If the challenge of securing a wireless LAN wasn't already confusing enough, things have just gotten worse. The confusion started last month when the Wi-Fi Alliance changed the WPA and WPA2 standards ...

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 ...

In a thread elsewhere about wireless connection problems with a particular adapter, someone recommended looking at certain Services settings, and one of them was the one in the thread title. That ...

This short primer will provide a few guidelines to consider when choosing an Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) method, one element of the authentication component of your Wi-Fi security plan.

What is the best EAP type to use when setting up an enterprise WLAN? Selecting the appropriate Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) method for your wireless network is a pivotal security decision ...

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META Trend: The campus/LAN will become increasingly application aware (2003/04), as products incorporate expanded services such as quality of service, security, and user-based policy. By YE02, 75% of ...

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 ...

Certificate misconfigurations of the EAP protocol in Eduroam (and likely other networks globally) threaten Android and Windows users. Multiple configuration flaws in a free Wi-Fi network used by ...

BANGALORE: Cisco Systems acknowledged security problems with its proprietary Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol (LEAP) and has released a new security protocol, that it said eliminates the ...

eSpeaks host Corey Noles sits down with Qualcomm's Craig Tellalian to explore a workplace computing transformation: the rise of AI-ready PCs. Matt Hillary, VP of Security and CISO at Drata, details ...

Let’s start with a look at the EAP over LAN (EAPOL) mechanism defined in 802.1x. Figure 2 shows a standard EAP transaction, in which a client, called a peer, negotiates an authentication protocol with ...