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June 23, 2005 -- Market Analysis: WLAN Security    
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Market Analysis: WLAN Security
By Dave Molta
Polls continue to show that the biggest impediment to enterprise WLAN adoption is security concerns. Face it, you can't make your WLAN bulletproof but you can build a strong defense strategy with the right tools. We examine the state of wireless security--what's new, what's changed and what problems must be addressed.
Review: Distributed Wireless Security Monitors
By Frank Bulk
We performed an exhaustive review of these specialized overlay systems that provide wire-side and wireless rogue-device detection, RF interference and intrusion-detection capabilities as well as user and performance monitoring in the 2.4-GHz and 5-GHz ranges.
Centerfold: Nancy's Specialty Foods Cooks Up Dual SAN Implementation
By Kelly Jackson Higgins
We go inside the iSCSI SAN project to see why the gourmet frozen food maker chose IP over Fibre Channel for its storage area network.

Workshops
Workshop: Get Ready for the RFID Wave
By George A. Spohrer Jr., PE
Think you're ready for RFID? It's a lot more than slapping tags on your products and pallets. To get the most out of RFID in-house as well as for your suppliers, perform a detailed assessment of your business processes and supply chain.

Sneak Previews
Sneak Preview: Concord Communications' Spectrum Service Manager 7.1
By Bruce Boardman
Putting "service" back in network-monitoring service, Spectrum leverages monitored devices, servers and applications to save IT time.
Sneak Preview: Juniper Networks' ISG-2000 with IDP
By Mike Jones and Greg Shipley
Neohapsis Labs puts the ISG through the ringer and finds that although it is well-designed and accurate, some minor problems still need to be worked out.
Sneak Preview: Eset Software's NOD32 v. 2.5
By Curtis Franklin Jr.
Anti-malware uses heuristics rather than signature updates to protect the network, but does this work as well? We investigate.
Sneak Preview: Cendura's Cohesion 3.5
By Sean Doherty
See how included and configurable blueprints let you manage configuration for network devices while still remaining in favor with the Feds.

Departments
Last Mile: Can You Hear Me Now? Not Good!
Edited By Tim Wilson and Tom LaSusa
This edition looks at the Top 11 worst times or places to have cell phone access, transferring your brain into computers and a 'real' R2-D2!
Quick Takes: Performance Management
By Patricia Thomas
In this edition we look at Hitachi Global Storage Technologies' Ultrastar 15K147, NetScout Systems' nGenius Performance Manager 3.0, FullArmor's IntelliPolicy for Clients 1.5 and Sandstorm Enterprises' LANWatch 7.0.
Letters: Colorful Cables
By NWC Readers
Brian Phillips contends, "The lines between application firewalls, traditional firewalls and other network access control offerings have become so blurred most people cannot distinguish one from the next."
Columns
Down to Business: IT Professionals: Embrace Change or Perish
By Rob Preston
Just because engineers and developers in other countries are 'stealing' tech jobs doesn't mean we should give up. But we do have to adjust.
Air Time: IT Matters: Today and Tomorrow
By Dave Molta
Enrollment in computer science programs has plummeted because we live in a culture that views an IT degree as a ticket to nowhere.
BuzzCuts
BuzzCut: StorageTek Products Still Have Solid Future
By Don MacVittie
Lots of doom-and-gloom predictions about the future of StorageTek have followed its acquisition by Sun Microsystems. Don't believe the hype.
BuzzCut: British "Superhacker" to be Extradited
By Sean Doherty
The U.S. government has accused a U.K. resident of perpetrating the "biggest military computer hack of all time," but it doesn't look so brilliant to us.
BuzzCut: Apple Switches to Intel Processors; But PowerPC Boxes Safe for Now
By Michael J. DeMaria
Apple is finally giving up the PowerPC chip and moving to Intel processors, but there's still plenty of life left in the current hardware.
BuzzCut: Impact of WiMAX Standard Adoption May Be Long Ways Away
By Dave Molta
Several vendors have launched WiMAX products recently, but the real affects won't be felt until products based on IEEE 802.16e begin to become available, probably after 2007.
FUDBuster: AT&T Chairman: IP Will Outgrow Long Distance
By Tim Wilson
AT&T's David Dorman concedes that IP services are a better growth proposition than conventional analog long distance services. Next he'll be telling us that CDs will someday outsell cassettes!

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