In the 1994 film Renaissance Man, Danny DeVito describes Military Intelligence as an oxymoron. Who would have thought that eight years later many would be making the same criticism of wireless security? At the heart of the problem is the slow rate at which most corporate security policies and solutions actually develop, and the way that 'mobile' is viewed within businesses.
For many in the IT industry, the definition of a mobile worker has barely changed in a decade: it's someone with a laptop computer who, when arriving at their home/hotel, plugs a computer into a telephone socket and connects to the office either by direct dial-up or across the internet.
So it's not surprising that security solutions rely heavily on traditional techniques such as authentication servers using a username and password, although we have begun to see more attention paid to the virtual private network (VPN) technologies that create a secure channel between the mobile computer and the corporate IT systems, through which all data is transmitted.
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