Corporations have taken steps to ensure the security and privacy of their own internal Wi-Fi networks, yet this protection often stops at the enterprise perimeter. Every day your employees sit in the airport, at the hotel, or a coffee shop checking their email or downloading customer records or other sensitive data.
The question is not whether your company needs wireless security: It's really about how you get the wireless genie back into the bottle before you experience a serious compromise.
Unprotected Wi-Fi networks pose multiple threats to business. Without wireless security controls, users can inadvertently compromise both local and corporate data, from a Wi-Fi hotspot or even from the office. Hackers can easily find an opening in an unprotected system on an access point or hotspot and run scripted, peer-to-peer attacks. They can gain access to confidential data such as customer lists, project plans, and even username-password combinations.
ZENworks® Endpoint Security Management provides the industry's first centrally managed endpoint security software solutions to control and manage wireless connectivity on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 machines.
Your IT department can:
- Exercise complete control over wireless connectivity
- Ensure use of only approved wireless NIC cards
- Completely silence the wireless radio, if desired
- Automatically distribute WEP pre-shared keys without user intervention
- Permit communication only via approved wireless devices
- Receive timely information on rogue access points and unauthorized WLANs
- Automatically adapt user connectivity permissions by network location
- Block unsafe wireless connections such as ad-hoc connections and those not protected by WEP, WPA and 802.11i, or other standards
Your users can:
- Securely access authorized wireless APs even in risky environments
- Easily connect without entering complicated security key information
- Securely remain productive in any wireless location
- Safely conduct business in multiple locations
- Avoid making difficult security decisions
- Avoid being bounced around from one AP to another AP, losing connectivity
Hackers cannot:
- Gain access to the corporate network via a user's wireless network card
- Scan notebook PC ports and read sensitive data over wireless hotspots
- Plant malware on mobile devices through wireless access
- Divert sensitive communications to rogue access points
- Trick users into making unsafe connections with unauthorized or "ad-hoc" access points
The patent-pending AccessAware™ technology centrally manages and controls mobile WLAN connectivity and access point visibility by NIC, user/group and location.