Certified Wireless Security Professional

Description

A hands-on training course concentrating solely on WiFi security with an emphasis on the delegates learning the necessary knowledge and skills to pass the CWSP exam. The course progresses from simple authentication, encryption and key management onto in depth coverage of 802.X and EAP along with many other security solutions such as access control, intrusion prevention and secure roaming.

What will you learn

CWSP training course details

Technical network staff.
Technical security staff.

Certified Wireless Network Associate.

5 days

Standards, security basics, AAA, 802.11 security
history.
Hands on WLAN connectivity.

Authentication: Open system, shared key. WEP.
VPNs. MAC filters. SSID segmentation, SSID
cloaking.
Hands on Analysing 802.11 frame
exchanges, viewing hidden SSIDs.

Basics, AES, TKIP, CCMP, WPA, WPA2.
Hands on Decrypting 802.11 data frames.

802.1X: Supplicant, Authenticator, Authentication
server. Credentials. Legacy authentication. EAP,
Weak EAP protocols, Strong EAP protocols: EAP
-PEAP, EAP-TTLS, EAP-TLS, EAP-FAST.
Hands on Analysing 802.1X/EAP frames.

Robust Security Network.
Hands on
Authentication and key management.

WPA/WPA2 personal, Preshared Keys, WiFi
Protected Setup (WPS).
Hands on PSK
mapping.

DS, Autonomous APs, WLAN controllers, split
MAC, mesh, bridging, location based access
control. Resilience. Wireless network
management system. RADIUS/LDAP servers,
PKI, RBAC.
Hands on 802.1X/EAP
configuration. RADIUS configuration.

History, RSNA, OKC, Fast BSS transition,
802.11k.
Hands on Roaming.

Rogue devices, rogue prevention.
Eavesdropping, DOS attacks. Public access and
hotspots.
Hands on Backtrack.

Layer 1 audit, layer 2 audit, pen testing. WLAN
security auditing tools.

Wireless Intrusion Detection and Prevention
Systems. Device classification, WIDS/WIPS
analysis. Monitoring. 802.11w.
Hands on Laptop
spectrum analysers.

Role of VPNs in 802.11, remote access,
hotspots, captive portal.

General policy, functional policy,
recommendations.