A security solution for Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN)

Confidence in the use of the wireless local area network (WLAN) for internal, external or corporate business communications relies on effective security, and intruder detection processes. Regrettably, the triumph of the WLANpsilas design for corporate and government agencies as a ubiquitous open authentication environment is at risk of being tarnished by unscrupulous and vindictive attacks. Despite the risks WLAN installation is in rise and estimated over 85.9 millions nodes by the year 2008, representing a $6.5 billion market. The scope of this paper is to focus on the identification of security flaws in the current protocol model and to suggest a better implementation method that includes additional security as an add-on to improve corporate confidence in wireless LAN security.