Deploying secure 802.11 wireless networks with Microsoft Windows

Get in-depth technical guidance, Windows-specific best practices, and real-world troubleshooting tactics-direct from the Windows wireless product development team.

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 its related authentication technologies for a Windows environment. You'll learn how to deploy solutions for corporate networks, public networks, and home/small business networks that employ the latest standards in wireless security technologies including Extensible Authentication Protocol-Transport Layer Security (EAP-TLS), Protected EAP with Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol version 2 (PEAP-MS-CHAP v2) and Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA). The book also includes a detailed case study of wireless network deployment at Microsoft-sharing Windows-specific best practices from one of the largest wireless LAN deployments in the world.

Contents

• Wireless network technology and components
  • IEEE 802.11 overview
  • Wireless security
  • Windows wireless client support
  • RADIUS, IAS, and Active Directory
  • EAP
  • Certificates and public key infrastructure

• Wireless network deployment
  • Wireless network deployment
  • Intranet wireless deployment using EAP-TLS
  • Case study : The Microsoft wireless network
  • Intranet wireless deployment using PEAP-MS-CHAP- v2
  • Additional Intranet wireless deployment configurations
  • Secure wireless networks for the home and small business
  • RADIUS infrastructure for public place deployment

• Troubleshooting wireless networks
  • Troubleshooting the Windows wireless client
  • Troubleshooting the wireless AP
  • Troubleshooting the authentication infrastructure

• Appendixes
• Index