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Sensei Article Featured in Slaw Magazine

August 9, 2018

Sensei’s Sharon Nelson and John Simek’s article, “New WPA3 WiFi Standard Released” was featured recently in Slaw Magazine. Slaw is a Canadian online legal magazine.

ExcerptWell, it’s finally here. In the fall of 2017, a vulnerability in WPA2 wireless encryption was discovered. Known as the Krack Attack, the flaw impacts every implementation of WPA2. The manufacturers needed to provide a patch update to fix the flaw. The Wi-Fi Alliance has now announced the availability of the WPA3 standard (to be implemented in certified devices starting later this year), vastly improving security over WPA2, which has been around for over 15 years and should be the current WiFi encryption of choice. WPA3 provides a new security protocol that contains improvements in terms of configuration, authentication and encryption. Just like WPA2, WPA3 will be available in personal and enterprise versions.

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