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In this article, I present some of my thoughts around security of cloud-managed wireless solutions (which I am a massive fan of!). Hopefully the views here will be construed as constructive ideas that may prompt vendors to perhaps look more closely at their current implementations to perhaps feed in to product improvements. I've been taking a close look at a some cloud-managed wireless solutions recently and they appear to be a very exciting area, providing a very compelling proposition for many organisations. Remote access to manage your network from anywhere that you have an Internet connection is an incredibly powerful (and empowering) feature. As a consultant working for a vendor-neutral re-seller  the possibilities around remote support and managed services for my customers provide a whole new avenue of exciting opportunities. However, after the initial buzz and excitement of playing with these solutions, I started to think long and hard about their security. Ma

Just a quick note to myself (as well as sharing for anyone interested)... Aerohive APs can be told where to find Hive Manager using DHCP option 225 (for the HM name) or option 226 (for the HM IP address). - (see here for a much better explanation) I tried to set up the DHCP option 226 for an Aerohive AP today to tell it where to find Hive Manager in my lab. The DHCP server I am using is a Cisco IOS switch. I couldn't get the AP to accept the option for some reason. After lots of playing about, I finally figured out what my issue was: I was using the ' ascii ' keyword for the option type, when it should have been the ' ip ' type (...yes, it's always obvious in retrospect). Here is the correct configuration for a DHCP scope in case you find yourself in the same position: ! *** only assign addresses above .150 *** ! ip dhcp excluded-address 192.168.50.1 192.168.50.150 ip dhcp excluded-address 192.168.50.254 ! ip dhcp pool AP-VLAN    network 192.16

I like pictures of stuff. Some people understand and learn more easily through hearing the spoken word, some through reading text and others prefer pictorial representations of ideas, concepts and information. For me, it's definitely pictures, which is why I love Metageek's Eye PA product. In this article, I take a look at the Eye PA wireless network analysis tool and talk about why I'm so enamored with this product. If you're like me, one of the first things you do when visiting a new building, venue or customer site is to fire up your copy of Metageek's free (and incredibly useful) WiFi tool: inSSIDer . It's always interesting to see just how many SSIDs organisations are still trying to cram on to the 2.4GHz band or are perhaps creating themselves and their neighbors a whole heap of trouble by not using non-overlapping channels. Here's how things look for me, sat at home, as I write this article: inSSIDer However, I now have an additional habit