Conference: December 2 - 5, 2003 • Exhibits: December 3 - 5, 2003
San Jose McEnery Convention Center • San Jose, CA
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Pre-Conference:
December 2: 10 am - 5:15 pm Conference Days:
December 3: 9 am - 6 pm
December 4: 9 am - 5 pm
December 5: 9 am - 4 pm Expo Hall Hours:
December 3: 10 am - 7 pm
December 4: 10 am - 5 pm
December 5: 10 am - 2 pm Registration Hours:
December 2: 7 am - 5:30 pm
December 3: 7 am - 7 pm
December 4: 7:30 am - 5 pm
December 5: 7:30 am - 4 pm
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Introduction to Wireless LANs and the IEEE 802.11 Standard
Looking for a solid introduction to the applications and technologies of wireless LANs? This workshop will explore everything you need to know to take advantage of WLANs today while planning for the next steps in the evolution of WLAN systems. The session will cover:
WLAN basics: motivations, justifications, applications, and what users and network managers need to know about indoor radio communications
The IEEE 802.11 standard in detail, including both current specifications and major new additions now under development
A review of current products, including clients, access points, and software, along with a discussion of key features
Installing A Home WLAN
The network administrator in your office made it look easy to get your laptop on the wireless LAN. Sadly, we can't all be gurus -- but that doesn't mean we can't all have a WLAN at home. Getting the Wi-Fi card, router, and broadband setup in your house or apartment to play nice together is a simple matter of following the right steps and knowing what to look out for. We'll walk you through an actual SOHO WLAN setup; explain the technology behind DHCP, DMZ, ping, firewalls, and other perplexing terms; give you a basic understanding of how to secure things using WEP/WPA; and share the tips and tricks needed to optimize your data throughput and range.
Instructors: Eric Griffith, Managing Editor, Wi-Fi Planet Joseph Moran, Contributing Editor, Wi-Fi Planet
3:00pm - 3:15pm
Afternoon Break
3:15pm - 5:30pm
WLAN Security Assessment Science and Methods
WLAN technology has exploded, enabling significant business productivity improvements and new modes of connectivity in many types of venues, but there is widespread agreement that security issues compromise these gains. In addition to authentication and encryption technologies, there are methodologies that can be codified into a set of best practices for assessing the security status of a WLAN environment. These are divided into two main categories—the first to monitor conformance of authorized devices in the WLAN to the organization's security policies; the second to detect and identify unauthorized activity that may present a threat.
This workshop will focus on real world, practical assessment methods and practices that can be employed immediately to monitor any current or planned WLAN deployment:
Review of basic WLAN security technology
Review of major threat characteristic profiles, likelihoods, and potential worst-case impact, unauthorized device classifications
Tools and assessment practices—what to look for, how to unravel what is actually going on (is it a cat-burglar or just a cat?);
Best practices for monitoring / assessment to maintain a healthy, safe WLAN.
Instructor: Jesse Frankel, Director of Systems Engineering, AirMagnet
Wireless LAN Design Seminar
If you're a wired LAN administrator or support technician tasked with implementing an 802.11 network in your workplace, this is the workshop for you. Focusing on the fundamental, practical problems involved in equipping and setting up a WLAN that works 'out of the box,' this session gives you the information you need to get it right the first time. Topics include:
Instructor: Jesse Frankel, Director of Systems Engineering, AirMagnet
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Lunch Break
1:00pm - 3:00pm
WLAN Survey and Planning Techniques: Past, present, and future
This workshop looks at changing techniques for deploying wireless networks and how the new generation of RF planning tools and next-generation WLAN solutions are reducing the pain and cost of deploying wireless networks.
The first portion of the tutorial includes demonstration of a traditional full site survey of a multi-AP installation designed for maximum coverage. A second portion will be spent doing hands-on work with the latest RF prediction and site survey tools available, providing attendees with direct experience analyzing coverage areas of access points and user performance metrics. The tutorial will explore the features built into the next generation of WLAN that are reducing the time and cost of the planning and deployment phases. The result of the tutorial will be an actual RF analysis and design of a wireless network, determining how many APs are needed, and the optimal location of APs and coverage area.
Overview:
Traditional approaches to WLAN planning and design
Overview of Next Generation Wireless LAN Infrastructures
Wireless LAN Policy - Plan IT, Write IT, Do IT, Check IT
Get it in writing! Those immortal words of the legal world apply to Wi-Fi. One of the most important, yet most neglected, steps for implementing and maintaining a secure, reliable wireless LAN environment is creating and executing documentation and policy. Even if your organization is not implementing a mobile or wireless environment, you still need a network policy document. This session will guide and accelerate the sometimes-daunting task of creating your policy documents and following through by executing the policy.
