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Cloud Based Wireless Services - Some Thoughts About Security...

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