Wireless Sensor Network Security: Vulnerabilities, Threats and Countermeasures

Wireless Internet access technology is being increasingly deployed in all areas like MNC and public environments, as well as by the Internet users at home. It becomes extremely important to all internet users. A Wireless Network is a wireless communication system that allows computers and workstations to communicate and exchange data with each other using electromagnetic waves as the transmission medium. Wireless sensor network is a combination of tiny devices called as sensor nodes which have computing, sensing and processing capabilities. Security is a major important issue in wireless network. End users are not security experts, and may not be aware of the risks posed by wireless networks. Effective management of the threats associated with wireless technology requires a sound and systematic evaluation of risk given the environment and development of a plan to mitigate identified threats. This paper deals with the security aspects in each layer in the wireless sensor networks giving the probable counter measure for the same.

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