New Developments in Wireless LAN Security Protocols and Standards

If wireless users can endure one more round of debates about security standards, they may soon be able to buy actual products. It's no secret that built-in security functions lack current wireless local-area network products, a situation due largely to . . . If wireless users can endure one more round of debates about security standards, they may soon be able to buy actual products. It's no secret that built-in security functions lack current wireless local-area network products, a situation due largely to the inadequacy of Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP), the first wireless security standard, which was introduced several years ago.

But that could change as new standards take hold and the wireless LAN component market -- estimated by the Aberdeen Group, a Boston-based consulting firm, to have exceeded $1 billion in 2002 -- continues to attract heavy hitters such as Microsoft Corp., which recently said it would enter the market.

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