I would think WPA2 plus denying all MAC addresses except those that you
specifically allow on the router (The MACs of the Tablets) would do the
trick?

I also recently heard about Packet Fence:
http://www.packetfence.org/home.html which would work but it may be a bit of
overkill.

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Rich Gilson <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>>
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