Managing administrative functionality

Hackers look for ways to access the management or administration pages of access points so they
can enable the DHCP server and block out any ACL that might be preventing
them from logging into your network. One of the ways in which
you can protect yourself is to enable the user authentication features of
your access point so that you can make it exceedingly difficult for hackers
to log onto these devices or change their settings.

Another means of making certain that hackers can’t use wireless
channels to alter the management settings for your access point devices
is to make certain that all traffic designed to control the management
functionality of your access point can only be accessed through your
wired Ethernetwork. In this way, a hacker would have to gain access to
the actual wiring inside your company in order to do any damage. Since
most hackers only look for resources they can access through your wireless
network, controlling the access to local workstations provides a little
more protection.

Another way to control access to your wireless router is to use a serial
port connection interface, as opposed to a network connection. The
idea is to reduce the possibility that someone will be able to reconfigure
the device to access sensitive or confidential information within your
organization.