FEATURE STORY Insights into the latest wireless LAN security issues Enterprise Security at Public Hotspots – Best Practices for Mobile Workers The growth of public Wi-Fi hotspots is creating a new headache for enterprise IT security managers. While this Wi-Fi pain doesn’t have to reach migraine proportions, enterprises must address the security risks that come from mobile workers connecting to public wireless LANs at places like Starbucks, McDonald’s, airports, hotels and all places in between. Even enterprises that delay in deploying wireless LANs in their offices should assume that mobile workers are using their enterprise-owned laptops with consumer-grade wireless LAN cards to connect to home wireless LANs and public hotspots ... read more   Click to Read the Full Story.

WLAN Security Highlights Industry News from leading information providers META Group Slams WLAN Suppliers on Security (eSecurityPlanet.com - Aug. 1, 2003) Suppliers of wireless LAN products are falling short in their efforts to deliver highly secure products that are interoperable with those of other vendors, according to a recently released report from the Meta Group.  Three years after initial concerns about wireless LAN security were raised, achieving a highly secure enterprise wireless LAN remains a challenge. Suppliers are confusing the market by offering products that are complex and costly to implement and support ... read more Hackers Own All Wi-Fi Hotspot Data (Vnunet.com - Aug. 11, 2003) No unencrypted data passing over public access Wi-Fi hotspots is safe from the prying eyes of hackers using simple packet sniffing tools, industry analysts have claimed. According to analyst the Butler Group, existing security measures built into 802.11x wireless infrastructures is simply not good enough to protect data ... read more Securing the Military's PX WLANs (WiFi Planet - Aug. 11) An army, they say, marches on its stomach. Which is one reason the U.S. military's Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA), the outfit that runs camp PXs where soldiers and their families shop for groceries, is such a big and well-run enterprise. DeCA manages 276 stores and several distribution centers around the world. It runs them in most ways not much differently than any forward-thinking commercial grocery chain. That means, for example, that it has used 802.11 technology since 1996 -- well before the current 11-Mbps 802.11b standard ... read more WLAN Security Blues (Unstrung - Aug. 22, 2003) As the SoBig virus continues to rip through the Internet, security firms are highlighting the ways that viruses could also be wirelessly transferred over 802.11 networks, many of which are still wide open to hacking and other malicious attacks ... read more More Wireless LAN Security News >