T.J. Maxx Data Theft Likely Due To Wireless 'Wardriving'
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You've read the headlines. A small ring of hackers using wireless sniffers stole 45 million credit cards from a single chain resulting in LOSSES IN THE BILLIONS. This should put retailers and any organization using WiFi on notice. That underscores how vulnerable WiFi really is and the stakes. DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN TO YOU.
What many don't know is that EVERY ACCESS POINT ON THE MARKET TODAY IS VULNERABLE AND IMPOSSIBLE TO SECURE. 802.11i (WPA2) was supposed to solve the weaknesses in earlier encryption (WEP). IT DOES NOT. Stronger encryption alone is not enough.
Access Points truly are impossible to secure because of the flawed assumption in the industry that the wire going in is trusted and unencrypted. While acceptable for home wireless, too many organizations have a security perimeter that is a lot farther than a router a few feet from their computers. Access Points used in business and government are often on a different floor, or a different building on campus, and can be connected to the datacenter on a LAN, or worse, by wireless repeaters and bridges that may have poor or no security. Miles of vulneraility and exposure to physical tapping, interception or sniffing.
WirelessWall treats the AP as a conduit, it encrypts all traffic at Layer 2 before it goes into the AP, and it is only decrypted by the trusted user at the end-point. Because it is Layer 2, EVERYTHING above it is secure, without relying on elective, weak or slow application security at Layer 3 or above.
If you're serious about Loss Prevention, choose WirelessWall.
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