March 2003 Slide Security (Again, Sorry) Darrin Miller

March 2003 Slide 2 Agenda Today Tomorrow Public WLANs Private WLANs Future

March 2003 Slide 3 Today Proprietary Implementations –Variety of implementations that thwart the large threats to Wireless LANs (WLANs) WiFi Protected Access (WPA) –Imminent, and again mitigates the large threats to WLANs Tunneling overlays (SSL, SSH, IPsec)

March 2003 Slide 4 Tomorrow – Task Group i (TGi) Pros –Stronger Encryption (AES) –More complete features and mitigation of threats authenticated management frames Secure ad-hoc networking Secure roaming Challenges –Must evaluate the entire system for security –Relies on other entities for security (IETF) –How soon will TGi be finished and how soon will vendors produce interoperable products –EAP acronym soup (EAP-TLS, PEAP, EAP-TTLS)

March 2003 Slide 5 Public WLANs Today –Authentication Mandatory –Typically No Confidentiality –Limited Roaming –Dedicated Access Points Tomorrow –Legacy Device Support –Roaming Mandatory –Fraud Protection –Confidentiality Desired –Shared Use Access Points

March 2003 Slide 6 Private WLANs Today –Authentication Mandatory –Confidentiality Mandatory –Legacy Device Support Tomorrow –QOS Support Mandatory (VoIP) –Secure Roaming Mandatory –Legacy Device Support –Easier Deployment –Easier Management

March 2003 Slide 7 Future - Devices in Motion Handoff of service between WLAN and Wireless WAN –Authentication assurance –Confidentiality assurance –Consistency across standards bodies (?) Public Services Based Network –Corporate Application Access User Based Public Service –Personal Use User Based Private to Public Service –How do we consistently authenticate the user to the both services –Corporate Security Policy compliance. Is it OK to be connected to two networks at once. Will the end user or corporation even know?

March 2003 Slide 8 Feedback?