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your access point (for home users). Refer to Enterprise Security.
For general information about security settings, refer to
Security Overview.
Personal Security
Use Personal Security if you are a home or small business user who can use a variety of simple security
procedures to protect your wireless connection. Select from the list of security settings that do not require
extensive infrastructure setup for your wireless network. A
RADIUS or AAA server is not required.
● Review the Set up Data Encryption and Authentication information to learn about the different security
types.
● To add or change the required security settings, click Security Settings for information to set security for
the selected wireless network.
● See Profile Management for a description of when to use the Profile Wizard.
● See Security Overview for more information about the different security options for wireless networks.
● If you want to verify the security settings, select a wireless network in the Wireless Networks list. Click
Details to review the operating mode, authentication level and data encryption.
● See Enterprise Security to set 802.1x authentication security.
Personal Security Settings
Personal Security Settings Description
None WEP CKIP TKIP AES-CCMP
Name Setting
Personal Security
Select to open the Personal Security settings. The security settings that are available
are dependent on the Operating Mode selected in the
Profile Wizard: Device to Device
(ad hoc) or Network (Infrastructure).
Data Encryption
If you configure a profile for a Device to Device (ad hoc) network, select
● None: No authentication required.
● WEP-64 bit or WEP-128 bit: A network key or password is used for encryption.
If you configure an profile for an Infrastructure network, select:
● None: No authentication required.
● WEP-64 bit or WEP-128 bit: A network key or password is used for encryption.
● WPA-Personal (TKIP) or WPA2-Personal (TKIP): WPA-Personal utilizes the
Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) for data encryption.
● WPA-Personal (AES-CCMP) or WPA2-Personal (AES-CCMP): WPA-Personal
utilizes a new method for privacy protection of wireless transmissions specified
in the IEEE 802.11i standard, AES-CCMP