What You Need to Provision Wireless LAN Access for BYOD WRITTEN BY LISA PHIFER
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T network teams face a dilemma when it comes to BYOD and wireless LAN access.
They don’t have the resources to manually configure hundreds of personal devices, yet asking users to configure their own clients invites errors and security issues. Fortunately, there are now tools that automate personal device configuration and even enforce varying levels of access policy. The trick for network teams will be in integrating these tools to obtain the necessary level of access control.
Until recently, IT departments were
able to use desktop management systems and Active Directory Group Policy Objects (AD GPOs) to auto-configure enterprise WLAN credentials and settings on company- issued laptops. Unfortunately, those tools generally can’t be applied to smartphones or tablets. With newer automated WLAN
onboarding tools, users can choose a designated SSID and be led to a captive portal splash page to log in and accept terms of service. This can immediately
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route users onto a somewhat limited guest network, but this is only a first step. Generally, enterprises need tools that can go deeper and assign access based upon policy. That’s where configuration tools come into play.
Let Your Users Self-Configure The goal of automated WLAN
onboarding tools is to allow users to configure connections without requiring IT assistance. Many Wi-Fi smartphones and tablets permit users to configure network connection
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