Securing Ad-Hoc WLANs

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By Jeff Vance Wireless LAN security has come a long way in the past few years. 802.11's initial, flawed encryption standard, WEP, has been replaced by WPA and 802.11i, and a slew of new wireless security products have recently entered the market. The problem is that most of these products, such as WLAN switches and rogue access point (AP) monitors, target the large enterprise market, while the majority of new wireless users actually fall into the SOHO (small office, home office)...n

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