Guardent, SafeNet respond to WLAN security hole
Guardent, SafeNet respond to WLAN security hole. IDG Aug 20 2001 3:55AM ET
Guardent will announce this week its 802.11 Wireless Security Assessment service, a testing system that involves mimicking attacks on the access points in customers’ WLANs to find potential cracks and make recommendations, said Jamie Fullerton, senior research scientist at Waltham, Mass.-based Guardent.
Rick Geritz, president of Baltimore-based SafeNet, said customers can shore up WEP holes by implementing the IPsec standard for VPN clients in a WLAN environment. This creates a VPN for transmitting wireless encrypted packets. SafeNet has tested its current SoftRemote offering and will announce this week that SoftRemote can perform this function.
[via Computer security news]
