Gartner: Der Umsatz mit Intrusion Prevention-Systemen für Wireless LAN wird 2008 um 41 Prozent steigen

According to John Girard, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner, most companies have moved rapidly from trying to keep WLANs out of their organisations to fully embracing them widely across all corporate facilities.  For many security organisations, this shift has meant that the focus on WLAN security has moved from finding and disabling rogue access points (APs) to detecting and remediating misconfigured APs. 

In today’s environment, wireless security-monitoring products are used mostly as vulnerability assessment and management products, and only secondarily as intrusion prevention products.  However, new wireless technologies, such as 802.11n, have broadened the types of WLAN modulations that need to be detected, and emerging forms of wireless communications (such as WiMAX and third generation) will continue this trend.

As the use of WLANs becomes more commonplace, vulnerability-seeking attacks will increase, and intrusion-prevention capabilities will be used more often. Therefore, although the WIPS market has reached the early mainstream phase, it will continue to be a dynamic market where new features will be required with each product release. 

Additional information is available in the Gartner report “MarketScope for Wireless LAN Intrusion Prevention Systems."

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