Wireless and Mobile Security: Something Old, Something New
Letter From the Editor
Regina Casonato  Arabella Hallawell 
16 August 2002

As a result of the explosion of mobile devices, cellular phones and 802.11 standard-based wireless LAN (WLAN) implementations, wireless and mobile security has received a lot of popular attention. However, it is not a new problem. Dial-up remote access is an old-fashioned technology that has caused problems for enterprises for several years. Unauthorized remote access is easy for mobile users to set up and hard for IT managers to discover.

WLAN is a mature technology that has been commercially available in the United States (and in most other countries) since 1989. Wireless and mobile security issues have been addressed in a lot of Gartner research published in the past decade. It was more difficult to secure the initial wave of WLAN technology than it is to secure current WLAN technology. Deploying secure WLANs is now a process and procedure issue, not a technology challenge.       Read More


  
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