Wireless technologies continue to grow with no sign of slowing down. Today, companies need to understand the advances in wireless security standards so they can easily integrate wireless ...

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.1x standard is and why you should care means understanding three separate concepts: PPP, EAP and 802.1x itself. Point-to-Point Protocol ...

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 ...

This issue, one in a short series of primers on deploying wireless LAN security, will begin discussing the task of selecting an authentication method to use in your Wi-Fi security scheme. WLAN ...

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 ...

Last month, I covered the 802.11 wireless standard and the various options available for wireless networking. This time, let’s look at the principles of securing ...

Somehow I'm managed to navigate the whitepapers and all the good/bad advice out there with relatively little hassle have a working WPA/802.1x/PEAP implementation against an IAS server in our AD. I've ...

When connecting to an enterprise-secured network with Android devices, users are prompted with many settings that could be confusing. When connecting with iOS devices—an iPad, iPhone, or iPod ...

Find out how WPA and WPA2 improve upon WEP's encryption methods for better wireless security. The previous tip in this series on wireless encryption methods explained how WEP works. By 2001, hacker ...

802.1x Port-Based Security Once the weaknesses in WEP became clear, the industry set to work to produce an improved method for protecting authentication transactions and securely exchanging WEP keys.