Wireless Security Profiles - NETGEAR WAC120 Reference Manual

- WEP and TKIP provide only legacy (slower) rates of operation. NETGEAR
recommends AES encryption so that you can use the 11n rates and speed.
For more information, see
• Connect stations manually. When you initiate a WPS connection, you provide a short
window of two minutes for a WPS-capable wireless client to join your network. Once the
connection is made, the intruder can learn your wireless security settings and rejoin your
network at a later time. For more information, see
Access Point
on page 26.
• Keep watch over your wireless network. Regularly monitor the wireless stations that
are allowed to connect to your access point and make sure that all of them are legitimate.
For more information, see
• Change the login password regularly. When you use the default login password, an
intruder can more easily figure out how to log in to the management interface of the
access point and change the settings. For more information, see
Password
on page 49.
Note: For additional wireless security, you can change the default network
key regularly. But whenever you change the network key, you must
reconnect all of the wireless devices. For more information, see

Wireless Security Profiles

• Turn off the wireless radio. During the hours when your offices are closed, turn off the
wireless radio. For more information, see
• Turn off the broadcast of the wireless network name (SSID). If you disable broadcast
of the SSID, only devices that use the correct SSID can connect. This nullifies the
wireless network discovery feature of some products such as Windows XP, but the data is
still fully exposed to a determined snoop using specialized test equipment like wireless
sniffers. For more information, see
• Restrict access based on MAC address. You can restrict access to only trusted
computers so that unknown computers cannot connect wirelessly to the access point.
MAC address filtering adds an obstacle against unwanted access to your network. For
more information, see
Wireless Security Profiles
Details of each wireless network are contained in a security profile. You can edit up to eight
security profiles for each SSID. Each security profile contains the following information:
• Profile name. This is the unique profile name. This value can be up to 32 alphanumeric
characters.
• SSID. This is the current SSID associated with this profile.
• Security. This is the current security standard, such as WPA-PSK, associated with the
profile.
802.11ac Wireless Access Point Model WAC120
Wireless Security Profiles
View Available Wireless Stations
on page 22.
Wireless Security Profiles
MAC Authentication
Initial Setup
22
on page 22.
Connect Stations to the Wireless
on page 57.
Wireless On-Off Schedule
on page 22.
on page 24.
Change the admin
on page 20.