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BT Exact - Securing Wireless LANs

Overview Wireless LANs (WLANs) based on the IEEE 802.11 standard can provide mobility to corporate network users while maintaining the requisite connectivity to information resources. As laptop computers and personal digital assistants become more pervasive in the workplace, users will tend to use these devices as their primary computer, leading to greater portability for meetings, conferences and during business travel.WLANs offer organizations greater productivity per employee by providing constant connectivity to traditional networks in venues where previously unavailable. This paper summarizes a number of security weaknesses and vulnerabilities with the IEEE 802.11b based WLAN systems and offers alternative solutions to combat them.

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Publisher	BT Exact	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	October 2002	Downloads	126
Format	White Papers
Topics	Wireless LAN

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