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Wireless security

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Wireless security

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- [Presenter] Moving right along through our chapter on network security, we come up to wireless security. Now, everybody knows the benefits of having wireless devices, right? More portable, easy to use, I can connect very easily regardless of where I am. The problem is, anytime we are transmitting data across the airwaves, we've got to be very, very concerned about the security vulnerabilities that exist. Now, starting with, if we start talking about Wi-Fi within our network, we've got to think about just some basic considerations just as far as installation goes, and we're going to want to go through and create a site survey and use heat maps and kind of determine, are there areas where we're going to have interference? Are there certain types of material that the signal is not going to easily pass through? We have to think about channel overlaps. That's going to become important, and you probably talked about that in your Network+ class, but we have to make sure that our devices…

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