing it. It reflects minimal amount of safety although there are safety issues with WEP, and it should be enabled.

3. Change the default SSID to a name. Setup your personal computer device to connect to the SSID.

4. Setup router/access point to not broadcast the SSID. The same SSID has to be set up on the client side. This attribute might not be available on all equipment.

5. Block pings or anonymous Internet requests. On each computer using network card, network connection properties must be configured to permit connection to Access Point Networks. Computer to Computer (peer to peer) Connection shouldn’t be allowed.

Enable MAC filtering. Association to wireless community for MAC addresses. Physical or mac addresses are available via your pc device network connection setup and they’re physically written on community cards. When integrating new wireless cards computer to your network must be registered using the router /access point. Network router needs to have firewall features enabled and demilitarized zone (DMZ) attribute disabled.

All computers need to have a properly configured firewall in addition to a hardware firewall. When new versions become available, It’s also wise to upgrade point firmware. Locating router/access point can also be useful so they cannot reset the router/access point to default preferences. You may attempt to find router/access point in the center of the building instead of near windows to limit signal coverage.

There is no assurance of a security of your wireless system, but following these tips may lessen your risk of exposing to attackers aiming at insecure networks.