http://www.intmediaevents.com/80211/spring02
802.11 Planet Conference Spring 2002
June 10-12, 2002, Philadelphia, PA

Join CoreCom's Lisa Phifer at this wireless LAN conference, where she will be moderating several sessions:

Monday, June 10, 2002, 1:00pm
802.11 Security: The Loopholes & The Patches
http://www.intmediaevents.com/80211/spring02/agenda.html#w3

Instructors from Agere, WildPackets, and ISS will introduce and demonstrate WLAN vulnerabilities and the security measures available to mitigate them, including traffic analysis, intrusion detection, scanning, and the impact of using WEP and 802.1x access control.

Tuesday, June 11, 2002, 1:30pm
Smart Hardware: Where Does the Intelligence Belong?
http://www.intmediaevents.com/80211/spring02/agenda2.html#7

Panelists from Musenki, ReefEdge, and NetScreen present and debate different perspectives on where "intelligence" - specifically, functions like authentication, encryption, access control, and QoS - should reside in networks that incorporate 802.11 WLAN access.

Wednesday, June 12, 2002, 10:30am
802.11 Security War Stories: How To Avoid Common Mistakes
http://www.intmediaevents.com/80211/spring02/agenda3.html#3

Panelists who have been in the trenches setting up secure 802.11 deployments share the real-life pitfalls they've seen and the steps taken to overcome them.

ENTERPRISE SECURITY

http://www.corecom.com/external/livesecurity/pki.htm
Understanding Certificates and PKI
Watchguard Live Security, March 15, 2002

With WatchGuard's permission, CoreCom reposts Dave Piscitello's LiveSecurity primer on certificates and public key infrastructure. Dave counsels WatchGuard users to use certificates, suggesting they'll rest easier the day they can tell passwords, "You are the weakest link. Goodbye!"

http://www.isp-planet.com/technology/2002/antivirus.html
The Plague Upon Us
ISP-Planet, May 17, 2002

AntiVirus protection has become an IT staple. It's bundled with home PCs and deployed on corporate desktops, e-mail servers, Web servers, and firewalls. In fact, AV scanners have become so ubiquitous that one begins to wonder ... Do we really need to run them everywhere? Lisa Phifer ponders this question for ISP-Planet.

http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid7_gci826081,00.html
Using Secure Shell with wireless PDAs
searchNetworking.com, May 28, 2002

This column is the fourth in a series on securing enterprise network access by PDAs. Here, Lisa Phifer describes the benefits and limitations of using PDA Secure Shell programs for secure administration and secure access over wireless.

MANAGED SECURITY SERVICES

http://www.tisc2002.com/insight.html#v45
Post 911 Questions to ask your MSP
TISC Insight, March 15, 2002

With a heightened awareness of how quickly organizations can be crippled by a terrorist attack or natural disaster, many CIOs are reconsidering outsourcing network operations and administration. This TISC Insight column ponders the business continuity and disaster recovery questions that should be considered before entrusting your business to a managed service provider.

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