Oliver Tsai sees it every quarter. Fresh faced medical students, new to Sunnybrook and Women’s 
College Health Sciences Centre, and armed with the latest wifi enabled laptops, who see no reason why they shouldn’t be able to hop right onto Sunnybrook’s wireless network.
The same scenario plays out with doctors and office managers, and anyone else whose new gadget automatically sniffs the airwaves and picks up signals from Tsai’s wireless LAN. “They can see what’s available but, because of the security, they can’t access the network until the device is properly configured,” says Tsai, the director of IT at the academic health sciences centre in Toronto. It’s a look-but-don’t-touch situation that can frustrate users — but, Tsai says, it’s a necessary, if temporary, frustration.
Yet IT executives are still distrustful of wireless LANs because of perceived security nightmares, such as wireless denial-of-service attacks and network breaches. Computerworld > Lock up your LAN: wirelessly and securely
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