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Cisco helps avoid security scrimping in cash-tight times

Joanie Wexler By Joanie Wexler
Many Wi-Fi vendors have integrated dedicated wireless intrusion prevention systems (WIPS) directly into their 802.11n systems. Cisco, for example, recently released an application called Adaptive Wireless IPS integrated with a multifaceted attack correlation system in its Wireless Control System (WCS) network management and security policy platform. Read full story

Joanie Wexler is an independent networking technology writer/editor in Silicon Valley.

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