Worries about rogue access points and unauthorized users also plague customers, said Bruce Ligerman, president of LogiTel USA, a solution provider in New York. "It could be just someone who wants wireless access in a conference room for the day all the way to malicious hackers," Ligerman said.
Even those customers who have gone ahead with WLAN rollouts haven't always thought through security issues in advance, said Dave Bullis, president and CEO of Wavelink, a mobile infrastructure management vendor in Kirkland, Wash.
"Many who have had wireless infrastructure for some time are just now realizing how important [security] is," Bullis said. This creates vast service opportunities for solution providers to use tools such as Wavelink Managed Security to help customers set WLAN security policies and put them in place, he said.
Wavelink Managed Security is an integrated system for deploying, securing, monitoring and managing WLAN deployments, including network infrastructure and the mobile devices that connect to it.
Wavelink's suite is hardware-agnostic, offering centralized WLAN infrastructure and management of security issues such as intrusions, rogue access points, policy mismatches and denial-of-service attacks for multivendor WLAN deployments. It supports the 802.1x IEEE standard for port-based network-access control and a variety of authentication techniques, including Transport Layer Security, Tunneled Transport Layer Security and Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol.
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