Best practices in WLAN security hinge on your specific security needs and the technologies you choose to satisfy those needs. Not long ago, the complaint heard about wireless LAN security was that ...

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 ...

MANHASSET, N.Y. — The already competitive wireless LAN (WLAN) security market heated up with product launches from Highwall Technologies and AirTight Networks. Highwall announced the release of the ...

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 ...

Despite the ratification of key wireless standards, the actual use of stronger security mechanisms in current WLAN deployments is low, reports In-Stat. That may soon change, however, as many companies ...

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 ...

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.

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

COMMENTARY--Wireless communication has dramatically changed the way people work and interact. Unfortunately, the wireless era also continues to be plagued by insufficient security, and both ...

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 ...

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 ...