Wi‑Fi Quiz Challenge: Test Your Wi-Fi Knowledge
I’ve put together a series of Wi‑Fi quizzes to challenge what you actually know, whether you’re just getting started or have years of real-world experience under your belt. Whether you’re new to Wi‑Fi...
View ArticleWi-Fi 7 & Enhanced Open : Does MLO work?
Public Wi‑Fi is finally growing up. The era of wide‑open networks exposing your data is ending, thanks to mandatory security standards in the 6 GHz band. As we move into Wi‑Fi 7, we’re also...
View ArticleWant a Career in Wi-Fi? Start Here
I still feel a lot of people aren’t aware of the learning paths available for those who want to pursue a career in Wi-Fi. So in this post, I’m outlining some of those paths to help anyone considering...
View ArticleRockstar WLAN Analysis
I am excited to announce my recent digital course development for WiFi Training – Rockstar WLAN Analysis. It is developed for anyone to begin WiFi frame analysis & become a master of the subject....
View ArticleFast Roaming Lessons
To continue the development of digital-courses for WiFi Traning, I have developed my 2nd digital course named “Fast Roaming Lessons“. It is around 5hrs of video training that covers all grounds of...
View ArticleWPA3 Lessons
If you follow my recent blog posts, you are aware that I posted series of blog posts about new security enhancements like Enhanced Open, WPA3. I have to do one more post about WPA3-Enterprise to...
View ArticleWPA3-SAE Transition Mode
In this post we will look at WPA3-SAE Transition Mode implementation. Here is WiFi Alliance specification for WPA3-SAE Transition Mode requirement. • When WPA2-PSK and WPA3-SAE are configured on the...
View ArticleWPA3-SAE Mode
In this post, we will look at WiFi Alliance WPA3-SAE (also known as WPA3-Personal) to replace WPA2-Personal which is susceptible to offline dictionary attack. It is based on SAE – Simultaneous...
View ArticleEnhanced Open – Part 2
In this post we will look at “Enhanced Open – Transition Mode“. It is designed to increase adaptability of Enhanced Open network even all devices in a network not supporting it. As of today all client...
View ArticleEnhanced Open – Part 1
In this post we will look at WiFi Alliance (WFA) new certification called “Enhanced Open” for Wireless networks. WFA introduced it in June 2018 (Read public announcement from here) & meant to...
View ArticleWLC Client Debug – Part 3
Here is the final part of WLC client debug series. Yes it took very long time for me to publish it (many of you asked for it & I could not ignore your request) I have used Cisco 3702 AP (managed...
View ArticleStory of CWNE-153
After one month of wait, finally I got my CWNE result today & become CWNE#153. In this post I would like to summarize my CWNE journey as it may give some inspirations for future CWNEs. Even though...
View ArticleCWSP-SOHO 802.11 Security
Here is my notes on Chapter 6 – SOHO 802.11 Security of CWSP Official Study Guide. * WPA/WPA2-Personal is the most common security method used in SOHO environment. * WPA2-Personal use CCMP/AES where as...
View ArticleHow to Study for CWSP ?
In this post I am going to describe the way I am studying for CWSP (Certified Wireless Security Professional) certification. I used only self-study method by going through the CWSP Official Study Guide...
View ArticleCWSP – TKIP Encryption Method
Here is my notes about Chapter 3 (Encryption Ciphers & Methods) of CWSP Study Guide. Symmetric & Asymmetric Algorithms In symmetric algorithm, both the encrypting & decrypting parties share...
View ArticleCWSP – 802.11k AP Assisted Roaming
IEEE 802.11k-2008 defines Radio Resource Management (RRM) mechanism that enable 802.11k capable client’s radio to better understand the RF environment that they exist which will help clients to have...
View ArticleCWSP – PMK Caching & Preauthentication
PMK Caching & Preauthentication are two different methods defined in IEEE 802.11-2007 to allow fast secure roaming. PMK Caching: In PMK Caching AP & client station maintain PMKSA for a period...
View ArticleCWSP-802.11r Over-the-DS FT
In this post we will see how “Over-the-DS Fast BSS Transition” works. We will use the same topology as shown below. Originally Client is associated to LAP2 & then roam to LAP1.One thing you have to...
View ArticleCWSP-802.11r Over-the-Air FT
In this post we will see how 802.11r Over-the-Air Fast BSS Transition works. We will use same topology & base configuration used for the previous post. First I have to disable “Over-the-DS” feature...
View ArticleCWSP-802.11r FT Association
In this post we will see how 802.11r supported client first associate to an SSID configured for 802.11r FT support. I have used 3850 (running on IOS-XE 3.6) as my WLC. Not all wireless clients support...
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