Wireless policy

Wireless policy What kinds of measures can you enforce for wireless
users to maintain a higher level of security? You should never allow
users to leave their computers alone in a public place where anyone can
use the machine or alter its contents.

Always establish a wireless computing policy. Computer theft is very
common and a hacker can easily use a few minutes alone with a
machine to gather all the information from it that he needs to institute
a viable attack against your WLAN.

The policy you create can be a written policy that outlines all the procedures
and methods important to apply when securing your laptop or
other wireless PDA.

Simple precautions would require that the wireless user log out of the
WLAN so that someone who did try to access your WLAN would not be
able to log in immediately without the proper authentication information
from the user himself.

In addition, your policy should not permit users to take their wireless
devices with them to a public place where they eat lunch. Just getting
up and finding a soda can leave your machine alone long enough for
someone to compromise its link to your WLAN. If you do see someone
who appears to be looking at your wireless device or trying to copy down
information, activity such as this should be reported to the administrator
right away.
You can never be too careful with the security (or lack thereof) of
wireless devices!