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WAP security 'provides best wireless protection'
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Businesses have been urged to ensure their wireless network connections are as safe and secure as possible in order to avoid data breaches. According to government and business-sponsored advice website GetSafeOnline.org, internet threats can be best defended against by using Wi-Fi Protected Access (WAP) security. "We have to make ourselves as secure as possible so its 99.999 per cent secure. You can do this with a wireless network if you put the right security on it," said Tony Neate, managing director of the advice website. He explained that the first security protection that came out was called Wired Equivalency Privacy and had enough complexity for the early days of the internet. However Mr Neate compared those wireless security measures as being like "a two lever lock, like the lock you would have on the internal doors in your house". "What you want on your house is a five lever lock, and that is the difference between Wired Equivalency Privacy and WAP," he urged. Without these protections, Mr Neate suggested that firms could be left open to dangers including eavesdropping on internet voice calls, hacking of sensitive company information or the use of the firm's broadband connection by people outside of the organisation. Azzurri is delivering flexible networks that give organisations agility and value for money.  |