Wireless Security Testing

Ensure Your Wireless Networks are Secure and Compliant

Organizations must ensure their wireless networks are secure and meet applicable compliance mandates.

Based on the IEEE 802.11 wireless networking standards, Wi-Fi wireless networks have inherent risks. These risks can come from improperly secured infrastructure, rogue access points and wireless clients themselves. MAC filtering, WEP encryption and pre-shared keys are no longer effective defensive measures to protect customers using the wireless network and accessing data. Most of these measures can be bypassed or broken within minutes, exposing your internal infrastructure.

Dell SecureWorks’ Wireless Security Testing service evaluates the security of your wireless networks and their compliance with appropriate mandates. Through configuration reviews, technical testing and scanning for rogue access point detection, we can help ensure  your wireless networks are secure and meet critical compliance mandates.

Dell SecureWorks’ Wireless Security Testing services:

• Evaluates the security of your wireless network infrastructure
• Assesses your compliance with applicable mandates
• Identifies rogue access points and other points of unauthorized entry

The Wireless Security Testing service helps you:

Reduce risk and improve security across your wireless assets

Mobility is integral to productivity. Employees must have computing resources at their fingertips at all times. Many businesses support employee systems through wireless technology deployed across their offices. However, over time, some wireless devices may get overlooked in the environment. These "lost" devices can then become attractive targets for hackers as they may not have been patched to reflect known exposures.

The Wireless Security Testing service presents a holistic and detailed review of your wireless network security by performing three distinct evaluations: a Site Survey, a Wireless Connectivity Architecture Evaluation and Wireless Security Testing. In addition, the service reviews known authorized access points and clients to determine if any rogue devices exist, to the extent possible.

Safely capitalize on the advantages of mobility

Enabling mobile computing should not enable risk. Having confidence in the security of your wireless networks is critical to enabling the full potential of a mobile workforce, while empowering customers and partners.  Unfortunately, for many IT organizations, wireless networks are perceived as one of the weakest links in their security.

The Wireless Security Testing service is a thorough evaluation designed to give you the visibility you need to safely enable mobile devices across your organization.

Dell SecureWorks’ consultants use a structured and iterative process, testing your wireless network architecture, systems configurations and processes for gaps that may affect your ability to protect wireless assets from unauthorized access. You get the confidence that your wireless network is enabling only the right people.

Comply with industry regulations and information security best practices

Wireless security represents a critical area for much of the compliance legislation that businesses are subject to. However, businesses are, at times, unprepared to sufficiently identify, catalog and evaluate their wireless assets. In addition, a single rogue device across your environment can expose your network and customer and transaction data to an unauthorized party.

Through the Wireless Security Testing service, our consultants look for gaps in your compliance with applicable mandates such as PCI, GLBA, FISMA, HIPAA, etc., and recommend steps to remediate those gaps.   

We take a "security first" approach to our engagement. Even if current compliance mandates do not address wireless devices and architecture, your organization will benefit knowing our consultants have prepared your organization to meet any likely future compliance requirements.

Identify rogue devices that may access your wireless architecture

Over the past few years, many businesses and their IT organizations have undergone tremendous change; change in offices and office locations, their operations and employees. Given that wireless technology is deployed outside the walls of the data center, IT can lose track of wireless devices operating across the company. In addition, an employee may have introduced a wireless device into the environment that IT is not aware of.

Dell SecureWorks security consultants perform a site survey, passively and/or actively searching for rogue devices. Data gathered is compared to known authorized access points and clients to determine if any rogue devices exist, to the extent possible.

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