CES - DAY 2 - Transcript - Hour 1, Segment 15

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We are talking right now with Frank Hanzlik, he is with the Wi-Fi Alliance, the group that is responsible for maintaining and administrating the standards in the Wi-Fi group. People that create products that put the standard in their products you guys are in charge of keeping those standards up. And also creating new ones and during the break, we were talking about a new sort of state of the art security standard, which is 802.11i. Now at one point in time, security was okay you know you had the web keys and you had you know sort of security by obfuscation. But then AirSnort came along and other programs like it and sort of took the fun out of being on Wi-Fi as things. How difficult is it to document true damage? Why people actually are being able to grab your information, I mean if there are several layers of protection, if you are going to do banking over Wi-Fi, yeah the data is flying through the air but it*s also encrypted. So who cares, what*s the difference, what are you concerned about?

Frank Hanzlik: A lot of that was really perception you know people who had heard about these folks who were chocking and kind of coming in and camping out in parking lots and getting in the networks. And whether they got stuff or not I think was really less of the issue, people were just concern that hey I was exposed I don*t want to be exposed.

David Lawrence: Right, when somebody is typing their password on FTP or if they are typing their password to AOL those are not encrypted, those are not send, they are send in the clear and certainly keystroke you know grabbers who have been around for years too, so I am sure people had that as an issue.

Frank Hanzlik: Absolutely and you know that the thing about security is you are never done, you know it*s always a moving target whether you are talking about wired networks or wireless network. So Wi-Fi got a lot of attention just because of such a cool technology, it was being embraced like few other technologies, right here and so. Its just kind of became a target and the reality was, web was broken you know for the sophisticated hacker people found ways of kind of compromising it. And so we kind of a took a step back and we said we certainly don*t want that to happen. You know we don*t want this kind of halt what is this huge grassroots movements and to really get everybody connected. And so we really kind of take the bull by the horns, work really closely with the IEEE and some of the other folks. And came out with standard called WPA, stands for Wi-Fi Protected Access in the spring of last year, which was really able to address all the known issues that existed with the web problems.

David Lawrence: Okay so that will all be in 802.11i?

Frank Hanzlik: Absolutely and then actually just a few months ago we supported the full 802.11i capability with the fall of the WPA called WPA2. So all the new stuff that*s out there is shipping with either WPA2 or WPA so it*s very, very secure.

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