In the continuous effort to strengthen wireless network security, Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) represents a significant turning point. Data transmission over airwaves is becoming increasingly common in the ever-expanding digital connection landscape, making transmission security critical. WPA was created in ...
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Mobile devices like phones, tablets, and laptops are being used for work more than ever, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic. Remote work and hybrid workplaces are the new normal, making mobile devices ubiquitous in enterprise settings. Mobile devices improve employee ...
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A Certificate Authority (CA) is the entity that handles the certificate distribution for a PKI. Certificate Authorities assist in validating the identities of different websites, individuals, and devices by providing a trusted source for certificates. Certificate authorities are a key ...
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Wifi Protected Access 2 – Pre-Shared Key (WPA2-PSK), a wireless security standard from 2004, is still used by many organizations today. And although it’s safer than its predecessors, WPA2-PSK relies on pre-shared keys (PSKs), which use a shared password or ...
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As hackers get more sophisticated and hands-on, network security strategies have to adapt to meet the new challenge. An old idea that has recently been given new life is the concept of zero trust networks. This article will briefly discuss ...
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OCSP support is not included in the current roadmap of SecureW2 for some key reasons. Here’s a brief overview of your options for certificate revocation: OCSP stands for Online Certificate Standard Protocol. It’s a protocol described in RFC 6960 that ...
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Businesses understand the importance of passwords for private data security but might not realize that using a network with passwords poses many security threats. As hacking techniques become more advanced, data is stolen at a rate of almost 6 million ...
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Security keys are useful tools for hardening your devices with an additional factor of authentication. Did you know that same protection can be extended to your network? SecureW2, a Yubico Partner, has developed an industry-first software solution that allows you ...
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Certificate mapping, in a general sense, refers to the tying of an identity to an X.509 digital certificate. In practice, the term is mostly used in the context of Microsoft’s “client certificate mapping” feature, wherein a client’s Active Directory identity ...
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The short answer is: Yes. Organizations that are interested in moving from the unsecure PEAP-MSCHAPv2 protocol to the superior EAP-TLS protocol might be worried about huge infrastructure overhaul or the network downtime it might entail. We’ve helped many organizations over ...
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