>From my experience, it's not so much a matter of consume grade hardware, it's a matter of how they do the encryption and authentication.
What I would recommend would be a mixture of activating TCP/IP packet encryption on all traffic on the network (wired and wireless) as well as implementing a certificate-based authentication server where you can only get authenticated to the network if you have a valid certificate file. It's been a while since I've looked at this stuff, but maybe this is useful as a starting point. Rich Gilson On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Simón Ruiz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey, I was asked a question by my father-in-law about what sort of > hardware he might use to connect WiFi tablets to their medical > office's system specifically to interact with their EMR software, > which means legally sensitive information would need to be transmitted > wirelessly. > > Does anyone have experience with the practical/legal implications? > > What level of security, or what type of security scheme, would be > appropriate for this type of use-case? > > I understand it's dead easy to crack WEP encryption, and not too hard > to crack WPA, so most consumer level devices would be dangerous to try > to use, right? > > Any ideas? > > Simón > > _______________________________________________ > Fwlug mailing list > [email protected] > http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org > > This is a public list and all posts are archived publicly. Please keep this > in mind before posting. >
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