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WIRELESS INTERNET HAS MAXIMUM PROTECTION

The popularity of Wireless networking solutions may fall if the idea of interference into personal networks continues to cloud consumer confidence. Jamaica’s exposure to a technology that dominates the North America, Japan and other powerful countries is projected to add quality and convenience to the lifestyle of the citizens. However, as a result of a recent report by one of the countries major newspaper, has security concerns has become issue in the corporate and financial sectors. However, according to the CEO of Copia Wireless Communications one of the country’s prominent wireless internet services providers, Mr. Darryl Wehmeyer, these allegations are unfounded. He said, “Users are not able to view confidential files and databases of the host company and neither are they able to access any information from them.”

When an individual accesses a wireless broadband service there are built- in security precautions to ensure that every attempt at access is authenticated. To ensure security of the network, access points have built in security features which include an Access Control List (ACL), 3-way handshake techniques and encryptions (WPA) which grants authorization to the users on the network… Sounds a little technical? Well providers of wireless solutions will be happy to make things just as technical and complicated for unauthorized users. These can all be used together or by themselves to prevent access.

In addition, Copia Wireless secures the networks of their customers protecting against hackers with their firewall settings which blocks any intervention from its ISP server location before it gets to the clients’ databases. Wehmeyer also states that users who access free internet service at the hotspots, however, are not protected with this firewall feature. They are advised to get their personal firewall features added to their PCs and laptops. For the most part, these hot spot users are only able to access the internet services available at that location and nothing else.

Sales Manager Anthony Henry, simplifies that situation can be equated to standing in front of a bank. You can see the sign: you can open the door, but the money is protected. Wireless networks operate on the same principle. From you computer you can see the sign (available network); if allowed you can open the door (the banks webpage), but the money (data) is protected. So if protected, information ca not be plucked out of the air.

Copia was instrumental in making the Mandeville hospital the first WiFi hospital in the Caribbean replacing a library full of books with a PDA enabling doctors to access information from any location, at any time. In addition, Copia’s client list includes, but is not limited to; Grace Kennedy Co., Ministry of Local Government, Moore’s Business Forms, First Global Bank, GKRS, Ritz-Carlton Rose Hall, Hilton Kingston, Courtleigh Hotel and Suites, Knutsford Court, and number of wireless hot spots in Kingston and St. Andrew, to name a few, and is about to ink some major networking deals that they believe will raise the bar in the provision of first- rate broadband services.

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