Assessing the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Security Approaches

As technology has evolved, Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) protocol is no longer considered effective for establishing a secure wireless network. Today, the tools found in common penetration testing kits are now fully automated, with GUIs that make cracking a WEP key as easy as point and click. Once it became apparent that WEP had fatal, unfixable flaws, there were immediate efforts to develop a successor.