Wireless Security: Models, Threats, and Solutions

This comprehensive guide catalogues and explains the full range of the security challenges involved in wireless communications. Experts Randall K. Nichols and Panos C. Lekkas lay out the vulnerabilities, response options, and real-world costs connected with wireless platforms and applications. Read this book to develop the background and skills to: recognize new and established threats to wireless systems; close gaps that threaten privacy, profits, and customer loyalty; replace temporary, fragmented, and partial solutions with more robust and durable answers; prepare for the boom in m-business; weigh platforms against characteristic attacks and protections; apply clear guidelines for the best solutions now and going forward; and assess today's protocol options and compensate for documented shortcomings. It is a comprehensive guide to the states-of-the-art. It includes: encryption algorithms you can use now; end-to-end hardware solutions and field programmable gate arrays; speech cryptology; authentication strategies and security protocols for wireless systems; infosec and infowar experience; and adding satellites to your security mix.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 Why is Wireless Different? Chapter 2 Wireless Information Warfare Chapter 3 Telephone System Vulnerabilities Chapter 4 Satellite Communications Chapter 5 Cryptographic Security Chapter 6 Speech Cryptology Chapter 7 The Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) Chapter 8 Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) Chapter 9 Wireless Transport Layer Security (WTLS) Chapter 10 Bluetooth Chapter 11 Voice Over Internet Protocol Chapter 12 Hardware Perspectives for End-to-End Security (E2E) in Wireless Applications Chapter 13 Optimizing Wireless Security with FPGAs and ASICs Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Randall K. Nichols is President of COMSEC Solutions, LLC, a computer security countermeasures firm. He recently served as Technology Director of Crytography and Biometrics for the International Computer Security Association (ICSA). Nichols is considered an expert on cryptanalysis, INFOSEC countermeasures and classical cryptography. Panos C. Lekkas (Framingham MA) is a 20-year veteran of the communications chip industry, including a stint as the lead architect for IBM's PowerPC. Most recently, as founder and principal of TeleHubLink, he created a family of microchips for network security. Lekkas co-authored the bestselling book Wireless Security, contributing a unique section on hardware issues and solutions.

Review :
Review by David J. Biano pg.88 "highly detailed ...Wireless Security is a valuable reference for telecommunications professionals. It is hard to find information about the security of all these topics in one place, which makes this book a valuable addition to any security architect's book-shelf." Information Security Magazine 20020401 J.M. (Mike) McConnell, Vice Admiral, USN (Ret), Vice President, Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Inc. and former Director of the National Security Agency (NSA), 1992-1996, sets the stage for this timely book with a perceptive Foreword that states the problem in his first sentence: "The safeguarding of information traveling over wireless technology has quickly become one of the most important and contentious challenges facing today's technology innovators." With their book, Nichols and Lekkas pick up the gauntlet and provide a comprehensive guide for managers and policy makers involved with wireless communications. They explain the vulnerabilities, response options, and real-world costs associated with wireless platforms and applications, plus information needed to help develop the background and skills required to: Recognize new and established threats to wireless systems; Close gaps that threaten privacy, profits, and customer loyalty; Replace temporary, fragmented, and partial solutions with more robust and durable answers; Weigh platforms against characteristic attacks and protections; Apply clear guidelines for the best solutions now and going forward; Prepare for the boom in m-business; Assess today's protocol options and compensate for documented shortcomings. This book is also an encyclopedic guide to the state of the art with: Encryption algorithms you can use now, End-to-end hardware solutions and field programmable gate arrays, An extensive guide to speech cryptology, Authentication strategies and security protocols for wireless systems, Infosec and infowar experience, Adding satellites to your security mix and much more. The book is another blockbuster... The Cryptogram, Journal of the American Cryptogram Association 20020301