1. What risk exposure are you subjecting your Microsoft Windows systems to by opening up ports on your internal firewall? Buy opening ports in your firewall it is allowing people access to you network and if anybody that trys to get in figures out the port they can potentially gain access to your system.

2. Using the VM’s on your student workstation, how can you test if your Windows internal firewall is configured properly? By going to start -> control Panel -> Select firewall there it gives you the options that are on Windows Firewall.

3. Name at least three significant risks of logging in to access points in airports, hotels and other public places. Explain. E-commerce involves the passing of sensitive information, like credit card numbers or bank account numbers, over the Internet, and the risk of losing the privacy of this information is high in public places. Theft of unencrypted wireless data can easily occur in public areas because WiFi hotspots do not provide encryption, such as WEP, WPA, or WPA2, in order to simplify the connection process and minimize the management workload. Evil twin hotspot: These are hot spots set up by a hacker and made available to the public. Unknowing users who connect to the Internet using these access points are then exposing their sensitive information to the hacker. To avoid being tricked by this set up, check to see if the login to a WiFi hotspot is SSL encrypted, and look for a valid security certificate.

4. Name at least three WLAN network devices commonly found in enterprise WLAN systems. NIC, Access Point, Wireless NIC

5. Name at least 5 methods of wireless communications that need to be secured and accounted for in a typical enterprise environment?

Video conferencing, Email, Messaging, Phone calls and