September 2002

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Insights into the latest wireless LAN security issues

5 Practical Steps to Secure Your Wireless LAN

The many risks associated with wireless LANs have made headlines in the last year, but security conscious enterprises are deploying secure wireless LANs by implementing a few practical steps to protect their information assets, identify vulnerabilities and protect their networks from wireless specific attacks. Click here to read more.

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Education Series

AirDefense offers a series of wireless security education programs to fit your needs

Ad Hoc Wireless LANs: The Risks of Peer-to-Peer Networking

Peer-to-peer, ad hoc wireless LANs between laptops, PDAs and other devices allow two or more stations to communicate directly with each other without an access point routing their traffic. However, ad hoc networks can open your stations to be directly attacked and used as a conduit to the network. Click here to read more.

Free 3-hour Live Seminar -- Hack-Proof Your Wireless LAN

A series of free wireless LAN security seminars across the United States cover wireless LAN security challenges, major security vulnerabilities, live demonstrations of wireless attacks and specific steps you can take to hack-proof your wireless LAN. Seminar attendees are given the opportunity to interact with wireless security experts and see first hand a variety of wireless LAN security solutions, including the latest in encryption, authentication, wireless VPNs, vulnerability assessment and intrusion detection. Click here for more information.

2-day Hands-on Training -- WLAN Security Bootcamp

For IT professionals looking for hands-on training in wireless LAN security, AirDefense offers a comprehensive 2-day course that combines classroom presentations with interactive lab exercises to provide practical, in-depth understanding of the latest tools, techniques and leading edge security products.

More importantly, you will learn about layered approaches to security that you can adopt to secure a WLAN. This training teaches you how to detect reconnaissance activities of intruders and impending attacks. It covers a range of tools and solutions to actively defend against intruders and attacks. Experts introduce and explain real-life case studies from companies in multiple industries. More than half of the training is spent in our lab conducting hands-on exercises. Click here for more information.

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WLAN Security Highlights

Articles from leading information providers

WLAN With No Plan Spells Failure

(ZD NET/ META Group)

A wireless LAN is inherently different from its wired counterpart. Don't let headaches caused by lackluster coverage and security stymie your WLAN rollout

http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2879649,00.html

Wireless Spec No Security Elixir

(eWeek)

A new WLAN security specification is gaining momentum in the marketplace, with several vendors set to announce new products that use the technology. However, experts warn that the specification, 802.1x, has unresolved problems and should not be considered a panacea for the security ills plaguing wireless LANs. http://sdm3.rm04.net/servlet/ClickThru?k=eweek&m=73497&r=MjEyOTM5ODQS1

Starting Over With Wireless LAN Security

(Computerworld)

Eliminating rogue access points is easy compared with negotiating policy for a secure wireless LAN infrastructure.

http://computerworld.com/mobiletopics/mobile/technology/story/0,10801,73998,00.html

Microsoft, Cisco Prepare for PEAP Show

(NetworkWorld)

Microsoft and Cisco are expected to detail how they will support an emerging IETF wireless security standard for authentication that could quash a competing standards effort. http://sdm3.rm04.net/servlet/ClickThru?k=networkworld&m=73497&r=MjEyOTM5ODQS1

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Interested in learning more about wireless LAN security? Request the Wireless LAN Security: Risks & Defenses white paper.

Quotes about AirDefense:

"AirDefense has introduced a comprehensive approach to WLAN security that provides vulnerability assessment and intrusion detection" -- Pete Lindstrom, The Hurwitz Group

"AirDefense torpedoes wireless threats" -- InfoWorld

AirDefense offers "a new approach to the problem of WLAN security by applying the concepts of intrusion detection and constant monitoring to Wi-Fi deployments" -- eWeek

To learn more about wireless LAN security, click here to request the AirDefense Wireless LAN Security: Risks & Defenses white paper.