Meeting wireless LAN security concerns: Industry Research Report

Meeting wireless LAN security concerns

Published Date: January 2006

Published By: Datamonitor

Page Count: 18

Order Code: R313-14261

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ABOUT DATAMONITOR 2
ACTION POINTS 4
Outline of the brief 4
4 key things you need to know about meeting wireless LAN security concerns 4
1. Vendors should focus more of their education efforts on convincing their European customers that security risks can be mitigated. 5
Regional variances 5
2. Solution providers should encourage customers to develop granular wLAN security policies to supplement the technologies they deploy to ensure more complete protection against wLAN threats. 7
Profiting from the need for wLAN security best-practice 9
3. More security measures are needed to shield mobile wLAN hotspot users against spoofed hotspots. 10
Spoofed access points 10
Understanding the threats is the best way to protect against them 11
4. Vendors should do more to promote a greater use of more advanced security solutions and avoid a fresh wave of embarrassing security breaches 12
CONCLUSIONS 15
APPENDIX 16

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