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 ...

A useful free document, one not requiring registration and having 162 pages, is “Establishing Wireless Robust Security Networks: A Guide to IEEE 802.11i,” which is Special Publication 800-97 from the ...

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 ...

Members of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) standards board will meet on Thursday to vote on the final specification for 802.11i, an update to the current standard for ...

Wi-Fi has been in the enterprise for more than a decade now, but security on older wireless hardware has been lacking. This guide will help you map a migration to greatly enhanced IEEE 802.11i-based ...

The IEEE late last month formally approved the long-awaited 802.11i extension to the 802.11 wireless LAN standard for more robust security. The Wi-Fi Alliance is expected to begin vendor product ...

Benjamin Franklin was undoubtedly thinking of 802.11b when he famously said those who would sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither. The convenience and low price of wireless networks has lead ...

The implementation of a Chinese security standard for wireless networking could undermine efforts to develop a global standard for wireless LANs (WLANs) and drive up the cost of networking equipment ...

IEEE 802.11i is a Wireless Local Area Network standard in the IEEE 802.11 set of specifications. It is also labelled as WPA ™ (Wireless Protected Acce ...

The implementation of a Chinese security standard for wireless networking could undermine efforts to develop a global standard for wireless LANs (WLANs) and drive up the cost of networking equipment ...