New WLan management products abound

AirMagnet is to introduce its Mobile 4.0 suite with four new security and monitoring enhancements. Meanwhile its chief rival, AirDefense, will launch the next version of AirDefense Enterprise 4.0 before the end of the year. This will incorporate more wireless Lan protocols and more predictive capability about vulnerability. Last month, AirDefense introduced one of the first Bluetooth monitoring tools for security. And Network management company Dartware is to launch a new wireless monitoring product called Wispermapper, which maps wireless network performance, identifies bottlenecks, and can identify and shut down rogue access points.

AireSpace's Wireless Location Services will ship in August - a package of applications that includes RF Fingerprinting, location software that the company claims can locate rogue devices within a few meters.

AirMagnet's Mobile 4.0 suite will include support for Cisco EAP-Fast (extensible authentication protocol-flexible authentication via secure tunneling), which is a follow on to EAP-Leap (lightweight EAP). Because EAP-Fast prevents any client device not using Fast from connecting to the network, without support for EAP-Fast, IT would have to drop all of its security while they test.

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