The session will cover:
Outlines, guides and samples for policy documents
Policy, security and implementation checklists
Tools to help manage the audit process
Understanding General versus Functional Policy
Instructor: Francis Rabuck, President, Rabuck Associates
WLAN Security Tutorial
This three-part, six-hour workshop is designed to give administrators of traditional and wireless LANs an overview of the security issues associated with WLANs and demonstrate basic and advanced tools and techniques to mitigate WLAN security risks. Attendees should have solid network administration experience and a basic working knowledge of WLANs. Prior security knowledge is not required. Instructors: Diana Kelley, Principal Analyst, Baroudi Bloor Lisa Phifer, Vice President, Core Competence, Inc.
10:00am - 12:00pm
Part 1: Foundations
The initial portion of the workshop presents an overview of security issues encountered during WLAN deployment and explains aspects of 802.11 that are germane to security. Learn first-hand what common vulnerabilities like spoofing and eavesdropping really expose. Get a handle on less-publicized but equally worrisome threats like password capture and flood attacks. Instructors will use stumblers, analyzers, and intrusion detection tools to illustrate risks and show how such tools can help you protect your own wireless network.
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Lunch Break
1:00pm - 3:00pm
Part 2: Building Private WLANs
Students in Part 2 will be expected to be familiar with the contents of Part 1. In order to participate in hands-on exercises, students must bring their own laptop and 802.11 NIC.
The second part of this workshop builds on the information presented during Part 1. It provides a series of steps or lessons to guide administrators in creating a private WLAN that is sufficiently secure for its intended purpose. Students will be able to participate in hands-on exercises designed to provide increasing levels of wireless privacy (WEP, VPN). Instructors will provide planning and configuration tips to help administrators avoid some common WLAN security and privacy pitfalls.
3:00pm - 3:15pm
Afternoon Break
3:15pm - 5:15pm
Part 3: Stronger Access Controls
Students in Part 3 will be expected to be familiar with the contents of Parts 1 and 2. To participate in 802.1X exercises, students must have their own 802.11 NICs and laptops that run Windows XP or client software capable of supporting EAP-TLS.
The third part of this workshop builds on the information presented during Part 2, adding incrementally-stronger access control measures (MAC lists, SSL portals, 802.1X port access controls). Students will be able to participate in hands-on exercises designed to lock down WLAN access more tightly, culminating in detailed discussion of 802.1X, certificate vs. password authentication, and selection of EAP type. Session concludes with a general-purpose "Security Deployment Checklist" for WLAN planners and administrators.
Intro to CWNA Certification
Wondering where your equivalent to Novel's CNA or CNE is in the world of wireless? The Certified Wireless Network Professional (CWNP) program is the industry's vendor-neutral answer, a training course followed by certification testing in various levels of difficulty. This workshop is a two-hour cram-session for the foundation level: the Certified Wireless Network Administrator (CWNA), which will explain just what you'll get and will provide samples of the examination. Instructor: Francis Rabuck, President, Rabuck Associates
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Lunch Break
1:00pm - 3:00pm
Intro to CWSP Certification
A wireless LAN without security is like a submarine with screen doors: useless at best and dangerous at worst. But to get the smarts needed to secure their wireless setup, network administrators should get the training they need. The Certified Wireless Security Professional (CWSP) program builds on the CWNA course with straight-ahead teachings on WLAN weaknesses and threats, with hands on training on reducing risks. This two-hour block will introduce people to what to expect from the CWSP, and provide a practice test of the 60-question certification exam. Instructor: Devin Akin, CTO, Planet3 Wireless
3:00pm - 3:15pm
Afternoon Break
3:15pm - 5:15pm
Introduction to Cisco & Vendor Specific WLAN Certifications
Certifications on the basics of wireless are great... but Cisco and other vendor-specific shops need something extra. GigaWave Technologies is the company behind the authorized training for Cisco Aironet Wireless products, and has introduced a wide selection of multi-day classes covering everything from Mobile IP to public access specialization, and of course, Wi-Fi security. They also are the first to develop and deliver courseware on Vivato's unique Wi-Fi switch. This session is an overview of GigaWave's complete suite of Wi-Fi and enterprise mobility curriculum. Using specific examples taken from GigaWave's training courseware, attendees will learn first-hand about the many technical and career benefits of vendor authorized training and certification. Instructor: Charles Sablatura, Vice President of Training, GigaWave
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