Four lesser-known Wi-Fi security threats and how to defend against them

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Network World Net Optimization Alert Jan 26, 2017 Four lesser-known Wi-Fi security threats and how to defend against them You've hardened your network against all the common weaknesses, now we'll show you how to take your wireless security to the next level. Read More ▶ Your Must-Read Stories • 6 tips to protect your home network • (From our archives) 'What do I do if my Internet pipes freeze?' • Meet new Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott • (From our archives) 10 tips from the front lines of enterprise public cloud use • Switches coming out this year will drive open networking forward • How to choose an IoT radio network • LinkedIn pumps water down to its server racks, uses an interesting spine and leaf network fabric • (From our archives) The world's 23 toughest math questions White Paper: Sapho Make Your Organization More Effective with Micro Apps With more than 2 million mobile apps to choose from, most of us have installed at least 40 of them on our smartphones. Downloads from the Apple App Store alone surpassed 100 billion last year - and that number is expected to double in 2017. Read More ▶ 6 tips to protect your home network Remote workers who use their home office as their primary office are arguably at even more of a risk since they may be exposing corporate assets as well as personal assets. Untangle recommends the following best practices to secure your home network. Read More ▶ (From our archives) 'What do I do if my Internet pipes freeze?' The question in the headline was posed by an impish troll to readers of Reddit's section devoted to networking. He got the help he deserved ... and more. Read More ▶ Meet new Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott Call it the first real result from Microsoft buying LinkedIn: Microsoft has hired the career networking site's Kevin Scott as its new CTO, a job he will hold in addition to being LinkedIn's SVP of Infrastructure. Read More ▶ (From our archives) 10 tips from the front lines of enterprise public cloud use A working group with representatives from some of the top companies in the world – GE, FedEX, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase and Morgan Stanley to name a few – share lessons learned from using the hybrid cloud. Read More ▶ Switches coming out this year will drive open networking forward Two moves by open networking vendors this week are likely to chip a little bit more off the monolith of proprietary, appliance-like equipment that still moves most packets around enterprise data centers. Read More ▶ How to choose an IoT radio network If you've been tasked with developing an IoT project, here's a look at the latest communications technologies currently available and on their way. Read More ▶ LinkedIn pumps water down to its server racks, uses an interesting spine and leaf network fabric Just two of the interesting innovations in the human network company's data center strategy Read More ▶ (From our archives) The world's 23 toughest math questions Read More ▶ White Paper: Cloudian Modern, Cloud-conscious Approaches to Data Protection Most data protection solutions make you choose between two imperfect storage options: high-cost disk or high-maintenance tape. There is a third option: object storage as a backup target. This analyst research note discusses how object storage works, how it uniquely solves the data protection challenge, and how it helps you meet your backup SLAs at 70% less cost than purpose-build backup appliances. Read More ▶ Join The Network World Communities As network pros you understand that the value of connections increase as the number of connections increase, the so called network effect, and no where is this more evident than in professional relationships. Join Network World's LinkedIn and Facebook communities to share ideas, post questions, see what your peers are working on and scout out job applicants (or maybe find your next opportunity). Network World on Facebook ▶ Network World on LinkedIn ▶ SLIDESHOWS 9 painful ways people hurt themselves with computers/video games 10 amazing Raspberry Pi clusters Read More ▶ Most-Read Stories 1. Game over for Solaris and SPARC? 2. LinkedIn pumps water down to its server racks, uses an interesting spine and leaf network fabric 3. Saudi Arabia again hit with disk-wiping malware Shamoon 2 4. Avaya, in no-brainer, pulls $1 billion IPO in wake of bankruptcy filing 5. Ransomware makes California nursing school feel ill 6. Four lesser-known Wi-Fi security threats and how to defend against them 7. 19 free cloud storage options 8. 7 free tools every network needs 9. Cisco snatches AppDynamics from IPO market 10. That online job candidate may be carrying a virus

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