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January 19, 2004

Cisco Offers Some Poor Advice

By Nancy Gohring

The migration from current generation security methods to the future isn’t smooth: While moving from WEP to WPA was easy enough, the upgrade to 802.11i in many cases will require new hardware. That presents a conundrum to businesses that may want to expand their networks but may not want to buy current generation products. Cisco’s solution: don’t plan on using 802.11i. A Cisco spokesman in this article recommends that in retail sales or warehouse environments where there isn’t much worry about sniffing, users might consider not using 802.11i. On what planet is sniffing not a concern for retail or any location? Perhaps he missed the big news about the WLAN at a Lowe’s store being broken into and customer credit card information being stolen. While it’s not clear how much security that network used, it proves there’s certainly a reason to secure retail WLANs.

This story also looks at the break between Cisco and Microsoft that has resulted in two incompatible versions of PEAP.

Posted by nancyg at January 19, 2004 9:58 AM

Categories: Security

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