Overview of Wireless Access

In today’s computer world, it seems like everyone has a laptop. We do a lot of traveling, and when you go to any airport in America, it seems like everyone is working on a laptop while they wait for their plane.

Because laptops have grown in popularity, we IT professionals must account for them on our networks. Laptops offer IT administrators a unique set of challenges that we must deal with on a day-to-day basis.

One major concern for IT administrators is security. Years ago we never had to worry about users copying documents to a desktop computer and then walking out with the computer. But today, users can copy company documents to laptop computers and then walk out the door with the computer and the documents. In ...

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