Wireless Security

As with other networks, security for Wireless focuses on access control and privacy. Robust Wireless access control, also called authentication, prevents unauthorized users from communicating through access points. Strong Wireless access control measures help ensure that legitimate client stations associate only with trusted access points rather than rogue or unauthorized access points.

Wireless privacy helps ensure that only the intended audience understands the transmitted data. The privacy of transmitted Wireless data is considered protected when that data is encrypted with a key that can be used only by the intended recipient of the data. Encrypting data helps ensure that it remains uncorrupted throughout the sending-and-receiving transmission process.

Today, companies use Wireless networks by employing four distinct security solutions to address Wireless access control and privacy: open access, basic security, enhanced security, and remote access security. As with any security deployment, we perform a network risk assesment with the client, before selecting and implementing any wireless security solution...