To follow and recreate the practical exercises in this book you will need two laptops with built in Wi-Fi cards, a USB wireless Wi-Fi adapter, Kali Linux and some other hardware and software. We have detailed this in Chapter 1, Wireless Lab Setup.

As an alternate to the two laptops, you could also create a Virtual Machine housing Kali Linux and connect the card to it over the USB interface. This will help you get started with using this book much faster, but we would recommend a dedicated machine running Kali Linux for actual assessments in the field.

From a prerequisite perspective, readers should be aware of the basics of wireless networks. This includes having prior knowledge about the basics of the 802.11 protocol and client-access point communication. Though we will briefly touch upon some of this when we setup the lab, it is expected that the user is already aware of these concepts.