In the security and wireless networking world, 802.1x is a big deal. This is the Layer 2 protocol that enables device authentication. The protocol helps keep war drivers off wireless networks and is ...

Is there such a beast? I've got a heterogenious environment (Linux, Windows, Solaris, VMware) with laptops, workstations and servers, and it's time to implement 802.1x. I'll probably start with the ...

As an authentication standard for wired networks, 802.1X has a happy side effect when used with WLANs: It gives you per-user, per-session WEP keys. As an authentication standard for wired networks, ...

802.1X is maturing, but it will take a skilled network technician to configure it in products across any large deployment. While previous iLabs security-based testing focused strictly on how the IEEE ...