Secure Wi-Fi standard in 12 months
Source: ZDNet UK
Wireless network hardware manufacturers are keen to embrace a new security standard, but 802.11i will take another year before it is signed off
Wi-Fi product makers are lining up to lend support to a new security standard, as they try to allay concerns about transmitting data over wireless networks.
Earlier this week, an industry group called the Wi-Fi Alliance announced the certification of products using the latest security specification, Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA). The lack of a security standard has been one of the chief obstacles in the adoption of wireless networking technology within the business market.
WPA is the third specification related to Wi-Fi to receive certification from the Wi-Fi Alliance for interoperability, which means that approved products are supposed to work with each other no matter which company manufactured the product.
