Coleman - CWSP: certified wireless security professional study guide CWSP-205

Study Guide CWSP-205

David D. Coleman

David A. Westcott

Bryan Harkins

Executive Editor: Jim Minatel
Development Editor: Kim Wimpsett
Technical Editors: Chris Lyttle and Ben Wilson
Production Editor: Dassi Zeidel
Copy Editor: Liz Welch
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Production Manager: Kathleen Wisor
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Proofreader: Rebecca Rider
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We dedicate this book to the knowledgeable and competent wireless consultants, designers, and installers, and those who are working diligently to become one. You are the front lines of the industry, explaining the technology to customers, including trying to make them understand that more power and more APs often does not mean better WLAN performance. Wireless networking is a shared medium and a shared community, and we are honored to be part of it and to be able to contribute.

When we wrote the first edition of the CWSP Study Guide, David Colemans children, Carolina and Brantley, were just entering college. Carolina now holds a masters degree in public policy from the University of Southern California (USC). Brantley graduated from Boston University and is currently working toward his Ph.D. in biochemistry at the University of Washington. David would like to thank his now adult children for years of support and for making their dad very proud. David would also like to thank his mother Marjorie Barnes, stepfather William Barnes, and brother Rob Coleman, for many years of support and encouragement.

David Coleman would also like to thank the entire Aerohive Networks Knowledge Services department. Additionally, David sends many thanks to Matthew Gast, Paul Levasseur, Abby Strong, Gregor Vucajnk, and all of his co-workers at Aerohive Networks (www.aerohive.com). It has been a honor working with you to help build something special.

David Westcott would like to thank Janie for her love and support. I know that my travel and book-writing schedule is difficult to deal with. I say it all of the time and I will continue to say it: thank you and I love you for your support and for everything that you do for me.

Bryan Harkins would like to thank his wife, Ronda, and his two daughters, Chrystan and Catelynn, and their families, including his three granddaughters, Kaylee, Mikynlee, and Lorali, for allowing him the ability to work with constant travel and the time away from them it has taken to create this book. He would also like to thank his parents for always being there and his brother Chris for getting him involved with IT in the first place. Additionally, he would like to thank Ed Walton, Jeff Manning, and Kent Woodruff for the chance to build something great at Cradlepoint and the team there for their assistance in doing so.

Writing CWSP: Certified Wireless Security Professional Study Guide has once again been an adventure. We would like to thank the following individuals for their support and contributions during the entire process.

We must first thank Sybex acquisitions editor Jim Minatel for reaching out to us and encouraging us to write this second edition of our wireless security book. We would also like to thank our development editor, Kim Wimpsett, who has been a pleasure to work with. We also need to send special thanks to our editorial manager, Mary Beth Wakefield; our production editors, Rebecca Anderson and Dassi Zeidel; and Liz Welch, our copyeditor.

We also need to give a big shout-out to our technical editor, Chris Lyttle, CWNE #156. We have personally known Chris for many years. His Wi-Fi background and knowledge were invaluable to providing the amazing technical editing that this book deserved. We encourage you to follow Chris on his blog www.wifikiwi.com or on Twitter: @wifikiwi. And of course, we offer many thanks to our technical proofreader, Ben Wilson. Ben has accumulated years of Wi-Fi experience working for three major WLAN vendors. We encourage you to follow Ben on Twitter: @AirNetworkBen. We would also like to thank Shawn Jackman for his contributions to the first edition of the