Description
Wireless Network Security Benefits
- Easy and quick to install
- The ability to conduct strong wireless access audits
- Does not send out any wireless traffic
- Easily locate a missing laptop
- Locate every wireless network within range
- Locate all conversations within range
How it Works
The APFinder tool works by scanning the all wireless channels in the 802.11a and 802.11b/g range. (This will identify 802.11n as well!) APFinder reports the following information:
- Wireless access points in range, along with:
- 1. Signal strength
- 2. Number of computers using the wireless access point
- 3. Encryption type being used
- 4. Network name, even if cloaked
- 5. country code of the AP
- and more…
- Conversations in range, along with:
- 1. Signal strength, allowing for computers using a specific access point to be physically located
- 2. MAC address of the wireless card being used
- All of the networks being sought by every wireless network in range, which makes your wireless audits even stronger
Key Features
- The APFinder CD is a live linux CD, which provides the power of Linux, and it installs from a CD when you boot your laptop
- Totally passive method
- Reports when the user is within 20 feet and 10 feet of a wireless access point or source of a conversation
- It easily reports the signal strength for WEP encrpyted as well as open networks
- It scans 802.11a as well as 802.11b/g networks
