Whenever you communicate over the Internet using a wireless connection, you want to ensure that your connection is private and protected. If your transmission is not secure, you are at risk of others intercepting your e-mails, examining your files and records, and using your network and connection to access the Internet and possibly use your access for illegal purposes and to distribute their own messages and communications.

Sounds pretty grim doesn't it?  Well it doesn't not have to be and you have some options to help protect and secure your wireless connection.

Security has been one of the biggest obstacles to the growth of wireless networking. The flawed Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) protocol was upgraded to shore up wireless security. WPA uses a dynamic encryption key as opposed to the static key used by WEP, and it also improves the user authentication process.

The new technology is known as Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) and it replaces Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) security algorithm that is part of the 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g standards. WEP was not widely adopted because Wi-Fi security experts showed that hackers equipped with off-the-shelf tools could easily break it. WPA supports user authentication by a dedicated server on a corporate network, while also being easy enough to work well on simple home and small-office networks.

What does this mean to you? Well companies are now working to develop easy to use software programs to help you secure your Wi-Fi connection. One in particular WiTopia offers an inexpensive service called SecureMyWiFi

Helps Protect you from all sorts of unpleasant things.

• Unauthorized use of your Internet connection
• Illegal (or at least unsavory) content being downloaded with your Internet address
• Viruses, Spyware, Malware
• Identity Theft
• Snooping/Downloading of your personal data
• Theft of proprietary business and customer information
• Use of your Internet Connection to launch bulk SPAM mailings
• Use of your Internet connection to launch Viruses, Worms, and other attacks.
• Email and IM being read
• Stolen Passwords
• Basically, lots of bad stuff
  

Computing the mass of a black hole is easier than breaking into your wireless network.

Through our multi-layered security methodology we’ll:

• Make your network “invisible” compared to neighboring networks.
• Ensure only devices you have authorized can even attempt access to your wireless network.
• Encrypt and change the “key” every few minutes, effectively “changing the locks” every time the “door” is used.
• Require users, of even an authorized device, to additionally authenticate to our external systems versus on a machine on the very network it is supposed to protect, which is akin to “hiding the key under the mat, “ a potentially disastrous idea.
• Encrypt all your data with algorithms so strong it would take millions (WPA-Enterprise) to trillions (WPA2-Enterprise) of years to crack the code. Seriously.
• Do a few other things we won’t mention here.

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