Diploma/Certificate » Course Structure

Wireless Security

Technical Option: 2 days

Course Overview:

This course provides an introduction to wireless technologies and their security. We will introduce the most common wireless networking technologies, discuss the security issues that they raise, explain how these issues have been addressed as part of the technology design phase, and discuss residual security issues. We will cover the following technologies:

  • Wireless LAN (the IEEE 802.11 family of standards, including WEP, WPA and WPA2)
  • IEEE 802.1X
  • GSM, UMTS and LTE
  • Bluetooth
  • WiMAX (IEEE 802.16)

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

  • Evaluate the security threats in wireless LANs and the strength of security countermeasures offered by current standards.
  • Understand how the IEEE 802.1X standards can be used to build an authentication infrastructure to support IEEE 802.11 networks.
  • Understand the design rationale for the security architecture in GSM and UMTS systems and be able to compare and evaluate the security in the two systems.
  • Have an appreciation of the operation and security properties of Bluetooth networks.
  • Be cognizant with the security features of IEEE 802.16 networks.