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December 22, 2020December 22, 2020

CWSP-206 Exam Feedback

I’d like to provide some tips and tricks to help one achieve the CWNP certification. The CWSP-206 Exam was revised in November 2019 from CWSP-205 with added topics on OWE/WPA3 and SAE and removing some older security concepts around pre-RSNA technologies like WEP. The exam in itself is not as hard compared to CWAP. I’d…

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November 30, 2020November 30, 2020

A Chunk of CWSP! (Work in Progress)

Topics covered below are not in a great deal but should get the important aspects required. The below content cover 45% of the exam syllabus for CWSP-206 which means around 25-27 questions approx.  Select and implement appropriate authentication solutions  WPA/WPA2-Personal (Pre-Shared Key)   WPA/WPA2-Enterprise  Three primary authentication components – Radius, IEEE 802.1X & EAP (Extensible Authentication…

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January 30, 2020February 4, 2020

802.11 Frame Exchanges – Security #CWAP7

802.11 Frame Exchanges section account for 25% of syllabus for CWAP-403 exam. Potentially around 15 questions out of 60 in the exam can be expected from this section. This blog post focuses on the “security” component of 802.11 Frame Exchange. I will be focusing on other sections in the subsequent posts in the next week…

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January 8, 2020February 17, 2020

Troubleshooting WLAN Issues – #MindMap CWAP#4

I am attempting to put a mind map of WLAN issues. I will look forward at expanding each one of the classifications in the revisions of this blog.

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October 16, 2019October 16, 2019

FortiFocus – Virtual IPs

This section emphasizes on the Virtual IPs section in the FortiGate. I’ve learnt something which is not obvious behaviour and one of those ‘remind me later’ moments that I’ve encountered. VIPs are essentially Destination Network Address Translation (DNAT) objects. For sessions matching the VIP, the destination address is translated. Let us go through some examples…

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April 1, 2019October 16, 2019

SSL Inspection : Forti Focus

Often times we come across website which use certificates that not match the certificate of the site. It presents us with a warning message and option to proceed with risks, below image is quite common. A number of applications and website that use SSL encryption correctly. In this case, the traffic goes through a Secure…

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February 7, 2019February 7, 2019

The SSL/TLS Handshake Process

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October 11, 2018January 29, 2020

CWNA, Authentication & Encryption Types

Different Authentication types Open PSK 802.1X Open Authentication – There is no authentication (Free for all). Device connects to wireless network without any issue.  Open Authentication might also redirect to a captive portal like at a Airport or Public Wireless places. There is a two way packet exchange. It is not the secure way to setup…

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October 8, 2018January 29, 2020

CWNA , IEEE 802.11!

Hi IEEE 802.11 Key Concepts Let’s get started with the IEEE 802.11 Journey synopsis. Standards are defined at physical and mac-sub layer(data-link). We are referring to different ways of transmitting data over the air. Also how our communication signal would deliver information. One of the original ones we’ve come across is FHSS (Frequency Hopping Spread…

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September 17, 2018January 29, 2020

CWNA : New Things Learnt today

Cinemas jamming mobile phone signals #cinemajammers The US’s National Association of Theater Owners wants the FCC’s permission to block mobile reception inside cinemas. To be honest I thought this already happened in some places… maybe I’d mentally linked it to office buildings with Faraday cage wall structures to prevent eavesdropping on wireless data transfer; I…

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