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WPA

ALSO CALLED: Wireless Encryption and Wi-Fi Protected Access
DEFINITION: Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) is a security standard for users of computers equipped with Wi-Fi wireless connection. It is an improvement on and is expected to replace the original Wi-Fi security standard, Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP). WPA provides more sophisticated  … 
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File Integrity Monitoring: Secure Your Virtual and Physical IT Environments
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WHITE PAPER: Discover the capabilities your file integrity monitoring solution should have to effectively secure and control your virtual and physical IT infrastructures.
Posted: 10 Oct 2008 | Published: 01 Oct 2008
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GRC: Over-Hyped or Legit?
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Posted: 11 Sep 2008 | Published: 01 Sep 2008
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Federated Identity in IPTV Environments
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WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the standards that apply to IPTV security environments and how they provide a foundation for deploying secure, user-friendly authentication services.
Posted: 20 Aug 2008 | Published: 01 Feb 2007
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WPA DEFINITION (continued): …  data encryption than WEP and also provides user authentication (WEP's user authentication is considered insufficient). WEP is still considered useful for the casual home user, but insufficient for the corporate environment where the large flow of messages can enable eavesdroppers to discover encryption keys more quickly.

WPA's encryption method is the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP). TKIP adddresses the weaknesses of WEP by including a per-packet … 
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