On today’s Heavy Wireless Keith Parsons and Jennifer (JJ) Minella discuss transitioning from WPA2 to WPA3, including pros and cons, managing the project, and supporting WPA2 and WPA3 simultaneously. They also discuss the importance of thorough testing and preparation before making any major security transitions—especially for organizations with thousands of devices. JJ also shares resources for those who want to learn more about wireless security. JJ is founder and Principal Advisor at Viszen Security, and a trainer and author. She also blogs at Security Uncorked and at Packet Pushers. Show Links: Viszen Security Security Uncorked – Jennifer’s blog @jjx – Jennifer on Twitter Secure Wi-Fi Migrations: A WPA3 How-To – YouTube Wireless Security Architecture: Designing and Maintaining Secure Wireless for Enterprise – Wiley Transcript: [This transcript was generated automatically and is presented as is without editing or error correction.] Speaker 0 [Keith] (00:00:01) – Hello again. This is Keith Parsons with Heavy Wireless, a podcast that’s part of the Pack Pushers podcasting network. And today we’re gonna be talking about a deep dive that Jennifer Minnelli gave at W O P C, specifically on, uh, wifi security. Jennifer, how are you? Speaker 1 [JJ] (00:00:18) – I’m doing great. Hi, Keith. Speaker 0 (00:00:19) – Well, uh, a couple days ago I read a article you posted on LinkedIn about your reaction to the deep dive. You taught in some of the observations, and I thought this would make a great podcast for, we need more people to hear about the things you found out. Uh, so can you just kind of tell us about the deep dive, what was the contents, and, and then we’ll after that we’ll kinda lead into what the, the results and observations were? Speaker 1 (00:00:45) – Absolutely. Yeah, it was, that was a fun thing. So that was my first, um, you know, teaching experience at W L P C. Um, and this content is at my Security Uncorked blog. So it’s a, the article you’re talking about is a very long one, and the observations we’re gonna talk through are kind of almost buried towards midway through. Um, so it’s great to kind of pull these out as actionable stuff. So the Deep Dive was based on my secure wifi design class, which was kind of a mini workshop style training. Um, and of course, before I was working with you for W L P C, the exercises were a little more like planning and kind of paper-based. Um, so we converted this to something that was more hands-on and I needed to kind of like zero in on something that we could get the students through in a, you know, a two half day session. Speaker 1 (00:01:32) – So what we did was, um, I kind of pulled out based on, you know, the timing and the temperature of where we are in the world of security and wireless, and said, you know, what would be really great is let’s give people a hands-on opportunity to do a best practice w p a three security migration. So specifically going from W p a two to three on both, um,