To SSID or Not To SSID

• Advantages to broadcasting SSID / ESSID

• • Autodetection of Networks by workstations

• Disadvantages to broadcasting SSID / ESSID

• • Closed network names appearing on foreign workstations
  • Potential for accidental connections (if not encrypted)

• Advantages to NOT broadcasting SSID / ESSID

• • Notice: “This network is not public”
  • Accidental connections highly unlikely

• Disadvantages to NOT broadcasting SSID / ESSID

• • Manual configuration of networks and workstations
  • “False sense of security”