CA works on its wireless bedside manner
Tuesday, 25 May 2004 12:01 EST
Computer Associates today unveiled two new customers trialling its latest foray into wireless product offerings. Wireless Site Management enables users to offer secure and managed 802.11 Wi-Fi access and is already proving popular in academic circles and the healthcare industry, where flexibility, mobility and security are paramount. Yogesh Gupta, CTO of CA, said the product removes the "headache" of managing and rotating wireless encryption keys - a task Gupta says has become a "nightmare" for IT departments.
The product also enables enterprises or organisations to define physical boundaries for their network as well as the more traditional 'virtual boundaries' of encryption-based security.
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