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09/02/2026

Congrats to CWNE #640, Matthew Magill!
Pennsylvania, USA

https://zurl.co/5Wp0L

09/01/2026

Hotel and conference Wi-Fi networks are being used to push fake software updates loaded with malware, according to Microsoft threat intelligence.

Here's how it works: you connect to what looks like a normal hotel network. The captive portal prompts you for a routine-looking update or security check. That single click hands over device access. No encryption flaw required.

Source: https://zurl.co/NoiJj

This is a trust exploit built on top of a captive portal, exactly the kind of social engineering vector that firewalls and encryption alone don't stop.

Wireless security professionals who understand rogue AP detection, captive portal risk, and authentication frameworks at the protocol level are the ones who catch this before it becomes an incident. That's the depth CWSP is built for.

Traveling for work this fall? Reject any software update, certificate, or "security tool" offered through a hotel or conference Wi-Fi login page.

Where's the last place you got a suspicious Wi-Fi login prompt? Drop it below.

Start here: https://zurl.co/yctwV

08/31/2026

📘 Wi-Fi Word of the Day: PIM (Personal Information Management)

Not every wireless standard you need to know is 802.11.

PIM shows up in Bluetooth devices, and it's exactly what it sounds like: a way to store personal information like contacts, calendar items, notes, and email messages directly on a mobile Bluetooth device.

Here's where it gets useful. PIM Synchronization lets that stored information sync between the Bluetooth device and a personal computer. Update a contact on one, it shows up on the other.

It's a small piece of a much bigger picture, but it's a good reminder that wireless professionals don't just live in the 2.4, 5, and 6 GHz world. Bluetooth, IoT protocols, and the standards that connect them all matter too.

08/31/2026

Congrats to CWNE #639, Jacob Wilson!
Phoenix, USA

https://zurl.co/wbC3s

08/27/2026

AI is already inside every platform your team works on. The question is who understands it well enough to explain it.

Cisco, Aruba, Juniper Mist. Every major platform is shipping AI into the core: AIOps for monitoring, AI-driven security analysis, automated remediation. That's a good thing for your team's speed. It's a harder thing for a client conversation when someone asks how a decision got made and the honest answer is "the platform decided that."

The CAIAE (Certified AI Administrator and Engineer) gives your team the operational AI knowledge to close that gap: how to plan, implement, manage, and secure AI solutions across environments, without needing a development or data science background. It's vendor-neutral, so it applies across every platform your clients run, not just the one you sell.

40 questions. 100 minutes. The full bundle includes elearning, a practice test, and the certification exam, and your engineers can work through it on their own schedule.

The live class already ran. The certification is still open.
Reach out to Jose for group pricing:
📩 [email protected]
📞 (984) 227-8564 Ext 1020

Learn more: https://zurl.co/gSxUB

08/26/2026

📊 CWNP Quick Poll

As a Wi-Fi client moves away from its access point, its data rate steps down to maintain a stable connection, for example, from 54 Mbps to 48 Mbps to 36 Mbps.
What's this behavior called?

A) Transition Control
B) Dynamic Rate Switching
C) Basic Rate Adaptation
D) Network Allocation Vector

#80211

08/24/2026

When setting up their CWNP exam, one candidate expected strict, stressful remote proctoring. Instead: "The CWNP Remote Proctoring completely changed that perception. They were kind, supportive, and really made the whole process simple and stress-free."

Another summed it up just as plainly: "It was seamless. I had no issues with the exam proctoring. The proctor was on time and guided me properly."

CWNP Remote Proctoring is available for all certifications except CWSS and CWTS. Schedule on your timeline, test from your desk, get results the same day.

If logistics have been holding you back, that excuse is gone.
📍 All CWNP certifications offer remote proctoring (except CWSS and CWTS)
📩 Questions? [email protected]

08/21/2026

There's a Wi-Fi standard running your industrial sensors that most Wi-Fi engineers have never touched.

Wi-Fi HaLow (802.11ah) isn't built for streaming video or fast downloads. It's built for the opposite problem: getting a small amount of data from a device that needs to survive on battery power for years, sitting hundreds of meters from the nearest access point.

That tradeoff is exactly why it's gaining ground fast. Sub-1 GHz spectrum gives HaLow far better range and wall pe*******on than standard Wi-Fi, while sipping a fraction of the power. For asset tracking, agricultural sensors, smart building controls, and industrial monitoring at scale, that combination solves a problem 2.4 and 5 GHz Wi-Fi were never designed to handle.

According to ABI Research, Wi-Fi HaLow-enabled device shipments are forecast to grow faster than any other wireless connectivity technology tracked, a 45% CAGR between 2025 and 2030.

Here's the gap: most wireless professionals can talk fluently about 802.11ax and 802.11be, but have never worked with 802.11ah. If your customers are already deploying industrial IoT or long-range sensor networks, that's a blind spot worth closing before someone else on your team closes it first.

CWNP's IoT track, starting with CWISA, builds the protocol-level understanding that covers exactly this kind of emerging, non-Wi-Fi-but-still-802.11 technology.

Has HaLow shown up on any of your projects yet?

Source: ABI Research, "Six Wireless Trends Analysts Are Tracking in 2026," https://zurl.co/On6jm

Explore the IoT track: https://zurl.co/2zt78

Here are the top six wireless trends that ABI Research's analyst team is studying in 2026.

08/19/2026

Every IoT device you deploy is a door. Is your team securing all of them?

Wireless IoT deployments multiply the number of entry points in a customer's network fast. Sensors, controllers, gateways, each one running a different protocol with its own security model.

A security gap in a deployment your company delivered becomes your company's liability, not just the customer's problem.

CWNP's IoT certifications give your engineers the knowledge to assess and design for security across the full range of wireless IoT protocols they'll encounter in the field. It's the difference between deploying IoT and deploying it responsibly.

Let's talk about what this looks like for your team.

📩 [email protected]
📞 (984) 227-8564 Ext 1020

08/18/2026

Anyone can point an AP at a room. Not everyone can design a network that holds up under real load.

Wireless design is different from wireless deployment. Deployment is placing hardware. Design is understanding capacity requirements, security architecture, and validation before a single AP goes on the ceiling, then proving the network performs the way it's supposed to once it's live.

The Certified Wireless Design Professional (CWDP) certification builds that discipline. You'll work through requirements gathering, site surveys that reflect reality instead of assumptions, capacity planning beyond basic coverage, and end-to-end security design. It's vendor-neutral, so the methodology holds up whatever hardware ends up on the ceiling, and it earns credit toward CWNE.

If you've ever inherited a network that looked fine on paper and fell apart under real usage, this is the certification that teaches you how to prevent that from being your name on the project.

Start here: https://zurl.co/Q2ACi

Interested in group pricing?
📩 Reach out to Jose Cantanhede at [email protected]
or Call on (984) 227-8564 Ext 1020