A Virtual Testbed for Wireless Penetration Testing

Authors

Carranza, Aparicio

Bustamante, Miguel

Carranza, Harrison

DeCusatis, Casimer

Alexander, Kavion

Abstract

Wireless Access Points are susceptible to many types of cybersecurity attacks. Among the most common are efforts to compromise encryption keys using de-authentication based attacks. In this tutorial paper, we investigate penetration testing of wireless networks using open source tools such as Fern WiFi Cracker with an Aircrack-ng backbone to compromise WEP, WPA, and WPA-2 encryption. We describe implementation of a virtual testbed environment, and experimental results of this approach.