Many organizations have put off the deployment of IEEE 802.1X authentication for years while waiting for networking and computing vendors to make it easier. Earlier this year, the IT team at Brigham ...

IEEE's wireless security amendment adds stronger encryption, authentication, and key management strategies that go a long way toward guaranteeing data and system security. With the falling cost and ...

Meetinghouse Data Communications is making available a free, downloadable network authentication software package for Linux operating systems. The client-side or supplicant software package ...

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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 ...

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 ...

802.1X is maturing, but it will take a skilled network technician to configure it in products across any large deployment. While previous iLabs security-based testing focused strictly on how the IEEE ...

Let me preface all of this by stating that I have ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA WHAT I'M DOING. That, however, doesn't mean that management cares. We have a whole bunch of 3550s all over the office, and I've ...

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 ...

Anyone developing wireless LAN (WLAN) systems knows the security problem created by the wired equivalency protocol (WEP). The bigger issue designers must wrestle with is how to solve the problems ...