Security through measurement for wireless LANs
Speaker: David Kotz, Dartmouth College, Institute for Security Technology Studies
Tuesday, April 4, 2006, 11:00 am, MCS 135
With the rise of Voice over wireless LAN (VoWLAN), any complete WiFi security solution must address denial of service attacks, such as kicking off other clients, consuming excessive bandwidth, or spoofing access points, to the detriment of legitimate clients. Even authorized clients may be able to sufficiently disrupt service quality to make the network ineffective for legitimate clients. Our approach provides a new foundation for wireless network security, able to dynamically measure, analyze and protect a WiFi network against existing and novel threats, including rogue clients and access points, with a focus on VoWLAN use cases. Our goal is to support thousands of APs and clients, quickly recognize most new attacks, and generate few false alarms.
In this talk I present an overview of work in progress, outlining the architecture of the MAP system and describing the results of our recent experiments with adaptive network measurement and initial methods of packet analysis.
— An Institute for Security Technology Studies project at Dartmouth College in cooperation with UMass Lowell, and Aruba networks. This project is funded by the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency as part of the Cyber Security Research and Development (CSRD) program. —
Host: Mark Crovella