Wireless Insecurity

Neal Wise 2004

This talk will address many issues in wireless security including:

• What is wireless, how does it work?
• What risks are associated with wireless and how can we secure it?
• How can we audit our own wireless security?
• How can we detect and prevent wireless attacks?
• What should we consider when planning a wireless service?

About Neal Wise

Prior to co-founding Assurance.com.au, Neal was the principal security consultant with Dimension Data Australia. Immigrating to Australia from the United States in 1998, Wise first worked for services company Synergy as a senior UNIX consultant. During this time Wise was an instructor for IBM and Tivoli education on massively parallel systems, enterprise storage, and enterprise systems and security management. Later Wise was a senior security consultant with ASX-listed security integrator eSec (now ASG).

Wise has been securing UNIX systems since 1990, and today his expertise is widely sought by education, industry and government. He delivers an annual IT security themed presentation to the Australian Federal Police College and Australian High-Tech Crime Centre in Canberra. And as a guest lecturer for the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology's Masters of Information Security program, Wise is helping to shape tomorrow's IT security professionals. Wise is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).