But assuming a corporate policy is successfully implemented there are hazards for those away from their desks. The need for end-to-end security and users' laziness are the key obstacles blocking widespread adoption of Wi-Fi wireless LAN technology...
Indeed those who have implemented such a comprehensive approach generally tell us that their existing measures and policies for protecting laptops and notebooks are "definitely" or "probably" adequate for dealing with wireless access.
However, to share identity between sites on the web and between servers inside a company only three options currently exist: the security assertion markup language (SAML) 1.1, the WS-Security standard or the Liberty Alliance's standard, which has...
At a five-day testing event in Tokyo, the products proved they conform to interoperability standards for Liberty Federation, the Alliance's specifications for open federated identity (Liberty ID-FF 1.2 and/or SAML 2.0).
One example of this idea in action is global real estate adviser Cushman & Wakefield, which has implemented a wi-fi visitor network in its European headquarters in Portman Square, London. Unwired's Richard Leyland has the latest.
Skype, IM and P2P were all new once, though many people have still not implemented rules for these. But policy can also get in the way, when implemented poorly. Have you heard the one about the financial services organisation whose employees had a...