By the end of 2002, 30 percent of all enterprises will risk security breaches because they've deployed 802.11b wireless local area networks (WLANs) without proper security, research and advisory firm Gartner, Inc. said Thursday. About 50 percent of all enterprises plan . . .
By the end of 2002, 30 percent of all enterprises will risk security breaches because they've deployed 802.11b wireless local area networks (WLANs) without proper security, research and advisory firm Gartner, Inc. said Thursday. About 50 percent of all enterprises plan to install WLANs, according to Gartner, but at least 20 percent of large businesses already have "rogue" WLANs in place that were installed by users, not information technology (IT) shops, the firm claims. The users installed the WLANs because they were unwilling to wait for IT personnel to install them.

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