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Critical infrastructure: securing wireless networks

Overview The Department of Homeland Security priorities has set guidelines for ensuring the mobile and wireless communications are secure and reliable, especially for first responders and law enforcement agencies. In fact, wireless is rapidly becoming critical infrastructure across federal, state and local agencies for telecommuting, setting up ad-hoc remote sites, ad hoc meetings and global communications. In this ZDNet audiocast, we outline strategies and guidelines for deploying and securing 802.11 wireless hot spots in government environments.

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Further White Paper Details
Publisher	ZDNet
Live Date	15th June 2005 00:00 BST
Format	Webcast
Topics	Network Design, Network Security, Performance Budgeting and Management, Procurement and Sourcing, Financial Management, Wi-Fi (802.11), Security Management, Human Capital Management, Enterprise Architecture, Quality of Service

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