Meru Networks has introduced a product suite designed to
protect wireless networks from security threats, while maintaining
the quality of service of applications.
Traditional wireless Lan services must disable security scanning
to serve voice and other services. However, Meru Networks'
Airshield 2.0 Security Suite can identify
mission-critical traffic on the network and, according to the
supplier, will maintain the quality of service requirements of
the application and continue to scan for rogue devices.
Wireless security threats include rogue access points
masquerading as part of the network, ad hoc networking, clients
associating and talking to unauthorised devices, and denial of
service attacks.
Rachna Ahlawat, principal analyst at Gartner, said that, from a
technical perspective, wireless Lans were now considered secure,
through the adoption of IEEE standards and native improvements to
the technology. However, issues of interoperability and security
still needed to be addressed.
"We have gone from thinking of offices as network nodes to
considering each employee as a node on a wired network. Now every
major physical item the company owns is becoming a node on a
wireless network," he said.
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