Wireless mobile computing security could jump ahead a few steps once new research efforts by vendors and the national defense department are completed. The pilot program called the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is being undertaken by Aruba Networks and Dartmouth College researchers who are developing a new software architecture that would better protect wireless networks from attack.
For more on the wireless security effort:
- read the story [1] at NetworkWorld
Related Article: The insecurities of mobile computing. Article [2]
Links:
[1] http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/120706-intelligent-scaleable-wlan-defense-darpa.html
[2] http://www.fiercecio.com/story/the-insecurities-of-mobile-computing/2006-11-21