A Review of Challenges and Solutions of Wireless Security

Abstract- The need for wireless connectivity has increasingly become the order of the day because of the convenience it offers to the end users. As a result of this every individual, organizations, ministries and so have preference for it. To this end, in recent years, most devices come with wireless LAN [5] which enables them to see and get connected to an existing wireless network. The growing corporate appetite for Internet, intranet and wireless LAN services will drive the need for advanced information security services as technologies for circumventing network security systems continue to keep pace with the technologies designed to defend against them. Because of this ever increasing awareness and demand for wireless network, there is need to secure, safeguard this wireless network to ensure the authorized users are the ones gaining access to it. In this paper, we will deliberate on the challenges users encounter in securing a wireless network with wireless devices and the solutions.