Wireless LANs offer two things central to the adoption of communications technologies: reach and economy. Scalable end-user reach is gained without stringing wires, and the users themselves often feel ...

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 ...

Providing best-practice solutions to address threats and to maintain a secure and accessible wireless network, this book endorses the principle that the best strategy is to deploy multiple layers of ...

Implementing and supporting 802.1X authentication on your network can be a challenge, but here are some tips that can help save you some time, money, and frustration. 1. Consider a Free or Low-Cost ...

802.1X is maturing, but it will take a skilled network technician to configure it in products across any large deployment. While previous iLabs security-based testing focused strictly on how the IEEE ...

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 ...

802.1X uses EAP on encrypted point-to-point networks to send information between a supplicant and authentication server. Unlike other authentication protocols in which a client requests authentication ...

In the network access control products we tested, authentication varies from very strong to very weak, and every point in-between. When starting down your path of evaluating NAC products, decide very ...

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 ...

Service provider takeaway: A common problem with 802.1x port-based authentication systems is when the supplicant is missing or inoperative. Learn tips on how to diagnose and solve these problems.

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 ...