How Banning Wireless Reduces Security
IDC’s research director, Lars Vestergaard, said their research found interest by businesses in WLAN usage was widespread, but not many of them were particularly interested. “Unfortunately IT managers are being uncertain about using this technology, but they use a lot of bad excuses,” he said. “This is because they often fear a lack of security as well as an increase in transaction costs, for example, having to spend a lot of time and money on introducing the technology to new users.
As a result, businesses get ad-hoc installations of wireless by employees who don’t know how to secure it, and aren’t willing to go to the IT department for help. Read the article by Laura Berrill at Techworld. (Via SecurityFocus’s Elsewhere.)