Smart Devices on the Corporate Network

[balla-zoltan]

Did anyone has a requirement to enable the corporate wireless network to support any wireless devices, smart phones, ipads, galaxy, etc? If anyone did how did you do it and kept the network secure? Is it possible at all to allow all of the wireless devices access the corporate network and keep it secure?

Thanks

[Nicolas Darchis]

I don't see a relation between the 2 elements you are talking about. If you configure your SSID for wpa2, then it is secure. How the fact that Ipad and smartphones connect as well is making the network less secure ?

It depends what you want to protect from what. Is it the clients you want to keep secure ? the network itself ?

Nicolas

[balla-zoltan]

The situation we are running into is that we have to allow all employees to

have access to our corporate environmet with their smart phones, ipads, an

d the like. Also, anybody who come

to our locations should have access to the internet. We have what we call the consultant VLAN and the guest traffic goes o that VLAN. The other issue is that we have to make the employee connection to the corporate network as easy as possible. At the moment the client's supplicant has to be able to support wpa2 Enterprise or it will not be able to log into the corporate network. What we set out to do is that to make it easy for any device to log into the wireless network, which to me eliminates any chance for security. We are using Cisco 4400 wireless controllers with ACS and AD authentication.

Thanks