RSA Security just finished a study of Wi-Fi in three top financial centers: New York, London and Paris. The security solutions business company found that of the three big money centers, London has the most Wi-Fi, but more importantly, the most secure Wi-Fi.
The number of wireless access points has jumped by 160% over the past 12 months, with 7,130 connections, compared to 6,371 in New York and only 827 in Paris. Around 6% of those were public Wi-Fi spots, compared to 15% in New York and 11% in Paris.
The business-only Wi-Fi hotspots were secured from outside attack, i.e. using either advanced forms of encryption or WEP (Wi-Fi encrypted access, which is what most of us use), in 81% of the cases in London, compared to 76% in New York and 80% in Paris. But, in all three cities, less than half the points were protected by advanced encryption, which RSA, not surprisingly, characterized as inadequate, even if the numbers of advanced encrypted hotspots have substantially improved over the past year.
Cynthia Brumfield at 10:52 AM|Comments(0)
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