{"id":243912,"date":"2018-01-09T07:37:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T05:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=243912"},"modified":"2018-01-09T07:39:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T05:39:51","slug":"better-wi-fi-security-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/243912-better-wi-fi-security-announced.html","title":{"rendered":"Better Wi-Fi security announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wi-fi.org\/news-events\/newsroom\/wi-fi-alliance-introduces-security-enhancements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Wi-Fi Alliance is introducing<\/strong><\/a> enhancements and new features for Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA), which is used to secure wireless networks.<\/p>\n<p>WPA was launched in 2003 and the more secure WPA2 became available in 2004. Since then, not much has changed regarding the security standard.<\/p>\n<p>The Wi-Fi Alliance is now launching configuration, authentication, and encryption enhancements for WPA.<\/p>\n<p>Building on the adoption of WPA2, the Wi-Fi Alliance will deliver a suite of features to simplify Wi-Fi security while enhancing Wi-Fi network security protections.<\/p>\n<p>Four new capabilities for Wi-Fi networks will emerge in 2018 as part of Wi-Fi Certified WPA3.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the features will deliver robust protections, even when users choose passwords that fall short of complexity recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>This will simplify the process of configuring security for devices which have display interface limitations.<\/p>\n<p>Another feature will strengthen user privacy in open networks through individualised data encryption.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, a 192-bit security suite will protect Wi-Fi networks with high security requirements.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/237960-how-vast-ensures-its-wi-fi-network-is-secure.html\">How VAST ensures its Wi-Fi network is secure<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wi-Fi Alliance is introducing enhancements and new features for WPA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":106705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48128,48130,28699,48132],"class_list":["post-243912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-wi-fi-security","tag-wpa","tag-wpa2","tag-wpa3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243912"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243930,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243912\/revisions\/243930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}