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 ...

A man working for a digital media company in a WeWork building was able to view hundreds of documents belonging to other ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The recent proliferation of high-speed wireless portable devices has resulted in a significant demand for wireless LAN. While WLANs offer tremendous flexibility to the mobile user, compared with their ...

Today, wireless architecture has evolved to fit better with enterprise network management. The WLAN switch takes the burden of security off tiny, sweating CPUs in access points and places it squarely ...

Recent global events have emphasized the need for adequate security—both in the real world and in cyberspace. Hacking into a wireless 802.11b network is often easy. In fact, it's too easy. So how do ...

Cisco Systems Inc. has developed a new wireless LAN security protocol designed to defeat brute force dictionary attacks that capture a user’s passwords, and it submitted a draft of the protocol to the ...