ABSTRACT

Ronald Reagan’s famous rejoinder in the 1980 presidential debates — “There you go again” — applies equally well to wireless security. In the early days of personal computers, professional IT staff were alarmed at the uncontrolled, ad hoc, and unsecured networks that began to spring up. PCs were bought by users out of “miscellaneous supplies” budgets. The VP of Information Systems had no reliable inventory of these new devices; and certainly corporate data was not particularly secure or backed up on the primitive hard drives. Now, 20 years later, we have architectures and systems to control traditional networked systems.