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Secure Wireless LAN - Hackers don't have a chance

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The communications requirement:

Secure Remote Access to the central data network via wireless LANs.

An increasing number of WLANs are being installed at corporate sites, on university campuses, and at hotspots. Here are a few examples:

• PC workstations on the corporate campus that do not have a permanent local area network connection
• Employees in vehicles who are underway on the corporate campus
• Students on a university campus
• Mobile data acquisition via PDAs, for instance in warehouses or production facilities
• Physician's visits in hospitals using tablet PCs
• Workers at public WLANs (hotspots), who dial into the corporate network via PDA, laptop, or notebook.

NCP Secure Communications via WLANs offers the following range of services:

• End-to-end security between mobile client and central gateway, e.g. independence from the manufacturer of the WLAN components and his level of security
• Optional use of electronic certificates (as soft certificates, on smart cards or USB tokens) in a PKI.
• WLAN roaming - no connection disconnect during a session when moving between two or more access points of a WLAN infrastructure
• Your end device is not subject to attacks, either from other WLAN participants, or from the Internet
• The remote PC work environment is identical to that of the office workstation