Wireless security across government networks
Wireless connectivity has clear benefits: It eliminates the massive costs and delays of trenching for fiber, reduces installation and deployment costs and delays, deploys virtually anywhere, and is easily scalable.
While the advantages offered by wireless networks are clear, governments cannot overlook the threats they can introduce. Built-in wireless security has proven vulnerable to attack due to inherent flaws in security mechanisms. As a result, customers are becoming more concerned about confidentiality, integrity, and reliability. Threats to the information moving across wireless local area networks (LANs) include passive attacks based on statistical analysis to decrypt traffic, as well as active attacks that can inject new traffic from unauthorized mobile platforms.
As users increasingly demand security without impacting performance requirements, Thales DataCryptor network encryptors can meet these challenges. They enable organizations to securely and cost-effectively expand LAN connectivity across a physical plant or campus.
Datacryptors can be employed to address the vulnerabilities inherent in the Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) protocol currently offered in IEEE 802.11 applications and point-to-point free space optics applications.