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Network testing is a wide means of testing security control across a network to recognize and illustrate vulnerabilities and examine risks. It helps in validating security defenses, comply with mandates, and test security controls. The wireless penetration testing approach can be used to test the security strength if the LAN network. It focuses on the wireless gateway to exploit and identify vulnerabilities. Testing the network's security strength enables firms to mitigate risks before they occur, and the approach serves as a third party to the firm's threat management (Wahyudi et al., 2019). Therefore, all the vulnerabilities are effectively addressed by this approach, thus prevent a data breach and unauthorized access.

The network design is the star physical topology, which is a local area network. The WEP approach can measure security strength, which provides authentication techniques and is the oldest standard for LAN encryption. The users can have a shared key for authentication, which allows them to gain access to particular information (Farkash, 2018). However, it is considered outdated and unsafe as a result of the ever-changing world. Another approach is the WLAN protected setup, which is an automatic configuration feature. It makes the configuration of the LAN easy for new network operators. Verification is done at the push of a button by inserting a PIN. A person can also alter the network settings through USB or other methods.

Hackers can compromise the security measures by changing the source port of their attack in firewall security measures. This is because it will allow the traffic of the attacker to go through since it assumes it is DNS traffic. Another strategy is zipping up files with Trojan or encryption it making the antivirus system not to be able to scan it for viruses. It easily compromises this measure since the hacker can still spread viruses to the company's system by just emailing Trojans to various people at the enterprise. When these people open those files, they give a backdoor entry to the attacker's internal network.

References

Farkash, M. (2018). NETWORK TOPOLOGY. Retrieved from