Wireless Network Security Checklist, page 2

No-Brainer Security
The measures described in this section are the ones that everyone with a Wi-Fi network should take (that means you!):

• Change the SSID, or network name, from its default.

• Set the SSID not to broadcast. If your SSID is not broadcast, it will be harder for a nefarious evildoer to log on (or even know your Wi-Fi network is there).

• Implement Open System WEP (wired equivalent privacy) or WPA-PSK encryption and authentication.

Note: Neither Open System WEP nor WPA-PSK encryption should not be regarded as the final solution to security problems. With the right tools, both forms of encryption can be cracked in less than 15 minutes.

• Make sure all the computers on your network are running antivirus software, and that the virus definitions are updated weekly. This has more to do with general network protection (and common sense) than it does with Wi-Fi network security, but it is still very important.

• Change the default password for the administrative application for your access point.

Note: After you’ve changed the password on the access point, there may be no way to get it back short of doing a hard reset on the access point (which means all your settings will get lost). So keep the password in a safe place, and don’t lose it.

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