Hello and congratulations.
You have made it to the end of my getting personal with WPA3 Wi-Fi security
course. Yay! Congratulations!
There was a lot of meat in this course, a lot of really nitty gritty detail,
and I hope you learned a lot and you're walking away from it with a much
better respect for WPA3 and all the things that can offer you.
So let's just real quickly go through a recap of all the things that we
talked about. So we talked about Wi -Fi key management and cryptographic
foundations. So we learned about, for example, how everything starts out
with a pairwise master key, which then is translated into a pairwise transient
key, which then ultimately is broken up into the key encryption key, the
key confirmation key, and the temporal key.
We learned all about that and how those things are derived.
We looked at the evolution of the security protocols of WPA2 going into
WPA3. We also looked at how to protect management and open network communications.
We looked at protective management frames and how the mix are derived
for that. We talked about beacon protection and we talked about how to
protect open networks, how it could offer like opportunistic wireless
encryption for offering open networks that actually provide encryption
in airports and coffee shops and things like that.
We also talked about the Wi-Fi easy connect feature of WPA3 and how it
uses the device provisioning protocol and a whole lot more.
So hopefully, as this course wraps up now, you are feel confident that
you can do the following things.
Hopefully you can explain to others the complete Wi-Fi key hierarchy,
its functions, and how it's derived.
Hopefully you can adequately convey how keys derived, especially the pairwise
master key, how the process of developing the pairwise master key in WPA2
personal is very different than the process in WPA3 simultaneous authentication
of equals. I hope now you're able to analyze the importance and operation
of WPA3 protected management frames and beacon protection.
You can explain to others how this adds an additional layer of security
to Wi-Fi networks, how it uses the message integrity code, and how those
message integrity codes are used and derived for specific management frames.
And hopefully now you have a little bit of comfort and familiarity with
configuring and validating modern Wi-Fi security enhancements.
I went through a demonstration of how to configure the Wi-Fi opportunistic
wireless encryption, otherwise known as Wi-Fi and we also showed you how
the things, how some other WPA3 features worked as well.
So what are some next steps you might be wondering, what do I do next?
Now that I've finished this, well, I would recommend checking out some
of the other wireless content we have within our platform, such as getting
there with wireless mobility and roaming.
If you want to get down in the weeds with how the various roaming features
work, you could look at fast track, wireless land how you can see how
the Cisco Calist Center can pair with your 9800 wireless land controller
to give you increased visibility into what's going on in your network,
and also wireless without the headache, starting out with the 9800 wireless
land controller.
If you've never had any experience with the 9800 wireless land controller
from Cisco, that is a great course to watch.
We even have some labs on it so it can get used to configuring things
like wireless lands, policy profiles, and policy tags.
So thank you so much for watching this course, and as I've said a million
times, but I truly mean it, I really hope you got a lot out of this course.