"The results of a new study from research firm IDC offer a strong thumbs-up to the fast-evolving information security services sector, predicting that the market for such services will increase to more than $23.5 billion in the next four years."
Gotta love the folks at IDC for coming up with big, happy numbers. There have been predictions of big SS growth in the past that haven't quite panned out as expected though, so take this number with a grain of salt. Even so, I do agree there's growth coming in the sector, just perhaps not the very rosy 20% that IDC is predicting.
"First-generation wireless networking placed you between a rock and a hard place. Should you cave in and deploy a WLAN, despite well-documented protocol vulnerabilities and rampant threats? Or should you try to ban wireless, despite its business advantages and the unnerving suspicion that rogue access points (APs) will crop up anyway?"
Check out Lisa Phifer's excellent primer on WLAN security, the feature article in this month's InfoSec Mag. If you don't know anything about WLAN security, it's a great starting point and if you do, you never know, you just might learn something new.
"The Wi-Fi Alliance, guardian of 802.11 wireless networking interoperability, has announced the first set of products that meet its Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) security specification.
WPA, a subset of the 801.11i WLAN security specification, is set to replace the creaky Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) scheme used by wireless clients and base-stations to encrypt data to date. 802.11i is due to be ratified as a standard by the IEEE next year."
Hmmm, creaky- crackable, yes. Note that this is just an announcement, the actual products won't ship until next month. WPA is a good thing, it does require a firmware upgrade, but is compatible with existing WEP products. Good news for enterprises that have already invested in Wi-Fi products. 802.11i will require new hardware.