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Question:

Your office is located in a building with a number of other companies. How should you configure the wireless network to prevent casual users in the building from seeing your network name easily?

A Disable SSID broadcasts.
explanation

Turning off the SSID (service set identifier) broadcast is one of the recommended ways of "protecting" the network. The SSID serves as the network's name. The access point is still present and accessible to people who are aware of it, but it is hidden from view by anyone scanning a list of available networks. There are still other more complicated ways to discover the presence of the access point, so the SSID broadcast is regarded as a weak form of security. WPA3 is a secure Wi-Fi encryption standard. Based on the MAC (Media Access Control) address associated with a NIC (Network Interface Card), MAC filtering grants or prohibits access to the network.

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