Network Management Strategies for the CIO
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President, Core Competence Inc.
Lisa Phifer owns and is president of Core Competence Inc., a consulting firm specializing in leading-edge network technology. She has been involved in the design, implementation and evaluation of networking and security products for over 25 years. She has advised companies large and small regarding needs, product assessment and the use of emerging technologies and best practices. Before joining Core Competence, Phifer was a member of the technical staff at Bell Communications Research, where she won a president's award for her work on ATM network management. Phifer teaches about wireless LANs, mobile security, NAC, and VPNs at many industry conferences and webinars. She has written extensively about network infrastructure and security technologies for numerous publications, including SearchSecurity.com, Information Security, Wi-Fi Planet, ISP-Planet, Business Communications Review, and Network World. Phifer's monthly wireless tips are published by SearchNetworking.com and SearchMobileComputing.com. -
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Contributions from Lisa Phifer, Wireless Networking Expert
- Would you please elaborate on an apparent contradiction on EAP FAST?
- Are there are any VPN clients for Mac OS X that support L2TP?
- What is the difference between an IPsec tunnel and a normal tunnel, and what is the bandwidth of eac
- Can you tell me what kinds of hardware are software are needed, in addition to traditional LAN equip
- How to configure Cisco PIX 515E to support VPN connections through Microsoft client
- Can you point me to a few big MPLS VPN providers?
- Can features such as VPN pass-through on routers be abused to dump traffic onto a NAT'd LAN?
- I've heard some SSL products such as Netilla can't run some applications. Which do you know that the
- SSL VPNs
- Combining VPN and WLAN technologies
- PDA VPN options
- Should I use a hardware or software VPN?
- Do I need to configure routes when setting up WLAN via VPN?
- Can you explain why certain wireless routers will not work with VPN connections?
- Troubleshooting Nortel Contivity VPN over a wireless network
- Using PPTP or IPsec VPN tunnels for WLAN security/gateway
- How do I allocate the bandwidth dynamically in ad hoc network?
- Can you offer me any advice in setting up a small ISP offering a wireless solution?
- What is EAP-FAST?
- What happens when wireless stations roam?