Inside Lockheed Martin's Wireless Security Lab

ACM Technews ran an article about Lockheed Martin's Wireless Cyber Security Lab, which is racing against hackers to catch flaws and vulnerabilities in wireless security.

"We're trying to ensure that something similar [to 9/11] doesn't happen in the realm of wireless communications," says lab director John Morrison.

Perri Nejib, CTO for Lockheed Martin Information Systems says the biggest emerging wireless security threat is the blurring of the boundary between home and the office, as employees increasingly access company data via corporate VPNs from their homes.

To address this issue, the company has been testing numerous types of consumer technology, including cell phones, which have been moving to enterprise networks. The spread of Wi-Fi hot spots has been of particular concern because of the technology's growing ubiquity in urban areas. Oftentimes users will connect to unsecured networks without realizing that they're at risk.

See complete article at NETWORKWORLD.