Wi-Fi Security To Get It's Biggest Update Till Date

Wi-Fi devicess have been using the same security protocolfor over a decade. But today the Wi-Fi alliance is beginning to certify devices that support WPA3, the successor of WPA2 security protocol that's been in use since 2004. The new protocol provides an additional protections for devices connected over a Wi-Fi. This improvement makes it harder for hackers to crack your password with some common password list and bruteforce attack. Nothing will change as far as user sees it, you still have to type in the password and connect to the network.
WPA3 is available on new routers that are certified by Wi-Fi alliance, and it's upto the individual vendor weather to install the protocol on existing router with a software update.

WPA3 will replace the existing WPA2 security protocol, which was introduced over a decade ago, in 2004. Security problems in WPA2 cropped up occasionally at that time reminding us that unsecured Wi-Fi is bad news.


The WPA3 program will bring much needed updates to wireless security protecting all levels of customers to consumers from enterprise and government.

The first big update and feature in WPA3 is protection against offline password guessing attacks.This is where an attacker captures data from your Wi-Fi stream, brings it back to a private computer, and guesses the password over and over again until they find a match. With WPA3, attackers are only supposed to guess the password only once while doing the offline password guessing attack.

WPA3 ADDS FORWARD SECRECY AND PREVENTS OFFLINE ATTACKS.

WPA3's major addition is Forward Secrecy. This is a privacy feature that prevents older data from being compromised by a later attack, So if an attacker captures an encrypted Wi-Fi transmission, then cracks the password, they still won't be able to read the older data, they would only be able to see the fresh data flowing through the Wi-Fi stream that time.

YOU'LL START TO SEE WPA3 A LOT MORE IN 2020.

The Wi-Fi alliance expect to see the WPA3 rollout to ramp up over the next year. For now it won't be mandatory for new products. But the next generation of Wi-Fi is also starting to come out and is expected to hit mass adoption ti late 2019.

Even though WPA2 is over a decade old it hasn't sat untouched since then.The protocol is still maintained and updated to address new exploits and new protections; the alliance says WPA3 will be the same way.