Security Measures taken in Securing Data Transmission on Wireless LAN

The need for quality availability and secured data transmission and access at any location without limitation to time is transforming the society and our workplace by increasing the throughput, flexibility, efficiency and convenience at our various locations. This is made possible by the increase proliferation of wireless local area networking (WLAN) at different location in the human society. It is defining the dynamic ways through which data could be seamlessly transmitted and accessed by flexible mobile users at different locations. However, security of data still remains elusive. In this new, highly important and fast emerging field, security is being touted as the main obstacle militating against the extensive usage of this technology. However, in the midst of this security challenge, there is a massive patronage of the wireless local area network by every sector of the Nigeria society for their day to day activities. In this paper, the authors critically x-rayed security measures for data transmission on wireless LAN.