At first glance, a wireless network seems to have tremendous
and obvious risks. The risks to WiFi clients include
eavesdropping with the intent of learning what the client is
doing or with the intent of intercepting authentication information.
In addition to eavesdropping, wireless networks
are prone to jamming, spoofing, rogue access points, and
possible Man-in-the-middle attacks.
However, at a second look, it seems that the same problems
are also present in wired networks. For example, a
rogue access point might be seen as a threat to the network
administrator, but not a threat to the clients on the network.
Hence, wireless security problems can be solved by all the
known solutions to the security problems in wired networks.