Manufacturers have tried to make setting up a basic wireless network as close as possible to a turnkey operation — the Ethernet equivalent of starting your car. In at least some cases, however, they ...

Many of your customers may have resisted deploying wireless networking solutions because of security concerns. They know that an improperly configured wireless local area network (WLAN) can open their ...

Wireless networks are nearly everywhere nowadays in the public sector. State and local governments nationwide have fervently pursued them for so long that it's unusual to find an agency or ...

Here are Part I and Part II. Here is an overview of the steps you'll go through in this section: As previously mentioned, routers from the same manufacturers all come with the same password. Although ...

Vanessa Jo Roberts is editorial director of BizTech magazine. She’s been covering technology since the days when data was shared via “sneakernet.” As the Government Accountability Office notes in a ...

Mike Chapple is associate teaching professor of IT, analytics and operations at the University of Notre Dame. With cyberthreats becoming more prevalent, agencies need to ensure that the security ...

We’re left with the question: How do you secure your WLAN? We’re left with the question: How do you secure your WLAN? If you are starting from scratch and have no legacy equipment to contend with, the ...

Founder of the Jericho Forum and global information security director Paul Simmonds criticised wireless vendors' approach to security in a panel discussion at the ZDNet IT Priorities Conference in ...

META Trend: The campus/LAN will become increasingly application aware (2003/04), as products incorporate expanded services such as quality of service, security, and user-based policy. By YE02, 75% of ...

Increasingly, computer users interested in convenience and mobility are accessing the Internet wirelessly. Today, business travelers use wireless laptops to stay in touch with the home office; ...

Wireless networks are a bit like cell phones. Your cell phone ties to find the closest cell tower so that you can get the most bars of signal strength to have high-quality voice calls. Wireless NICs ...

Congratulations! You’ve taken the big step and installed a wireless network in your home. No doubt you know by now that the great thing about wireless networks is ...