Wavelink Advances Wireless LAN Security

Kirkland, Wash. - Recognizing that improved security of wireless local area networks of wireless devices is a critical need, Wavelink Corp. has develop a pair of solutions that address Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) key rotation and the robust detection of rogue access points.

The WEP key rotation solution, already in trials at a major financial services firm and a national retailer, reduces the known vulnerabilities of WEP in the IEEE 802.11a and 802.11b standards by automating the rotation of WEP keys before a hacker has time to collect sufficient data to break the encryption. The solution works with or without an authentication server, and in single- and multi-vendor environments.

The rogue access point detection scheme the company has developed uses existing wireless LAN resources to constantly monitor airwaves for unauthorized users while simultaneously surveying wired network traffic for activity from unauthorized wireless devices. It supports the deactivation of rogue access points from a central management console. These unauthorized access points that operate undetected on a wireless LAN represent a particularly dangerous security breach because of their ability to provide direct, unauthorized access to information on an organization's wired network.

Wavelink's WEP key rotation solution is currently available as an enhancement to Wavelink's current products, Mobile Manager 5.0 and Wavelink Avalanche 3.0. Existing customers can receive the new security features as a software upgrade. The rogue access point detection solution will also be a software enhancement to the existing products and will be available in the Fall of 2002.

For more information, go to www.wavelink.com