Internet has become more of a need than a commodity. We need to be connected at all times and it has made it possible to be connected to billions of computers/devices around the world.
Internet is the center of all activities, from personal to professional to learning, at almost every step. It is the center for Automation of machines. It has made collection, sharing and analysis of data easier. Banking, billing, using GPS, shopping etc. the application of Internet are almost endless.
But our dependence on the Internet has left us Vulnerable to the nefarious activities of the hacker.
For a Wi-Fi connection there are always a number of people accessing it for various purposes and even a small error gives the hacker enough to hack and access all our personal and professional information has accessed the Wi-Fi. An unsecured Wi-Fi Connection can seriously sabotage one’s security, bank account, secure data and cause huge losses to a company etc.
The Wi-Fi can be prevented from unauthorized access. The first and foremost is having a strong password for the Wi-Fi.
The second most important thing is the SSID. The routers or the AP’s broadcasts its SSID, and that broadcast intimates of a network presence giving up the name.
So, turning of the SSID broadcasting is important. But just doing that doesn’t solve the problem.
We need to change the default name of the SSID. Dictionary based cracking depends on SSID(Service Set Identifier) . Default SSID for a router or AP makes it less secure and easier to crack.
Revealing the location of your Wi-Fi network in the SSID may also make your network more susceptible to attacks, most notably in densely populated areas like shared office buildings or office complexes.
NETPASS also provides with WPA-Enterprise, 802.1x support for radius.802.1X authentication is to utilize server verification on the client side. When server verification is enabled on the wireless client, the client won’t pass your Wi-Fi login credentials to the RADIUS server until it verifies it’s communicating with a genuine server. The exact server verification capabilities and requirements you can impose on the clients will vary, depending upon the device or OS of the client.