{"id":2336,"date":"2004-06-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2004\/06\/10\/gartner-misconfigured-aps-cause-most-wlan-breaches\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:41:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:41:06","slug":"gartner-misconfigured-aps-cause-most-wlan-breaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2004\/06\/10\/gartner-misconfigured-aps-cause-most-wlan-breaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Gartner: Misconfigured APs Cause Most WLAN Breaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of wireless LAN security breaches are caused by poorly configured access points (APs) and client software, Gartner, Inc. said this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Whether hackers are able to enter a company&#8217;s WLAN through an unprotected AP or through a peer workstation, once they are associated with the network, they will be difficult to detect because they may not be visible in or near the network site,&#8221; said John Pescatore, vice president and Gartner fellow.<\/p>\n<p>Pescatore made his comments at Gartner&#8217;s IT Security Summit this week in Washington D.C. He said that it is essential that enterprises prevent rogue APs and that &#8220;official&#8221; APs are configured correctly.<\/p>\n<p>To do that, enterprises should install their own wireless intrusion detection sensors and not rely on methods such as having IT personnel walk the hallways with wireless sniffers.<\/p>\n<p>More info: http:\/\/www.mobilepipeline.com\/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=21700070<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-warnings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4823,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions\/4823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}