Wireless technology is increasingly used by companies that want to enhance their agility and 
increase productivity by enabling mobile, remote and flexible working. However, BT’s business continuity, security and governance practice believes that a vast number of organisations and their users do not fully understand the associated security implications and are leaving themselves very vulnerable.
To make matters worse, wireless capability is being added to more and more devices, and the tools to locate and hack wireless networks are easy to find and download from the Internet - so this situation can, and will, only get worse.
The first and most important step to using wireless technology securely is to find out exactly what equipment is in use. Ian Hughes at BT says: “In our experience companies who believe they have 100 per cent control of all wireless technology always have something unaccounted for. Even businesses that believe they don’t have any wireless connectivity at all are usually wrong. These ‘rogue’ devices can put the entire network at risk. It is, therefore, essential they secure the wireless network they know they have – as well as monitor for and identify the one(s) they don’t yet know about.” Enterprise - Security - Enabling wireless security
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