Is your organisation using internal wi-fi for routine data transmission?Are your executives processing business information at home using wi-fi?
Are your laptop holders accessing wi-fi hotspots in hotels, airports and railway stations?
Are you transmitting CCTV images over wi-fi?
"WEP (wired equivalent privacy), the basic security encryption for wi-fi networks is so broken that your (and everyone else's) kid sister can easily circumvent it," according to computer security researcher Ralf-Philipp Weinmann, co-author of the aircrack-ptw tool that can crack WEP in minutes.
WPA-2, a much stronger encryption, is available, but there is a tendency in businesses to stick with WEP as not all wi-fi devices are WPA-2 compliant.
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