In the security and wireless networking world, 802.1x is a big deal. This is the Layer 2 protocol that enables device authentication. The protocol helps keep war drivers off wireless networks and is ...

Meetinghouse Data Communications is making available a free, downloadable network authentication software package for Linux operating systems. The client-side or supplicant software package ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. This past August, the Defense Department officially launched its first enterprise cybersecurity program since 2012: Comply-to-Connect, ...

Is there such a beast? I've got a heterogenious environment (Linux, Windows, Solaris, VMware) with laptops, workstations and servers, and it's time to implement 802.1x. I'll probably start with the ...

If I implement 802.1X on my Ethernet switch ports, do I still have to worry about rogue access points? Rogue access points are like cockroaches; they’re everywhere, they’re impossible to get rid of, ...

When WEP's flaws became apparent, the wireless industry started developing new protocols to address the published weak points. These new protocols grew up around the IEEE 802.1x framework, which is a ...

As an authentication standard for wired networks, 802.1X has a happy side effect when used with WLANs: It gives you per-user, per-session WEP keys. As an authentication standard for wired networks, ...

The What: LEA Professional is strengthening network security with its new 802.1X security protocol for the company's range of Connect Series amplifiers. The What Else: 802.1X is an IEEE Standard for ...

Anyone developing wireless LAN (WLAN) systems knows the security problem created by the wired equivalency protocol (WEP). The bigger issue designers must wrestle with is how to solve the problems ...