Deploying Secure 802.11 Wireless Networks with Microsoft Windows

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 416 pages
• Published by: Microsoft Press September 10, 2003
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0735619395
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0735619395
• Book Dimensions: 9 x 7.2 x 1.3 inches
• Weighs: 1.8 pounds

Product Description
Get in-depth technical guidance to help maximize security for wireless networking infrastructures for computers running Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, or Windows 2000. The book thoroughly details how to implement IEEE 802.11b wireless LAN networking and

Reader Reviews
This book is a very good HOWTO book on deploying a secure wireless network. This book starts out with a description of the technologies used, like one of the previous reviewers has posted, it doesn't compare in contrast the two Windows authentication techniques available, but does a descent job describing the technology. You will also note that Microsoft Press didn't intend this book to be used for Evaluation or Skill Building which such comparison might be considered. Moving on to part II, it starts with a guide on best practices for the deployment of wireless access points, it then moves onto it's deployment guides. This is where this book sets itself apart from other HOWTO books that assume that you are deploying it in an large enterprise, or assume that you are going to deploy in a small office, this book gives you more choices. First two deployment scenarios are for large enterprise, including a case study on the Microsoft roll out of Wi-Fi, they also give you a simple small office deployment scenario with no servers. Finally at the very end of the book, there is a lab deployment scenario (ie an enterprise type deployment with the fewest servers possible). Also including are techniques to securing offer public, or semi-public wireless internet access on the same wireless network, without allowing them access to your network resources (other than the internet line and associated services). This book rounds up part III with chapters on trouble shooting wireless clients, access point and the server parts of your wireless network. Overall I recommend this book to anyone that needs to do an actual deployment of a wireless network, with Windows, or would like to learn the fundamentals of deploying a secure wireless network with a Windows infrastructure. I will be using this book as I deploy my companies wireless network in the coming months. If this book went in depth on comparing the authentication and encryption techniques I would have given it 5 stars since it would be the perfect book on deploying secure wireless network with Windows.