A wireless network in your business gives your team the convenience of being able to use their mobile devices or computers from anywhere in your building. Unfortunately, without the proper security, ...

Makers of 802.11 wireless LAN clients now can make their products support special security features offered in Cisco wireless networks under Cisco Compatible Extensions (CCX), a licensing and testing ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology, the federal agency responsible for defining security standards and practices for the government, plans to issue new guidelines pertaining to ...

WPA brings several security improvements to the airwaves. WPA uses Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP), which replaces WEP's 40-bit static key with a 128-bit dynamically assigned key. That ...

IT managers tend to look at wireless local area networks, or WLANs, much like adults view groups of loud teenagers — with at least a little bit of trepidation and sometimes some fear as well. That’s ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. The Wi-Fi Alliance will use its pull in the industry to ...

During the past few weeks, I’ve dedicated a significant amount of time to creating wireless LAN (WLAN) policies and standards. A WLAN site survey I conducted a few weeks ago convinced me to accelerate ...

Let me start off by saying that there is absolutely no way achieve total security in a WLAN. By deploying a WLAN in a network, you are increasing your security risks over a purely wired network.

Over the past few years, a significant penetration of Voice over IP (VoIP) systems has occurred in both enterprise and residential markets. VoIP enables the convergence of data and voice networks into ...

According to research from analyst house Gartner, 70 percent of successful WLAN attacks could be prevented if the access points and client software are properly set up. Its research also found that if ...

It turns out that not all WLAN switch vendors see their devices as both wired and wireless security aggregates. Trapeze allowed for full 802.1x wire-speed functionality, but Aruba designates its ...

Cisco faced its second serious WLAN security threat this week when a network and security analyst released a tool that attacks the company's proprietary Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol ...