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Taking control of your airwaves: four leading packages show great restraint in tethering your wireless environments.(BCR Best-in-Test)(Buyers Guide)

Business Communications Review, October, 2004 by Mier, Edwin E.; Mier, David C.; Tarpley, Robert B.

One early casualty of the Wi-Fi revolution has been security. Unmonitored and unchecked, wireless may be extending your network to locations you never knew or intended, leaving security holes big enough to drive a bus through. A new class of "wireless security systems" has emerged in response.

And that's what BCR and Miercom, in this latest Best-in-Test review, sought to evaluate. So what do these products do? Our research distilled five key wireless-oriented, security-related functions that these systems address, albeit to varying degrees: 1. Authenticating wireless users; that is, making sure wireless clients are authorized, and are who they say they are. 2. Defending the "wired" network from threats that may enter through wireless LAN...

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