The Invisible Airborne Perimeter

Your firewall is on. Your endpoint protection is current. Your wireless network is wide open.

Most organisations secure their buildings, their servers, and their endpoints - then leave the airspace completely undefended. An attacker with a laptop and a wireless adapter, sitting in a car park, a coffee shop, or a hotel lobby, can impersonate your corporate network, harvest credentials from your employees' devices, and be gone before your SIEM logs a single alert. No malware. No perimeter breach. No trace.

This is the invisible airborne perimeter. And this book is the complete field manual for defending it.

What this book covers:

• How wireless attacks work - evil twins, rogue access points, deauthentication floods, SSID spoofing, and credential harvesting - explained at the level of detail a security architect needs


• The complete S.I.G.N.A.L. framework: See, Identify, Govern, Neutralise, Authenticate, Log - six pillars for building a wireless security programme that runs itself


• The Airborne Zero-Trust Model (AZT-7): a seven-phase assessment and improvement cycle that replaces point-in-time audits with continuous hardening


• The Invisible Airborne Perimeter Model (IAP-8): an eight-layer architecture framework that maps every control from physical signal containment to board governance


• Sector-specific guidance for healthcare, retail, financial services, OT/ICS, data centres, and remote working environments


• Regulatory alignment across NIS2, PCI DSS v4.0, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, the UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, NIST CSF 2.0, and GDPR


• 12 operational playbooks: step-by-step response protocols for evil twin incidents, rogue AP discovery, nation-state-level wireless threats, IoT compromise, executive travel, and more


• Board governance language: how to present wireless risk, secure investment, and respond to the five most common board objections

Who this book is for:

Written for CISOs, security managers, IT architects, compliance officers, and governance professionals who need to build and defend a wireless security programme - and for the board-level executives who need to understand why it matters. Every chapter includes board-ready one-pagers, learning objectives, and regulatory anchors so the book works as a reference across the entire organisation.

Why this edition:

The Seventh Edition incorporates the 2024-2026 threat landscape: Salt Typhoon and carrier-scale wireless targeting by nation-state actors, the UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, NIS2 implementation across EU member states, Wi-Fi 7 security implications, and post-quantum cryptography planning for wireless infrastructure. Every chapter has been updated. Every learning objective is chapter-specific. Every regulatory anchor maps to the frameworks your auditors are using right now.

The airspace above your organisation is transmitting right now. The question is whether you are listening.