Wireless LANs offer two things central to the adoption of communications technologies: reach and economy. Scalable end-user reach is gained without stringing wires, and the users themselves often feel ...

Wireless technologies continue to grow with no sign of slowing down. Today, companies need to understand the advances in wireless security standards so they can easily integrate wireless ...

An emerging standard in wireless security finally is giving IT departments a way to fend off key-sniffing hackers and users who install their own unauthorized access points. In At last, real wireless ...

When WEP's flaws became apparent, the wireless industry started developing new protocols to address the published weak points. These new protocols grew up around the IEEE 802.1x framework, which is a ...

Is there such a beast? I've got a heterogenious environment (Linux, Windows, Solaris, VMware) with laptops, workstations and servers, and it's time to implement 802.1x. I'll probably start with the ...

Last month, I covered the 802.11 wireless standard and the various options available for wireless networking. This time, let’s look at the principles of securing ...

Somehow I'm managed to navigate the whitepapers and all the good/bad advice out there with relatively little hassle have a working WPA/802.1x/PEAP implementation against an IAS server in our AD. I've ...

When connecting to an enterprise-secured network with Android devices, users are prompted with many settings that could be confusing. When connecting with iOS devices—an iPad, iPhone, or iPod ...

Implementing 802.1X authentication, which includes everything from setting up a RADIUS server to keeping end users connected, isn't easy. Implementing 802.1X authentication, which includes everything ...

802.1x Port-Based Security Once the weaknesses in WEP became clear, the industry set to work to produce an improved method for protecting authentication transactions and securely exchanging WEP keys.