Makes integrated management systems for the future

LAN and WLAN can be implemented in companies often separated and managed. This has serious operational and safety-related disadvantages. Both areas should therefore be monitored and managed uniformly.

Let me sketch a fictitious scenario: When prototypical middle-engineering plant Schräuble & Co. with 2,000 employees, the users are dissatisfied with the services of IT. The networks do not function as they should. An important reason: It lacks a unified network management for LAN and WLAN.
Employees are mobile only limited features available, for example, they cannot partly access important business data, no faxing and printing. You also can not smoothly roam in the company, because the Wi-Fi radio shows again and again gaps. When switching between wired and wireless they need to re-authenticate each.

The company's management refers to security risks. A unified security and authorization architecture because there are not, which is why it is also prohibited to discontent of the workforce to use private mobile devices for business purposes. Guests get manually WLAN voucher issued on the IT cumbersome leads lists.

When the company buys a competitor who uses different network technology in wireless and specialized WLAN manufacturers to which the company has set the Wi-Fi in the material storage, is insolvent, the situation escalates: The support for the camp implemented products is no longer guaranteed, The IT administration, only a handful of employees, stated that their resources are exploited to the limit. A fundamentally different solution must ago, otherwise one could not guarantee anything.

BMW stoking slip fear of hacker attacks on cars

Viruses, Trojans, hackers, secret services - in the digital world lurk some dangers. And when it comes to data security, many consumers are just in this country wary. This is also true for cars. A now stuffed vulnerability at BMW makes itself heard.

Since cars are connected to the Internet, there is the fear of hackers. If a user can start his car via the smartphone App and there is possibly others butt in or it may even happen that someone takes over the control of braking or steering

The auto industry beckons from previously. The systems are safe. But now throws a Schnitzer BMW new question. Around 2.2 million cars equipped with Internet connections Series Connected Drive could be disrupted by radio because of an encryption error with technical skill.

This is no great drama, but the case shows that even things that should not happen occur when someone makes a mistake. And that a gap can make it through all the quality controls in the series. The ADAC discovered the vulnerability and warned the manufacturer - the upgraded then soon after.

The problem and the concerns there are ultimately being moved in the car computer. In 2011 it was university researchers from San Diego and Washington succeeded in using a manipulated music file in the computer systems Onstar and Sync, advance technology by General Motors and Ford. In addition, they were able to install via the service interface for workshops WLAN malicious software in the car.