NetFlash: Face-off: Dealing with rogue access points

Everyone agrees that rogue access points are an IT security manager’s nightmare. Employees, empowered by easy-to-install wireless LAN devices, are increasingly setting up these access points on corporate networks without giving security a thought and therefore opening those networks to, well, anyone. Where experts differ is on how to discover and deal with these rogue devices. In our Face-off, we pit Unisys’ Marvin Chartoff against Cap Gemini Ernst & Young’s Brian Boyland. Chartoff: You can get rogue access points under control http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/0112faceoffyes.html?net Boyland: No single scheme will work http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/0112faceoffno.html?net The forum http://www.nwfusion.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=1098

Everyone agrees that rogue access points are an IT security manager’s nightmare. Employees, empowered by easy-to-install wireless LAN devices, are increasingly setting up these access points on corporate networks without giving security a thought and therefore opening those networks to, well, anyone. Where experts differ is on how to discover and deal with these rogue devices. In our Face-off, we pit Unisys’ Marvin Chartoff against Cap Gemini Ernst & Young’s Brian Boyland.

Chartoff: You can get rogue access points under control

https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/0112faceoffyes.html?net

Boyland: No single scheme will work

https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/0112faceoffno.html?net

The forum

https://www.nwfusion.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=1098

Microsoft to offer free Unix-Windows integration tool

Today Microsoft is expected to give away software that helps integrate Unix with Windows. It also, coincidentally, will help you migrate your Unix apps to Windows as well. Whether this is something that will put a dent in Linux’s momentum remains to be seen.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0113microunix.html?net

Novell beefs up identity management wares, integrates with Web services

Novell Wednesday renamed its meta-directory technology and refocused the software as a key component of its identity management and Web services platform.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0114novid.html?net

Cisco unveils video wares

Cisco this week unveiled digital video products for cable operators designed to deliver video-on-demand (VoD) services. The new products consist of the standalone uMG9820 quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) Gateway and the uMG9850 QAM Module, which both serve as IP-to-MPEG-2 gateways between a Gigabit Ethernet transport network and a hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) cable network.

https://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2004/0114cisvid.html?net