Why your wireless network needs a security policy

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Sye Loong Keoh, Imperial College, London, talks about the need for a policy-based approach to help make the wireless computing environment manageable and secure.

"There's a proliferation of wireless and mobile devices in our environment. These devices tend to have limited knowledge about each other. They don't know who they are going to interact with and who they're going to meet. They have to trust strangers to use their resources. How do they know who they're interacting with? Anybody can intercept the information you send. It's quite a rough wireless environment out there."

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Series producer: Barbara Finkelstein

Last updated May 20, 2008