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Wireless &
Secure: Are You Protected?
Questions of the hour:
Can my company reap wireless returns without risking security havoc through
stolen data? What would it take to have wireless security, and what's the
journey like? A security roadmap has the answers.
Wow, wireless computing!
The ability to work without wires has captivated businesses from the industrial
heartland to Wall Street and beyond. Untethered from wires and cables,
warehouse and field-service technicians can enjoy productive new ways to
access data at the point of business activity.
What kinds of damage
occur?
Sniffing: Someone
viewing data from the outside. Perpetrators use "sniffing" tools to see
a company's wireless data and scoff up items like employee log-ins and
passwords.
Pirating: Intruders
break into the wireless network to use the company's Internet or e-mail
services.
Wireless Security Solutions
If interoperability was
resolved, innovative forms of snooping and data hijacking followed. Analysts
talked about wireless security as an inhibitor of wireless market growth.
Some fearful network managers avoided installing wireless, regardless of
benefits. Wireless security solutions today, however, are on a continuous-improvement
path. These include inroads in:
Authentication: Security
approach focusing on identifying a person, often based on user name and
password.
Encryption: Transformation
of data into a form unreadable by anyone without a decryption key, to ensure
privacy by keeping information hidden.
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and Maintenance
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