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Wireless connectivity can breed wireless insecurity
Wireless connectivity is a fact of life in today's corporate world, but leaving wireless devices connected indiscriminately and unchecked can expose your organization's confidential data and critical assets to the outside world. The key is finding a way to quickly discover and eliminate network infrastructure that poses a risk to the organization. The most dangerous are unauthorized devices connected to a wired network. These dangerous wireless devices consist of rogue access points (access points connected to the LAN without acknowledgment from the network administrator) and rogue peers (end-user computers that have both bridging and wireless enabled). Other security concerns come from other unauthorized network devices, such as web cameras connected to a LAN. Organizations should look for solutions that find and eliminate rogue devices that are easy to deploy and manage, not to mention cost-effective. These systems should identify and accurately classify each device and remedy the situation through Ethernet port disabling.
For more on protecting your networks against unauthorized wireless devices:
- read the article at Small Business Computing
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