Does your organization have a workable Wi-Fi strategy in place? Even if you have adopted and secured a wireless network within the walls of your organization, your work is not done. With employees taking laptops with them to coffee shops, airport lounges, and home networks, a secure WiFi strategy must look well beyond the office.

Poorly secured, unencrypted public or home networks put your corporate data at risk. For instance, cyber-crooks have been establishing ad-hoc networks in public settings that offer free access, but that access comes with a steep price: data theft. These networks are set up specifically to snoop on users, gather passwords and steal sensitive data.

StormShield’s dynamic policy control allows you to control wireless connections no matter where your employees travel. Policies can be set to disallow ad-hoc mode, to enforce VPN usage over public hot spots, and to trigger authentication and encryption policies.

With connection control, administrators can set up access point whitelists based on SSIDs and MAC addresses, meaning that any rogue access points are blocked. Bluetooth connections can be controlled by these policies as well, eliminating yet another possible security hole.

With dynamic WiFi policy control, your organization can:

• Dynamically adjust user connection privileges based on location or context
• Disallow ad-hoc mode
• Enforce VPN usage
• Enforce authentication and encryption (WEP, WPA, WPA2, etc.)
• Control connections to WiFi access points using SSID and MAC address controls
• Enforce the usage of only approved wireless NICs