Re: [Fed-Talk] Airport Extreme Security When Devices on the LAN Won't Take WPA2
Re: [Fed-Talk] Airport Extreme Security When Devices on the LAN Won't Take WPA2
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Airport Extreme Security When Devices on the LAN Won't Take WPA2
- From: "Nichols, Jared - 1170 - MITLL" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 08:54:28 -0400
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] Airport Extreme Security When Devices on the LAN Won't Take WPA2
If the airport base station is on a network that can get only one place
(say, a VPN concentrator) that's probably a good way to go.
j
On 5/20/10 3:50 PM, "Joel Esler" <email@hidden> wrote:
> You can lock connections to the APE down by Mac Address, which is annoying at
> first, but that might help a bit.
>
> But, an attacker that knows what he is doing can crack your WEP, and clone one
> of the mac addresses, and connect to the APE. If you run some IPSEC
> encryption inside of the wireless connection, or perhaps connect to a VPN, you
> can secure it more that way.
>
> J
>
> On May 20, 2010, at 3:46 PM, Villano, Paul Mr CIV USA TRADOC wrote:
>
>> So I have been duly chastised, shamed and hornswoggled for using WEP
>> encryption and the Airport Extreme can use WPA2. However, the devices on the
>> LAN are older and only allow for WEP security. So how can I make the APE as
>> secure as possible? (By the way, now that I googled I've come to find out
>> the issue with the lost settings is fairly common with Belkin so it's much
>> less likely though never impossible I was hacked. Just a Belkin thing. And
>> it explains their defensiveness when I called tech support).
>
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