ICSA Labs Announces Its First Broadband 
Wireless LAN Security Certification Program 

New Certification Program Reduces Security Risks for WLAN End Users

    ICSA Labs, an independent division of TruSecure Corporation, today announced the ICSA Labs' Wireless LAN (WLAN) Product Security Certification Testing program. The ICSA Labs program will be the first program to offer the comprehensive, independent testing determining whether wireless LAN products meet the most stringent security requirements targeted by the IEEE 802.11i Working Group.

    "Mobile connectivity is being driven by the acceptance of wireless devices and the need for ubiquitous access to network resources from both internal and external to the enterprise," said Allan Carey, program manager, Information Security Services, IDC. "ICSA Labs' role in determining and testing against the current standards will help vendors focus on interoperability and necessary standards as part of their overall security strategies to help mitigate existing security concerns with wireless."

    Certified products will be tested against the most rigorous IEEE, IETF and other widely accepted industry standards. Testing criteria will be vetted in public presentations, in briefings to vendors and user community stakeholder groups and will be available on the ICSA Labs Web site. Certified ICSA Labs WLAN products will be able to deliver security services that include: station and access point authentication and access control, data and management frame integrity, data origin authentication, data payload confidentiality, and replay detection. Products also will be subjected to ICSA Labs' cryptography testing, providing further confidence that the certified product can consistently deliver the required security services.

    More information on ICSA Labs Certification testing programs can be found on the ICSA Labs Web site at: http://www.icsalabs.com. ICSA Labs creates globally accepted security product standards and testing procedures. As the industry leader, ICSA Labs sets the standard by performing extensive research as well as tracking and measuring risks.

    About ICSA Labs
    ICSA Labs, an independent division of TruSecure Corporation, offers vendor-agnostic testing and certification of security products. Hundreds of the worlds top security vendors submit their products for testing and certification at ICSA Labs. The end-users of security technologies rely on ICSA Labs to authoritatively set and apply objective testing and certification criteria for measuring product compliance and reliability. The organization tests 95% of products in key technology categories such as anti-virus, IPSec, VPN, firewall, PC firewall, cryptography, intrusion detection and content security. For more information about ICSA Labs, please visit http://www.icsalabs.com.

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