Personal Security Alarm

Wireless Security is called WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access). Wireless Security has in its specification addressed several goals, such as strong interoperable security as the replacement for Wired Equivalent Privacy and software upgradeability of existing Wireless Security certified products. It targets both Home or Small Office and Home Office and large enterprise users, and a requirement for its development was to be available immediately. Because Wireless Security is derived from Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers standardization efforts, it is also forward compatible with the upcoming standard. When properly installed, Wireless Security provides wireless Local Area Network users with a high level of assurance that their data will remain protected and that only authorized network users can access the network. The Wireless Security Alliance started interoperability certification testing on Wireless Security and mandates Wireless Security certification from all vendors shipping Wireless Local Area Network products.

To address the Wired Equivalent Privacy problems, Wireless Security has improved data encryption and user authentication, together with a dynamic per-user, per-session key exchange mechanism. Enhanced data encryption is achieved through the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol. Through these enhancements, Temporal Key Integrity Protocol addresses all Wired Equivalent Privacy encryption vulnerabilities known thus far. For the dynamic per-user, per-session key exchange, Wireless Security relies on Extensible Authentication Protocol methods and, depending on its use. Wireless Security has several flavors: enterprise, home, public, and mixed modes.