Broadband Wireless Network Encryption

As more and more companies deploy wireless networks for their mobile workforce, and use wireless for high speed links, data protection needs to be done end to end. Even wireless network encryption standards such as WPA aren't good enough because they decrypt at the access point. Plus, because of the physical layout of wireless networks, it is best to decrypt in a secure location - such as a DMZ or a data center. Wireless networks can be snooped, hacked, and exploited. Numerous thieves have been convicted for stealing information from companies by exploiting wireless network security vulnerabilities in wireless networks.

CipherOptics offers leading solutions to protect data over wireless with the best wireless network encryption available, IPSec. Microsoft, Cisco, and many standards bodies have specified and supported IPSec as the best encryption to use, and customers can deploy CipherOptics IPSec solutions to create a secure wireless VPN that protects either backbone extension or protects data over WiFi or WiMax technologies.

Securing Wireless Networks
Wireless networks have become mission critical. Three key issues companies with wireless network must address:

Where to decrypt the data flow? Most companies usually have one access point in a less than secure location.
How to establish and elevate all networks, irrespective of vendor, to a vendor common, best-in-class security standard?
How to make wireless security transparent to up-and-coming wireless solutions such as metro WLANs and WiMAX?

Protect WLAN Traffic End-to-End

While 802.11x wireless network traffic is encrypted over the air, it is decrypted at the access point and travels unprotected from there. All it takes is one exposed access point to give a hacker an unsecured link from which to mount an attack.

Solution: Using client access and CipherOptics Security Gateways, IPSec can provide protection end-to-end from the client to a secure location, application or server.

Securing Point-to-Point

Point-to-point wireless connections offer lower costs though carrier toll bypass, but data sent over the air is exposed and can be stolen by a sniffing attacks.
Solution: The point-to-point wireless link can be secured using CipherOptics Security Gateways for high-speed IPSec or Ethernet encryption.

Secure The LAN From WLAN Threats

Anyone with access to the WLAN could exploit vulnerabilities to gain unauthorized access to other sensitive locations.

Solution: CipherOptics Security Gateways can serve as deterministic firewalls which eliminate unauthorized traffic from the WLAN. A stateless encryption-based firewall isolates traffic from LAN to LAN.

The CipherOptics Network-wide Encryption Solutions easily integrate into your network. For more information or to speak directly with a CipherOptics representative about your security concerns, call us at 1-877-878-6655 or feel free to ask us a question.