Gotta love that when someones lack of understanding and bad advice makes people that get it run around like a chicken with its head cut off. Been there, seen that...
Z Edward Ziots CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization [email protected] From: Silvio L. Nisgoski [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 7:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Hiding Wireless SSID That is one of the reasons I choose to configure in the GPO and hide it. When it is not hidden, a lot of wannabee "security experts" will just put it in their "consulting advice", and present themselves to the directors as having "discovered a huge security problem" ....and making me waste important time explaining the why´s and what´s to marketing and finance directors that don´t understand technology that much. ----- Original Message ----- From: Hank . <mailto:[email protected]> To: NT System Admin Issues <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 1:16 PM Subject: Re: Hiding Wireless SSID I absolutely never hide SSIDs since there is zero security benefit and just additional complexity for everyone. For some reason hiding SSIDs became the cute thing to do and the various talking heads picked up on it and added to their list of their "expert suggestions"... On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 8:55 AM, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote: How many of you folks do it, and why? It's my debate this week with one of my security folks, my slant being that hiding it gains nothing but unnecessary Service Desk involvement in helping folks configure wireless. http://blogs.technet.com/b/steriley/archive/2007/10/16/myth-vs-reality-wireless-ssids.aspx I also told said person to Google "Does hiding wireless SSID add security". David Lum Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
