Wi-Fi Protected Access

•The Wi-Fi Alliance, working with the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) has developed an industry standard method of offering incredible encryption techniques and enterprise style access control in a clear, easy to implement customizable package.

•Stressing cross-vendor interoperability and backwards compatibility, WPA protects the value of past WLAN investments and provides a guarantee that future growth will not lock the user into a single brand of wireless solutions. WPA was also developed in a fashion that will allow legacy devices to be upgraded with Wi-Fi Protected Access™ without requiring costly hardware upgrades.

•WPA offers dynamic rekeying by cycling multiple random keys that are unique to each client, to overcome the techniques commonly used to compromise WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy).

•Enterprise networks can benefit from RADIUS access control solutions by taking advantage of WPA’s support for 802.1X authentication. This allows the administrator to control wireless sessions by individual user credentials along with device access control.

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