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March 8, 2004

Netgear Balks on WPA Certification for Some Gear

By Nancy Gohring

Just after the Wi-Fi Alliance touted how many companies have received certification for the WPA security specification, some vendors are suggesting they may not seek certification for some products: Going forward, the Wi-Fi Alliance requires WPA for any product to be certified. Netgear said that while it plans to certify ts products that target business users, the company is not sure if it will submit its consumer devices for certification because consumers are happy with the more basic security mechanisms.

This story points to Belkin and SMC as other vendors that haven’t certified their gear. But Belkin says that its products support WPA but just haven’t been certified yet.

Netgear is the only company this story cites as balking on certifying some of its gear to meet WPA requirements. The Wi-Fi Alliance bragged in February that 175 products had been certified for WPA since September 2003. While it would be a concern if a bunch of vendors were holding out on WPA, Netgear alone doesn’t prove that such a trend is happening. With all the buzz around the lack of security in Wi-Fi, I would think that most vendors will want to offer as much security as possible to reassure nervous potential users.

Posted by nancyg at March 8, 2004 9:46 AM

Categories: Security

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