This webcast will explain what this directive means to all government agencies and what steps they can take to ensure compliance with this policy. Hear from WLAN security experts and practitioners who draw upon real case studies to discuss deployment of risk-free wireless LANs and adherence to the DoD directive in their organizations.

With the growing use of personal digital assistants and wireless LANs, enterprises must develop updated security policies and implement monitoring solutions that address the needs of the mobile workplace, according to analyst firm Gartner who addressed audiences at the June Gartner IT Security Summit.  At the top of the list Gartner suggests installing a dedicated wireless intrusion detection system.

Gartner notes the advantage to vendor-independent dedicated monitoring is that all WLAN traffic can be detected regardless of the equipment and vendors involved.

"Businesses should use sniffers to demonstrate potential exposure problems to management, especially to the management that funds security problems," said John Pescatore, vice president and Gartner fellow. "Sniffer walks should not be attempted as an ongoing survey method, but should be kept on standby. If rogue WLAN activity is detected by network monitoring systems, individual members of the IT staff can be dispatched, to act as trackers, to hone in on unauthorized signal sources.

AirDefense, the wireless security monitoring company out of Atlanta, Georgia pioneered the independent wireless intrusion detection market and now provides the most advanced solutions for analysis of who is connected to the network and the status of each station and access point. Additional product features include identification of network security policy violations and monitoring the wireless LAN for performance. "