Re: WEP

[Dan Updegrove <updegrove () MAIL UTEXAS EDU>]

Chad,

We have never deployed WEP, since:

- We'd have to communicate the WEP keys to our potential wireless community
of 50,000 students and 20,000 faculty/staff. This seems equivalent to
disseminating the keys to all of central Texas

- We'd anticipate substantial user configuration problems and help desk calls

- If successful (a very big "if"), we'd be providing more security than
most of our users have in other wireless environments -- at home, coffee
shops, hotels, airports. Thus any data transport we were protecting on
campus would be unprotected elsewhere. Accordingly we have focused our
efforts on educating users to take responsibility for their own data
protection everywhere, via:
        - VPN
        - SSL
        - TLS

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Dan




At 07:47 AM 7/13/2005, you wrote:
> Understanding that WEP is relatively easy to crack, how many of you have
> moved away from WEP as an addtional layer of security for your wireless
> networks?  What was your reasoning for doing so?
>
> Thanks,
> Chad McDonald, CISSP
> Chief Information Security Officer
> Georgia College & State University
> 478.445.4473  Office
> 478.454.8250 Cell
> 478.445.1202 Fax


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