Análisis y mejora de la red inalámbrica de la UC. Auditoria de seguridad e integración con la iniciativa EduRoam

Abstract

Wireless technologies are recently introduced in the Spanish universities and these technologies have supposed an improvement of the services offered to the users mainly, in the aspect of mobility within the campus, and the mobility between different institutions. Since, the conventional protection techniques used with Wi-Fi networks [1], like Wireless Equivalent Privacy (WEP) are obsolete, new solutions are needed in order to ensure the adequate network protection. This communication summarizes the ambitious project developed by the University of Cantabria in order to improve the security of the wireless network that exist in our University, and the adjust of those procedures to the paneuropean EduRoam (Education Roaming) initiative. Eduroam, is a RADIUS-based infrastructure that uses 802.1X security technology to allow for inter-institutional roaming. Being part of eduroam allows users visiting another institution connected to eduroam to log on to the WLAN using the same credentials (username and password) the user would use if he were at his home institution.